Tag Archives: World AIDS Day

Manhunt Promotes Truvada

The hook-up site Manhunt today announced that they will begin promoting the usage of Truvada, which was recently approved by the FDA as a daily HIV preventive for high-risk populations. Via press release: Manhunt has partnered with Gladstone Institutes’ Dr. Robert Grant and The Fenway Institute to assure that the information conveyed is accurate and consistent with peer-reviewed published science. …

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Bill Donohue On World AIDS Day

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Obama Issues World AIDS Day Statement

“Today, we reflect on the strides we have taken toward overcoming HIV/AIDS, honor those who have made our progress possible, and keep in our thoughts all those who have known the devastating consequences of this illness. The road toward an AIDS-free generation is long — but as we mark this important observance, let us also remember that if we move …

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New From The CDC

As part of their World AIDS Day project, today the CDC issued a report noting that that 25% of new HIV cases annually are among young people ages 13 to 24. Almost half of these 12,000 newly-infected youths are African-American males. An estimated 60% of all cases do not know they are HIV+.  Read more.

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Opening Next Week In Manhattan

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NEW YORK CITY: Thirteen “Robin Hoods” Arrested In World AIDS Day Protest

[Photo Credit: Julie Turkewitz] Thirteen AIDS activists were arrested in downtown Manhattan today in a joint protest organized by Housing Works, Occupy Wall Street, and others. Among their demands is the institution of an unprecedented tax on millionaires with the revenue specifically directed to fight HIV/AIDS. Via press release: In the tradition of the working-class hero of Sherwood Forest, the …

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Sen. Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill To Offer “Prize Fund” To Lower HIV Costs

Our favorite socialist has issued a typically blistering call for lower HIV drug costs. On the official site of Sen. Bernie Sanders, he discusses his innovative HIV drug bill. (My bolding.) By allowing patients to purchase generic versions of HIV/AIDS medicines, the bill would lower prices dramatically. In place of revenues from high prices for prescription medicine, the innovator of …

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Tonight In Manhattan

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Obama: We Must Make Young Black Gay Men Know Their Lives Matter

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Wendy Williams For World AIDS Day

NOTE: The above clip was sponsored in part by Gilead. Yesterday I reported that the controversial AIDS Healthcare Foundation had “occupied” Gilead’s headquarters near San Francisco in order to protest the sky-high cost of Gilead drugs like Atripla, which can cost as much as $15,000 annually.

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In The Life: 30 Years Of AIDS

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It Gets Betterish – AIDS Test

NFSW (language).

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White House Observes World AIDS Day

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Open Thread Thursday

Do you know your HIV status?

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Membership

ABOVE: At the 1985 Xmas party described below: Me, Michael, and Barney. I also wrote about Barney here. Originally posted May 2004. Reposted for World AIDS Day.Membership Michael didn’t look good. We were at his annual Christmas Luau party. Tons and tons of people in the house and the backyard. Standing in his kitchen, wearing a grass skirt and a …

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December 1st At Zuccotti Park

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David Cameron For World AIDS Day

I missed this message from Britain’s Prime Minister yesterday. “We have made a lot of progress in fighting HIV and AIDS so far and I believe that by working together, we can help reduce the stigma, reduce the number of new infections and enable those living with HIV to lead full productive and happy lives.”

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Membership

ABOVE: At the 1985 Xmas party described below: Me, Michael, and Barney. I also wrote about Barney here. Originally posted May 2004. Reposted for World AIDS Day.Membership Michael didn’t look good. We were at his annual Christmas Luau party. Tons and tons of people in the house and the backyard. Standing in his kitchen, wearing a grass skirt and a …

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A Day With HIV In America

Via press release: POSITIVELY AWARE, a leading magazine devoted to HIV treatment, today announced that “A Day With HIV In America,” a photo essay published in the new November/December 2010 issue of the print magazine, is viewable online, tying in with World AIDS Day on December 1. Taken in cities and towns around the country on September 21, 2010, this …

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Once, When We Were Heroes

Bilerico contributor and AIDS activist Mark S. King remembers the worst of the plague years for World AIDS Day. Watch this, please.

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