Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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

Oral Sex: How To Stay Safer

Most Americans ages 15-24 -- some 66 percent -- have had oral sex, the Centers for Disease Control reports. But that's actually less than in the past. A reason young people have oral sex is because they don't want a kid, the CDC notes. However, a lot of young people also don't realize that oral sex ... More >>

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

UPDATE: Bed-Stuy School Principal Will Not Offer Condoms at Prom But Still Thinks Teens Need 'Em

Looks like the kids are going to be engaging in dangerous sex after all.Yesterday, the Voice reported on an interesting story coming out of Brooklyn, in which a principal of a high school there offered to hand out condoms (rubbers, jimmy-hats, whatever they're calling them these days) at the school' ... More >>

Rabble-Rousing Rubbers? Bed-Stuy Prom Condom Giveaway Causes Controversy

Prophylactics often cause polemics. And this seems to be the case in Bed-Stuy, where a high school principal's decision to pass out condoms at prom has caused quite a bit of conversation. "This is necessary," Darryl Rascoe, Bedford-Stuyvesant Preparatory High School principal, told the Daily New ... More >>

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 >>

Happy April! Time To Pay Attention To Your Genital Warts Again!

​It's April, which means one thing: it's time to sit back, take in the spring air, and become even more aware of whatever may be itching you down there.The Centers for Disease Control officially has declared April "Sexually Transmitted Disease Awareness Month," so if a short and curly hasn't poppe ... More >>

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 >>

Uh-Oh: You Might Have an STD! The Whole World Might Know, Too

​Love is supposed to be everlasting. Unfortunately for many, the only permanent thing to come out of a relationship is an incurable sexually transmitted disease. And that's why Cyrus Sullivan, of Portland, Ore., claims that he runs STD Carriers Disease Control and Prevention Services, a webs ... 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 >>

Here Are the 20 Most-Read Village Voice Stories of 2011

Somewhat unbelievably, here we find ourselves on the last Friday of 2011. We hope this year has been a good one for you. As for us, well, we can't complain too much. After all, this is the post in which we get to brag a little: The most-read stories in the Voice for the year. Whee. Previous top stor ... More >>

That STD Makes You Smell Bad, Too

​Here is a fact: You probably smell. Maybe you smell neurotic. Maybe you smell like a high school cafeteria. Maybe, if you are a man infected with gonorrhea (not recommended) you smell "putrid." In the latest of science's ongoing explorations with the sense of smell, scientists in Russia got a ... 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 >>

We Have Obtained a Copy of MTV's Standard Real World Cast-Member Contract

MTV turns 30 today. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. Last Wednesday's Village Voice cover story profiled the DeBartoli sisters, two Staten Island sisters who starred in the never-aired Jersey Shore precursor Bridge & Tunnel who signed enorm ... 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 >>

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 >>

Teens With STDs Are Lying About Having Sex, Among Other Things

​You know how kids will be kids? And teens will be teens? And adults, certain adults, that is, will be "adults" and enforce a "program" of abstinence over teaching teens that if they are going to have sex they should at least be a little careful about it and, like, use protection? Well, certai ... 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 >>

Hapless Subject Illustrates Increased STD Risk from Heavy Drinking

We can only imagine how Michelangelo Franqui feels this morning. The Queens man admitted to amNY that one time "My friends had to drag me up the stairs because I was passed out" from strong drink," and when told of a city health department report that shows that people who get that drunk stand a gre ... More >>

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

GOD BLESS SAFE SEX

A priestly commemoration and candlelight vigil

Survey: One in Four New Yorkers Has Genital Herpes

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

Syphilis Cases Double Thus Far in '07

Shots in the Dark

New worries about HPV vaccine for kids—other than foes' warnings of promiscuity

Green Card Negative

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

The Slut Shot

Will the HPV vaccine encourage sexual freedom or right-wing lunatics?

Lightning Rod, Part 2

XXX performer Christian makes waves and change in the industry.

More Beenie Man Shutdown

Survivor

Unvanquished by AIDS, choreographer charges into new century

The HIV Watchers

Aspects of proposed bill meet stiff resistance