PrEP News / LGBTQ Nation

Why does the UK’s latest HIV prevention campaign exclude black and Asian men?

The campaign is called HIV Stripped Bare 2018, but it leaves some of us hidden.

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PrEP users face rampant stigma & slut-shaming, study finds

The survey found that 1/3 of participants faced a negative reaction when someone found out they used PrEP.

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A man who was taking PrEP consistently still acquired HIV

Researchers have found the first case in the US of someone taking PrEP as directed who seroconverted.

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Gay Republican blames too much sex for LGBTQ suicide because there’s no ‘better time to be gay’

Suicide amongst Utah's youth has become epidemic at four times the national average. He says it's because gays have "grundles of sex partners."

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The Peace Corps is firing gay men who test positive for HIV

They refused to prescribe some of them a drug to prevent HIV infection and then punished them when they turned positive.

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Syphilis outbreak hits Palm Springs

The area is seeing ten times the national average in cases of syphilis, and doctors are puzzled as to why.

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A Seattle man contracted HIV despite taking PrEP consistently

His case is the county's second diagnosis.

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The South needs PrEP the most, so why are the fewest prescriptions written there?

And why don't some doctors know what it is and what it can do?

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CDC: We’re not getting PrEP to the men who need it

Gay men with HIV are also 8 times more likely also to be diagnosed with syphilis, the CDC reports.

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A gay doctor used PrEP on the job but his insurer balked when he wanted it for safe sex

Insurance companies are routinely denying coverage to gay men who are protecting themselves.

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