#meningitis

Efforts to avoid stigma and homophobia could be keeping us silent when we need to be speaking out.

Health officials advise men who have sex with men, those with HIV and college students to get vaxxed against meningococcal disease.

“What happened to Holly Barlow-Austin was not an isolated incident,” claims the Texas lawsuit against a for-profit jail.

The vaccine may inform future research into a gonorrhea-specific vax.

New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago have had clusters of the potentially fatal, vaccine-preventable meningococcal disease.

The national health organization’s 2017 advisory report now includes advice on 13 vaccinations for U.S. adults.

Health officials push vaccination for all men who have sex with men in or planning to visit the area and all HIV-positive MSM statewide.

Six men in Chicago have contracted meningitis since June. One has died; all of them are men who have sex with men (MSM); and black MSM are at...

Kyle’s viral load was undetectable. He was the healthiest person I knew. I never imagined meningitis would kill him.

Three gay or bisexual men, all of them HIV positive and in New York City, have contracted invasive meningococcal disease since August 24

Rates of invasive pneumococcal disease are markedly higher among people living with HIV when compared with HIV-negative people.

Two of the men were HIV positive.

How to Beat an Outbreak: Part 1

An LGBT activist seeks updated recommendations to expand meningitis vaccination.

LGBT activists started the petition in response to the recent bacterial meningitis outbreak among MSM.

He said there were no new cases since February.