HIV and AIDS

Get Your Meningitis Vaccine!

First it was just sexually hyperactive HIV-positive gay men in certain parts of Brooklyn who were advised to get the meningitis vaccine. Now that the total number of cases is up to 22, they're saying all gay men in any part of NYC, regardless of HIV status, should get the injection, if they hook up ... More >>

Let's Talk About Sex, Baby (and HIV and AIDS Awareness)

It was just over two decades ago that seminal rap group Salt-N-Pepa helped usher a discussion of HIV and AIDS awareness into the hip-hop community with their single "Let's Talk About Sex" and its reworking "Let's Talk About AIDS." Continuing that tradition of outreach, last weekend Pepa was on-hand ... More >>

David France on the Plague Years: The history and survival of ACT UP

White House Announces Obama Will Skip International AIDS Conference Same Day FDA Approves Historic HIV Prevention Drug

Lots of big news from the White House yesterday about HIV/AIDS. In the morning, the White House blasted out a press release with some historic news from the Food and Drug Administration: the FDA had approved Truvada, "the first drug -- to reduce the risk of HIV infection in uninfected individuals w ... More >>

Failed War On Drugs Contributing To AIDS Epidemic: Report

The Global Commission on Drug Policy released a report this afternoon that shows how the failed "war on drugs" is contributing to the AIDS epidemic amongst intravenous drug users and their sexual partners (you can review the entire report below).The Commission, which is made up of the who's who of f ... More >>

AIDS Activism: More Than a Walk in the Park

It's back—onstage and screen, but not in the streets

Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena + Vida

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Generation HIV: Young Gay Men At Risk

There's one group that is seeing HIV rates accelerating: twentysomething gay men

Today Is The 30th Anniversary of AIDS

via​Today 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 >>

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:

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

D.C.'s AIDS Epidemic, Otherwise Ignored, in The Other City

NEVER FORGET

Light a candle on World AIDS Day

The AIDS-Babies-as-Guinea-Pigs Story Is Finally Over. Right?

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 >>

HIV Man Faked HIV Test to Get Sex, Is Under Arrest

GOD BLESS SAFE SEX

A priestly commemoration and candlelight vigil

Why Can't I Leave My Boyfriend Tied Up While I Go the Movies?

Bob Kohler, Gay Rights Pioneer, 1926-2007

HIV on the Rise Among Young Gay Men

Green Card Negative

We haven't been able to keep out immigrants based on their HIV status. But should we worry about it?

More Beenie Man Shutdown

Survivor

Unvanquished by AIDS, choreographer charges into new century

The HIV Watchers

Aspects of proposed bill meet stiff resistance

Have AIDS, Must Travel

A change in the way programs are funded affects local HIV/AIDS services

Morning Report 12/5/05
The Gloves Are Off

1983

AIDS: The Agony of Africa

Part 1: The Virus Creates a Generation of Orphans

The Long Road to Washington

As AIDS kills black America, activists try to raise awareness a step at a time

AIDS Is Not Over: A Pioneering Gay Rights Activist Speaks Out

Apocalypse Now

Janetgate 2004: Black sexuality awaits its Foucault—but three books fill the gap for now

The Normalizing Heart

How AIDS plays have changed since Larry Kramer raged

Abject Lessons

Public Schools Accused of Skimping on HIV Education

Muffling the Left

Watchdog Reveals Effort to Gag Anti-Bush Causes

Killer Pricing

A Breakthrough AIDS Drug Comes to Market—at a Price Few Can Afford

Magic Elixir

The NBA Great Dishes Out a PR Assist to a Besieged Drug Behemoth

The State of Oral Sex

A New Debate Over Safety in Sucking

Giving AIDS the Red Light

Kolkata Sex Workers Earn Respect and Protection From Fighting Disease

Personal Crisis

Acting Up Again

AIDS Activism Goes Global

An Epidemic Change

World AIDS Day Theme Focuses on Men and HIV Prevention