Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Pride battles oppression as AIDS ravages the land.

The move took advocates by surprise, since it wasn’t expected until 2021. However, the announcement has led to confusion about how soon it might be available.

The White House sent a document to Congress asking for funding cuts that could drastically harm people’s access to life-saving medications.

There are dozens of reports of devices that have combusted, overheated or caught fire and injured users.

Whites make up 27% of new U.S. HIV cases but 75% of current PrEP consumers.

Sculpture uses blood from nine gay, bisexual, and transgender men to protest FDA ban.

Under the proposal, the current blanket ban on donations from gay and bisexual men would be replaced with a policy barring donations from men who have had sex with men in the last year.

The FDA says it favors ending the nation’s lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, replacing it with a policy barring donations from men who have had sex with men in the previous 12 months.

Eighty congressional lawmakers sent a letter Monday to Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell, calling for the Department to replace the FDA’s lifetime ban on blood donations from men who have sex with men with a policy based on individual risk factors.

The Blood Products Advisory Committee will not reconvene to continue discussions or to recommend that the FDA end its lifetime ban on blood donations from men who have sex with men.