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May 17, 2012
Pregnant? Then Get an STD Test, for God's Sake
A lot of pregnant women don't get tested for sexually transmitted diseases. But a lot of pregnant need to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases, according to just released Centers for Disease Control stats. Out of some 1.3 million American women who had blood work during pregnancy, only 59 p ... More >>
Blogs
March 31, 2012
Bloomberg Health Alert: Tofu Blamed For Two Cases of Botulism
Ok, we're going to make an important distinction here: Tofu is funny. Botulism, not so funny. Tofu is a soy-based, largely flavorless paste that can be molded into interesting shapes. Botulism is a scary bacterial disease which causes cramps, choking, nausea and vomiting before death. Well, the c ... More >>
Blogs
February 29, 2012
HIV/AIDS Protestors Descend on Robert Doar's Home, Commute
And you thought your morning commute was rough. HIV/AIDS activists from Voices Of Community Advocates & Leaders (VOCAL-NY) -- an organization that advocates for the rights of HIV-positive New Yorkers -- got up bright and early this to stakeout and protest Human Resources Administration Commissione ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2012
Leaked City Document Sparks Fears And Frustrations for New Yorkers with HIV/AIDS
Sam LevinAdvocacy group VOCAL-NY at a City Hall rally earlier this year. An HIV/AIDS advocacy group has got its hands on an internal government document that the group says is cause for major concern -- and not just because the city is making policy changes behind closed doors, advocates said ... More >>
Blogs
February 17, 2012
HIV-Positive New Yorkers Protest Budget Cuts, Drug Screening Policy
Activists upset with a new drug screening regulation for HIV-positive New Yorkers are going to protest the policy today by marching to a city commissioner and asking him to take a drug test. Y'know, it's one of those protests where the activists try to find the person they're mad at -- those are fun ... More >>
Blogs
February 6, 2012
Theatre of the Oppressed Brings Homeless Actors to the Stage Tonight
Some of these folks have never acted on a stage before, but then again, this is most definitely not your traditional performance. Tonight, Theatre of the Oppressed NYC is partnering with nonprofit group Housing Works to put on a show centered around the experiences of being homeless and HIV-posit ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2011
Food Factories Clean Up Act Only Before Safety Inspections: Report
Digging into a hot dog or chowing down on a cold-cut sandwich? Regulators say many companies that make these types of ready-made foods only follow some key safety regulations right before Listeria monocytogenes inspections.
Blogs
December 1, 2011
Kevin Beauchamp and Howard Orlick on World AIDS Day
Today is World AIDS Day, the day to remember the 25 million people killed by the disease and the over 33 million people worldwide living with HIV. Earlier this year, we had the opportunity to profile Kevin Beauchamp and Howard Orlick in the Voice cover story "Maybe I Do and Maybe I Don't." Both Kev ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2011
We Would Like to Make a Motion to Institute 'Tweet That You Have Had HPV Day'
HPV: Have you heard of it? You probably have, because in the last few days and weeks it's been talked about a lot -- often incorrectly -- by people like Michele Bachmann and, most recently, tweeted about by Ayelet Waldman, wife of novelist Michael Chabon. In Bachmann's case, she's using HPV v ... More >>
Blogs
June 28, 2011
AIDS In Oral History - Looking Back at 30 Years of the Epidemic (VIDEO)
This past Pride Week has marked some amazing events, from passage of Marriage Equality in New York, to a President ducking that issue while visiting the city, to that same President marking National HIV Testing Day and preparing to host a White House Pride reception. This Pride also marks ... More >>
News
June 22, 2011
Generation HIV: Young Gay Men At Risk
There's one group that is seeing HIV rates accelerating: twentysomething gay men
Blogs
June 5, 2011
Today Is The 30th Anniversary of AIDS
viaToday marks the 30th anniversary of the first formal report of the disease that came to be known as AIDS. The disease baffled doctors and public health officials when it first appeared; described in some places as a "gay cancer," the HIV virus took three years to be identified and much longer ... More >>
Blogs
May 6, 2011
Marjorie Hill (GMHC) Responds to Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr.'s Anti-Gay March Plans
In response to Senator Rev. Ruben Diaz Sr.'s plan to hold an anti-gay marriage march at the same time as the AIDS Walk, Marjorie Hill, the CEO of Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), has responded:
Blogs
May 4, 2011
Ruben Diaz Sr Will Hold His Anti-Gay Marriage Rally the Same Day as AIDS Walk
Son, my priorities come first.Senator Rev. Ruben Diaz, Sr. is clearly unhappy about being labeled the anti-HIV/AIDS, anti-LGBT bigot that he is. After Diaz, Sr. scheduled an anti-gay marriage rally during the annual AIDS Walk (and during his own son's Bronx Week festivities), we pointed out h ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2011
