hiv/aids
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Almost 3,800 Patients Potentially Exposed To HIV & Hepatitis at New Jersey Surgery Center
After a state investigation revealed unsanitary conditions at an outpatient surgery center in northern New Jersey, thousands of patients who were treated there have been advised to get their blood tested, CBS News reports. The HealthPlus Surgery Center, located in Saddle Brook, NJ has contacted a jaw dropping 3,778 patients who received procedures between January…
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You Should Care About World AIDS Day Because Black People Are Dying and We Don’t Have To
Coming off the heels of the 2018 midterm elections, we’ll observe World AIDS Day on Saturday. We celebrated historic wins this November, electing black and LGBTQIA leaders to offices up and down the ballot. We have come so very far from where we were 30 years ago when World AIDS Day was first established, but…
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Powerful, Immersive Play As Much as I Can Brings Voices of Southern Gay Black Men and HIV/AIDS Awareness to Harlem
Currently, Angels in America, the most Tony Award-nominated play in history, is smack in the middle of its much anticipated revival on Broadway in New York City. Debuting in 1992, Tony Kushner’s iconic and surreal tale tackles external and internal homophobia, Reaganism, McCarthyism and the AIDS epidemic in a much grittier mid-’80s New York City.…
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Trump Wages War on HIV and AIDS Communities
As a black queer man living with HIV, I am nervous about the politically unstable, violently regressive times in which we live. In less than one year in office, President Donald Trump has seemingly put the brakes on 30-plus years of HIV work; in truth, the devastating impact of his reckless decisions has only just…
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Trump Fires Entire HIV/AIDS Council, While 1.2 Million Americans Are Still Infected
With just one more kick in the teeth before the end of the 1-7, President Donald Trump has terminated the entire Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, most likely because members of the board have been critical of his handling of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Six members of PACHA resigned in June because of what they said…
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Miss South Africa Dragged for Wearing Gloves With HIV-Positive Orphans
I can’t roll my eyes hard enough over this one. Miss South Africa has sparked the ire of the internet after images emerged of her wearing gloves while visiting an orphanage for HIV-positive children in Johannesburg. Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, whom the Daily Mail identifies as mixed race, posted a photo of herself wearing white medical gloves…
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How Black Moms and Daughters Can Fight to Reduce HIV Rates
The statistics are well-known. African Americans bear the heaviest burden of HIV infection of all racial or ethnic groups in the United States, says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And the burden of this disease is carried squarely on the shoulders of African-American women. Their rates of new HIV infections are more…
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No, Lee Daniels, We Don’t Need Another Movie About the Down Low
Lee Daniels recently announced the premise behind his upcoming remake of the ’80s sentimental classic Terms of Endearment. In the original, Debra Winger’s character dies of cancer, but in this filmmaker’s version, which also will feature Oprah Winfrey, one of the leads will have AIDS—a disease she contracted by having sex with a man who…