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National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: When were you last tested?
ATLANTA — Today, September 27, is National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day — a day founded in 2008 to mark all that has been accomplished by the gay community in the fight against HIV/AIDS, to remember the quarter-million lovers and brothers that were lost, and to renew the community’s commitment to an AIDS-free future, according to the Greater than AIDS campaign.
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CDC partners with ‘Sex is the Question’ for survey of men’s sexual behaviors
ATLANTA, GA — The Centers for Disease Control has announced it is partnering with Emory University’s SexIsTheQuestion.org to launch the most ambitious and largest effort by a federal agency to conduct a survey of gay and bisexual men in the United States.
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Appeals court rules against Georgia counselor who wouldn’t work with lesbian client
ATLANTA — It might pale in comparison to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision against Proposition 8, but the Atlanta-based Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals also ruled on another gay rights case this week.
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CDC recommendation for HPV vaccination for boys may be a tough sell
The Centers for Disease Control this week issued a finding that young boys, as well as girls, should be given the controversial vaccination against human papillomavirus, or HPV. The recommendation by a CDC’s advisory panel is designed to to protect young people from HPV infection before they become sexually active.
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CDC: HIV infections remain stable, increase among young, black gay, bisexual men
In a report issued Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, new multi-year data disclosed that the annual rate of new HIV infections in the United States has remained relatively stable.
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Inexpensive daily anti-HIV pill found to be effective as preventative measure
In a groundbreaking series of recent clinical trials, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that a pill containing either one or two anti-HIV drugs taken daily can reduce transmission of the HIV-virus by as much as three-quarters among heterosexual couples.
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Study: Gay, lesbian, bisexual teens more likely to engage in risky behaviors
A new study suggests that gay, lesbian and bisexual high school students are more likely than their heterosexual peers to engage in risky behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol and carrying guns.
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AIDS — the most destructive epidemic in recorded history — turns 30
On this day, June 5, in 1981, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta published a report of five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) among previously healthy young men in Los Angeles. All of the men were described as “homosexuals” — two had died.
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CDC study says 1 in 5 gay, bisexual men infected with HIV
Nearly one in five gay and bisexual men in 21 major U.S. cities are infected with HIV, and nearly half of them do not know it, according to a new study released Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Researchers at the CDC studied 8,153 men who have sex with men in 21 U.S. […]
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GLAAD pressures ‘The View’ to correct statements on HIV, African Americans
Refusing to be ignored, GLAAD has teamed with the Black AIDS Institute and the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), and is calling on ABC’s “The View,” to correct misleading statements about the spread of HIV among African Americans.