Memorial Info and Obit For Trans/AIDS Activist Chloe Dzubilo
Trans activist Chloe Dzubilo--who was disoriented from medication and fell onto subway tracks two weeks ago--will not be forgotten. Her friends desperately want this message out: "We invite you to come together in the spirit by which Chloe lived her life--to invoke a world where artist/ac ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 23, 2011
Middle Brother+Dawes+Deer Tick
Trans activist Chloe Dzubilo--who was disoriented from medication and fell onto subway tracks two weeks ago--will not be forgotten. Her friends desperately want this message out: "We invite you to come together in the spirit by which Chloe lived her life--to invoke a world where artist/ac ... More >>
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February 22, 2011
Oral Sex Is Causing Cancer. But, Wait, There's a Bright Side.
Not so cute in reality.Scientists, who clearly do not want us to be happy, are again reminding us of a link between oral sex and BAD THINGS. This time, cancer. There's "strong evidence" linking oral sex to cancer, scientists have said, yet again. In fact, in the U.S., oral sex has surpassed t ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2011
Autism Via Vaccine Study is an 'Elaborate Fraud'
Jenny McCarthy is wrongA British study claiming that autism could be contracted from childhood vaccines, a cause championed most famously by actress Jenny McCarthy, has already been deemed a scientific mess full of errors, but a new report from a British medical journal contends that its inte ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2010
Mike Bloomberg and Other New Yorkers Remember Friends and Family on World AIDS Day (Video)
Today is World AIDS day, which has been observed since 1987 in honor of the 25 million people killed by the disease. There are approximately 33 million people around the globe and 107,000 New Yorkers currently living with HIV/AIDS. Runnin' Scared spoke to several New Yorkers -- from the Mayo ... More >>
Blogs
November 30, 2010
Free Things in New York City: AIDS Tests, Washington Square Park, Tomorrow
Tomorrow is World AIDS Day, which is neither a celebration of AIDS nor the day everyone in the world gets AIDS, but a day dedicated to AIDS awareness, which there will never be enough of. Like AIDS tests. Which are going to be given away for free in Washington Square Park tomorrow.
Blogs
September 17, 2010
Whooping Cough, There It Is: 2010's Big Epidemic.
While "Whooping Cough" sounds like something you catch on The Oregon Trail right before your oxen die of dysentery from trying to cross the river, it's actually a deadly cold that's currently killing babies in California right now at a rate not seen since 1955. Why's this happening, and how d ... More >>
Film
September 15, 2010
D.C.'s AIDS Epidemic, Otherwise Ignored, in The Other City
While "Whooping Cough" sounds like something you catch on The Oregon Trail right before your oxen die of dysentery from trying to cross the river, it's actually a deadly cold that's currently killing babies in California right now at a rate not seen since 1955. Why's this happening, and how d ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 8, 2010
TICKED OFF
Theater combats Lyme disease
Voice Choices
November 24, 2009
NEVER FORGET
Light a candle on World AIDS Day
Blogs
August 17, 2009
Get Ready for Swine Flu 2 with Dangerous Vaccines, Video Game
Those of us who remember the Swine Flu PANIC of '09 may be interested to learn from the Associated Press that "NYC schools prepare for 2nd outbreak of swine flu." These epidemics historically come in pairs, and the second is usually worse. AP mainly notes anecdotal portents -- "Sharing water ... More >>
Film
June 17, 2009
Under Our Skin Raises Alarm on Lyme Disease
Those of us who remember the Swine Flu PANIC of '09 may be interested to learn from the Associated Press that "NYC schools prepare for 2nd outbreak of swine flu." These epidemics historically come in pairs, and the second is usually worse. AP mainly notes anecdotal portents -- "Sharing water ... More >>
Blogs
May 20, 2009
Dead Toddler Appears Free of Swine Flu, But PANIC Persists
New York officials are saying that the 18-month-old whose death triggered a new round of swine flu PANIC, Jonathan Zamora of Queens, did not have swine flu, at least as determined by analysis of nasal swabs. To be extra sure they are sending tissue samples to the CDC. amNY reports that this announc ... More >>
Blogs
April 27, 2009
Swine Flu in Queens, Elsewhere in U.S.; Mexico Death Toll Over 100
A sickness that people get from having direct contact with pigs has now spread to kids in New York. Yesterday the Centers for Disease Control confirmed that eight children at a Queens prep school have contracted swine flu, a strain of flu common in pigs and extremely rare in humans. Only twelve tota ... More >>
News
April 1, 2009
The AIDS-Babies-as-Guinea-Pigs Story Is Finally Over. Right?
