Tag: hiv
Today (1 December) is World AIDS Day, and to celebrate, New Zealand’s leading HIV peer support organisation has released “I’m Healthy, and I Live with HIV” - a new video campaign to highlight that despite facing a myriad of challenges, people living with HIV can, and should, live quality,...
The UK government has reduced funding for a significant HIV prevention fund helping to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria around the world.
The move to slash funding follows last year’s pledge of £1.4 billion to The Global Fund, which has now been reduced to £1 billion.
All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on...
Sir Elton John has been presented with the National Humanities Medal for his work fighting HIV/AIDS by US President Joe Biden.
Elton John was presented the award following a performance at the White House on Friday, 23 September - leaving Elton “flabbergasted”, adding, “I’m never flabbergasted, but I’m flabbergasted.”
Presenting the...
Openly gay Welsh rugby great Gareth Thomas is defending himself against claims made by an ex-partner that he did not disclose his HIV status.
49-year-old Thomas, who retired from professional rugby in 2011, was the world’s first openly gay professional rugby player.
The former Welsh captain revealed in 2019 that he...
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing criticism from LGBTQ+ health groups after mixing up HIV and AIDS again.
Johnson’s comments were made while speaking about vaccines and advances in medical research during his address to 200 business leaders at a Global Investment Summit.
According to The Telegraph, during his speech,...
Reports have emerged from an AIDS Research Centre in Barcelona of a newly identified variant of HIV that is showing resistance to current antiretroviral drugs.
The scientific journal The Lancet Microbe has disclosed last week that a 75-year-old patient is a man who was diagnosed in 1989 and the virus...
After 25 years of service, a former police lieutenant believes that he was fired for being gay and HIV positive.
Steven Prendergast who has now filed a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles first walked the streets as a police officer back in 1995.
Prendergast who had been promoted regularly...
A recent study out of the United States has highlighted the need for trans-inclusive training for health providers, trans-inclusive sexuality education, and supportive adults, in the fight to reduce the rates of HIV transmission in trans-youth.
Published in Pediatrics the study which is titled, Transgender Youth Experiences and Perspectives Related...
