A Louisiana school teacher has been arrested for having sex with an underage student, intentionally infecting him with AIDS, WUSA9 reports. SEE ALSO: Obama Plans…
Magic Johnson checked in with TMZ and said that Donald Sterling needs to stop doing interviews and that he is praying for him. Sterling interviewed with CNN and gave a backhanded apology before attacking Magic’s role in helping the black community.
The latest glimmer of hope in the ongoing race to cure AIDS comes from an experimental new gel. Researchers announced this week that a vaginal…
As we get ready for this weekend’s Whitman Walker Aids Walks, there is some good news in the fight against HIV. Huffington Post is reporting that Doctors now have convincing evidence that they put HIV into remission, hopefully for good, in a Mississippi baby born with the AIDS virus — a medical first that is prompting […]
The incomparable Jennifer Holliday will give an unforgettable performance during the 25th anniversary celebration for Us Helping Us, People Into Living (UHU), a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing HIV infection in the African-American community, at the Arena Stage in Washington, DC on Monday, October 14. Get tickets and more info on the event and Us […]
On what would have been his 50th birthday, late rapper Eric ”Eazy E” Wright was resurrected in hologram form 18 years after losing his battle…
According to the CDC, 50,000 Americans are infected with HIV each year, and 25% of those are between the ages of 13 and 24. Sixty percent of youth with HIV don’t know they have it, despite recommendations from the CDC, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. That’s roughly 7,200 young people […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials said Thursday they are recommending that any person living with HIV be offered AIDS drugs as soon as they are diagnosed with the virus, an aggressive move that has been shown to prolong life and stem the spread of the disease. Standard practice has been to have patients put […]
Good news today courtesy of a new report from the United Nations, there has been no significant increase in the amount of people who contract HIV since 2007. From the AP:
Stadium nightclub, known as a high end strip club, isn’t exactly in the business of stopping HIV/AIDS. While the venue’s business is knee deep in sexual arousal it’s ironic that the DC government is suing a non-profit for improperly using more than $300,000 dollars funds meant for HIV/AIDS programs to help build Stadium. D.C. is […]
The 30-year battle against AIDS is an unbelievable chapter in the history of medicine and 30 years later more than 60-million people around the world have been diagnosed with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. And of those, 25-million people have died as there is no cure. On June 5, 1981, a bombshell quietly exploded […]
VIA MYFOXDC: WASHINGTON – Actor Blair Underwood is expected to cut the ribbon on an HIV/AIDS clinic bearing his name. AIDS Healthcare Foundation is opening the AHF Blair Underwood Clinic on K Street in northwest Washington Thursday morning. The clinic is near George Washington University Hospital, where clinic officials plan to admit some patients who […]
