via BLackDoctor: A national epidemic like HIV should make you look up and pay attention. Unfortunately, many people are looking everywhere except where they should. They are looking with judgment at others, they are looking with pity at statistics, and they are even looking with paranoia over their shoulders. But one of the ugly monsters […]
via BlackDoctor: More and more individuals stricken with HIV – the human immunodeficiency virus – are living longer and stronger than ever before. With PreP and TasP preventive treatments and medications circulating and new findings like Undetectable = Untransmittable, there is much evidence out there that having HIV no longer means having a death sentence. However, getting infected with HIV […]
via BlackDoctor: More and more individuals stricken with HIV – the human immunodeficiency virus – are living longer and stronger than ever before. With PreP and TasP preventive treatments and medications circulating and new findings like Undetectable = Untransmittable, there is much evidence out there that having HIV no longer means having a death sentence. However, getting infected with HIV […]
Flash back to the early years of the HIV epidemic, a small clinic in any city, USA. A young woman sits quietly in a cramped office waiting for her counselor to give her the results from recent tests. She wonders: why have they called me back. I did have sex, I guess I could have […]
According to the BBC, Eric Aniva did not disclose his health status to his sexual partners or their families.
Flash back to the early years of the HIV epidemic, a small clinic in any city, USA. A young woman sits quietly in a cramped office waiting for her counselor to give her the results from recent tests. She wonders:why have they called me back. I did have sex, I guess I could have gotten […]
Statistics from the CDC indicate that in the last ten years, "from 2005 to 2014, the number of new HIV diagnoses among African American gay and bisexual men increased 22%. But that number stabilized in recent years, increasing less than 1% between 2010 and 2014."
GETTY As efforts intensify to address the HIV/AIDS crisis worldwide, a popular gospel singer is using her voice to help bring about positive change. On Dec. 1, Tina Campbell of the award-winning duo Mary Mary, linked up with AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization, to commemorate World AIDS Day. The Grammy-winning singer […]
Taraji P. Henson and Alicia Keys are joining forces to fight HIV and AIDS. Henson, Janelle Monae and Laila Ali are signing on as ambassadors for the newly formed power council on Keys’ charity, Keep a Child Alive. The announcement was made Tuesday to coincide with World AIDS Day. Henson, Monae and Ali will offer […]
Charlie Sheen revealed he is HIV positive Tuesday in an exclusive TODAY interview with Matt Lauer. “I am here to admit that I am in fact HIV positive,” the 50-year-old actor said. “I have to put a stop to this barrage of attacks and sub-truths and very harmful and mercurial stories that are about me […]
Charlie Sheen is expected to disclose that he is HIV positive in an exclusive “Today” Show interview on Tuesday, a source with direct knowledge of the interview told CNNMoney. On Monday, NBC announced that the actor would be making a “revealing personal announcement” on the “Today” show Tuesday morning. The source told CNNMoney that Sheen […]
“I tell people all the time He needed a big mouth chick that was not afraid to do His work and to work in the HIV community, and that was gonna be me.” It’s not unusual to see music industry veteran and HIV/AIDS advocate Maria Davis addressing crowds loud and proud with her bullhorn, but […]
