Tag Archives: HIV

A message from the Centers For Disease Control: On National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, we honor the remarkable history of gay men’s leadership in the fight against the HIV epidemic. Three decades ago, extraordinary community and public health prevention efforts led to dramatic declines in new HIV infections among men who have sex with men. Yet infection rates are …

Poz Magazine has the news: The Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) has awarded more than $800,000 in three new HIV cure grants to research teams in the amfAR Research Consortium on HIV Eradication (ARCHE), according to an amfAR statement. The teams will: investigate if disulfriam, an FDA-approved drug for the treatment of alcoholism, can get dormant virus out of latency …

I am bored to tears with the entire subject, but since about 100 of you sent this last night: The American Academy of Pediatrics has shifted its official position on the contentious issue of infant circumcision, stating Monday that the medical benefits of the procedure for baby boys outweigh the small risks. In its first new policy statement on the …

Openly gay Australian gymnast and former Olympian Ji Wallace has come out as HIV-positive. Wallace, a trampolinist who won a silver medal at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, said he was inspired to make the public admission about his diagnosis after seeing an interview given by US diver Greg Louganis about his battle with HIV and being a gay Olympian. …

Orlando police say they’ve arrested an HIV-positive man after he allegedly raped a male patron in a hotel room at the famed Parliament House. Kenneth Creuzer, 48, told investigators the door to the man’s room was open, so he walked in and assaulted him as he lay on his stomach, a police report states. Leaving a door ajar and the …

This is JMG reader Mark King’s fourth installment in his series of reports from AID Conference 2012 in Washington DC. Today he investigates the giant “global village” of exhibitors in the main hall.

Interesting news out of the AIDS Conference. Scientists in the United States said Wednesday they had used a cancer drug to flush out the AIDS virus lurking dormant in trial patients’ white blood cells — a tentative step towards a cure. The ability of the HIV genome, or reproductive code, to hide out in cells and be revived after decades …

JMG reader Mark King continues his coverage of AIDS Conference 2012 with an installment that covers the protests that have surrounded the event, including when 13 activists were arrested for tying condoms and syringes to the White House fence. You’ll like the way King intermingles archival protest footage with what’s going on this week.

Elton John spoke yesterday at the 2012 AIDS Conference in Washington DC, telling the audience, “By all rights I shouldn’t be here today. I should be dead – six foot under in a wooden box. I should have contracted HIV in the 1980s and died in the 1990s, just like Freddie Mercury, just like Rock Hudson. Every day I wonder, …

One group at the AIDS Conference in DC is trying to bring attention back to the female condom for gay men. Via press release: ‘Strange,’ ‘unnatural,’ even ‘squishy’ sounding – these are just a few of the comments overheard in discussions around female condoms. Yet, listen to those who have actually used them and the conversation changes: ‘thinner,’ ‘more pleasurable’ …

JMG reader Mark King continues his informative series about the goings-on at AIDS Conference 2012. Today King teams up with openly HIV-positive Project Runway star Jack Mackenroth and chats with openly HIV-positive Voice contestant Jamar Rogers, who is one of the faces of the CDC’s just-launched anti-stigma campaign.

In a wide-ranging AIDS Conference 2012 opening speech on numerous HIV/AIDS topics, this morning Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised the campaign to circumcise adult male Africans as a preventive for HIV infection. An excerpt via White House press release: On male circumcision, we’ve supported more than 400,000 procedures since last December alone. And I’m pleased to announce that PEPFAR …

Some of the most interesting items pop up on the Department of Defense’s official YouTube channel. Clip description: Scientists at the Uniformed Services University say a bug dubbed Conan the Bacterium holds the key to creating vaccines for numerous deadly diseases such as HIV and cancer. Conan has already proven effective in killing MRSA in mice at NIH.

JMG reader Mark King reports from the first day of the 2012 International AIDS Conference. I’ll have coverage later today of Sec. Clinton’s opening speech.

British Columbia has launched an ambitious campaign to give an HIV test to every person who has ever been sexually active. The sweeping approach is an attempt to catch the estimated 1 per cent of people who are unaware they are HIV-positive and aren’t taking advantage of an effective treatment program that is available provincially. A key component of the …

Yesterday the Black AIDS Institute issued a grim report that will surely be the subject of much discussion at next week’s International AIDS Conference. HIV-AIDS is affecting black gay men in the United States on a scale unseen among any other group in the developed world, said a report issued Wednesday ahead of the International AIDS Conference. So grave is …

A new study out of Canada indicates that a recent spate of prosecutions for HIV status nondisclosure may lead some men to never get tested at all. Todd Heywood reports at the Advocate: [A] significant minority of men who have sex with men said that a series high-profile criminal prosecutions related to HIV nondisclosure had impacted their willingness to get …

The Centers for Disease Control has launched a new national campaign intended to lessen the stigma of living with HIV. Via press release: Let’s Stop HIV Together features HIV-positive Americans from all walks of life –including “The Voice” star Jamar Rogers, POZ magazine editor , and young HIV advocate Hydeia Broadbent – standing in solidarity with their friends and family, …

The International AIDS Conference will be held later this month in Washington DC and advocates of circumcision as an HIV preventive plan to pressure attendees to consider making the surgery a “priority” in the battle against AIDS in Africa. Via press release: Voluntary medical male circumcision is one of the most effective HIV prevention tools available today. Countries where VMMC …