A sickness that people get from having direct contact with pigs has now spread to kids in New York. Yesterday the Centers for Disease Control confirmed that eight children at a Queens prep school have contracted swine flu, a strain of flu common in pigs and extremely rare in humans. Only twelve tota ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2009
Alomar Ex Says He Has AIDS
Roberto Alomar has AIDS, his ex-girlfriend says, and she's brought a $15 million lawsuit against the former Mets star, reports the Daily News. The girlfriend, Ilya Dali, claims that in her time with him Alomar was diagnosed by Mets doctors with thrombocytopenia purpura, often a presenting symptom o ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2008
HIV Man Faked HIV Test to Get Sex, Is Under Arrest
Roberto Alomar has AIDS, his ex-girlfriend says, and she's brought a $15 million lawsuit against the former Mets star, reports the Daily News. The girlfriend, Ilya Dali, claims that in her time with him Alomar was diagnosed by Mets doctors with thrombocytopenia purpura, often a presenting symptom o ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 19, 2008
GOD BLESS SAFE SEX
A priestly commemoration and candlelight vigil
Blogs
June 9, 2008
Survey: One in Four New Yorkers Has Genital Herpes
A priestly commemoration and candlelight vigil
People
May 6, 2008
Why Can't I Leave My Boyfriend Tied Up While I Go the Movies?
A priestly commemoration and candlelight vigil
Blogs
December 6, 2007
Bob Kohler, Gay Rights Pioneer, 1926-2007
A priestly commemoration and candlelight vigil
Blogs
November 5, 2007
'Superbug' Hits NYU
A priestly commemoration and candlelight vigil
Blogs
September 12, 2007
HIV on the Rise Among Young Gay Men
A priestly commemoration and candlelight vigil
News
June 12, 2007
Shots in the Dark
New worries about HPV vaccine for kids—other than foes' warnings of promiscuity
News
April 24, 2007
Green Card Negative
We haven't been able to keep out immigrants based on their HIV status. But should we worry about it?
NYC Life
March 27, 2007
TB or Not TB
A nurse's cough turns into a public health crisis in the Bronx
Columns
August 15, 2006
The Slut Shot
Will the HPV vaccine encourage sexual freedom or right-wing lunatics?
Blogs
July 14, 2006
More Beenie Man Shutdown
Will the HPV vaccine encourage sexual freedom or right-wing lunatics?
Dance
June 13, 2006
Survivor
Unvanquished by AIDS, choreographer charges into new century
News
April 11, 2006
The HIV Watchers
Aspects of proposed bill meet stiff resistance
People
January 24, 2006
Have AIDS, Must Travel
A change in the way programs are funded affects local HIV/AIDS services
Blogs
December 5, 2005
Morning Report 12/5/05
The Gloves Are Off
A change in the way programs are funded affects local HIV/AIDS services
News
November 15, 2005
Capitalizing on the Flu
Flu pandemic would spark enough fear to make it a greed pandemic
Specials
October 18, 2005
1983
Flu pandemic would spark enough fear to make it a greed pandemic
Specials
October 18, 2005
AIDS: The Agony of Africa
Part 1: The Virus Creates a Generation of Orphans
News
September 6, 2005
The Long Road to Washington
As AIDS kills black America, activists try to raise awareness a step at a time
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