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Sunday, July 20
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Source: TIME , AFP , Daily Dish , Associated Press , Seattle Times , IAS press release , Xtra.ca A two-decade ban on people with HIV visiting or immigrating to the United States will end soon through a Senate bill aimed at fighting AIDS and other diseases in Africa and other poor areas of the world. LGBT advocates, commentators, and international health advocates hailed a vote Wednesday by US senators to repeal the travel ban. The 80-16 vote also committed the United States to spending up to $48 billion over the next five years for the most ambitious foreign public health program ever launched...
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Wednesday, June 04
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Source: News24.com , Reuters , Advocate Kampala -- Ugandan Police arrested a group of gay activists demanding the right to HIV/AIDS treatment at an international AIDS conference in Kampala on Wednesday. "Two young women and a man stormed the conference venue uninvited and we had to arrest them," senior police commander Byakagaba Abas told Reuters at the meeting in Kampala. South Africa's News24.com reports that hundreds of activists disrupted the morning plenary session of the conference, calling for rights, recognition, and access to services and funds extended to groups involved...
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Monday, May 19
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Source: AFP , Ars Technica , Canadian Press PARIS -- The campaign against AIDS marks an important anniversary this week, bringing to mind victories of science and the human spirit but also defeats, stigma and ignorance in a combat that has claimed more lives than World War I. On May 20 1983, in a paper published in the US journal Science, a team from France's Pasteur Institute, led by Luc Montagnier, described a suspect virus found in a patient who had died of AIDS. In the absence of a known infectious agent, AIDS was truly terrifying, as an essay on the anniversary in Ars Technica points out...
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Monday, May 19
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Source: Business Wire via EarthTimes WASHINGTON -- Nearly one in four gay and lesbian adults lack health insurance and are nearly twice as likely as their heterosexual counterparts to have no health insurance coverage, a recent survey finds. 22 percent of gay and lesbian survey respondents reported having no health insurance, compared to only 12 percent of heterosexual adults in the survey. "We know the problem of the uninsured has reached crisis proportions in this country and, unfortunately, this survey shows that the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community is today at greater...
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Monday, May 19
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Source: Dallas Morning News , Associated Press via Houston Chronicle Prosecutors convinced a Dallas County jury this week that HIV-positive saliva should be considered a deadly weapon. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and countless doctors say no one has ever contracted the virus from spit. And that's why several AIDS advocacy groups and many individuals contend that the 35-year sentence Willie Campbell received Wednesday for spitting into the mouth and eye of a Dallas police officer was excessive. Willie Campbell spit into the eye and open mouth of a Dallas police officer...
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Saturday, May 17
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Source: Between the Lines The National LGBT Cancer Network is responds to the unique needs of cancer survivors in the US LGBT community. "It is remarkable to me that there are so many more people confronted with cancer today and no national registry collecting data on the LGBT segment of that population," said Liz Margolies, founder and executive director of the organization. According to its website, the group offers "consultations, training, and presentations for healthcare facilities, schools, conferences, and social service organizations on a variety of topics related to LGBT...
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Tuesday, May 13
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Source: HRC press release , Associated Press Washington, DC -- Calling it "first step toward establishing a nationwide set of standards to reduce discrimination and ensure quality hospital-based health care," two LGBT advocacy groups yesterday released a report that rates hospitals on a set of standards of patient care for lesbian, gay, bi, or transgender Americans. The report was compiled by Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC), the nation’s LGBT civil rights organization, and the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association , the nation's largest association of GLBT healthcare professionals...
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Tuesday, April 15
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Source: BBC News , Glasgow Evening Times , Press Association Gay activists today demanded of Scottish government chiefs that they be allowed to donate blood. Gay and bisexual men in the UK are banned from giving blood because transfusion chiefs believe it poses an increased HIV risk. Campaigners appeared before Scottish Parliament's petitions committee today calling for the "blanket ban" on this group to be lifted in Scotland. Pressure on the Scottish Government comes from gay rights groups, the National Union of Students and LibDem MSP Ross Finnie - who claim the rules on blood donation...
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Sunday, April 06
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Source: Independent Online , Times (South Africa) , Frost Illustrated , News24 Cape Town, South Africa -- The retired Archbishop of Cape Town and Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu paid glowing tribute Wednesday to anti-apartheid and gay rights activist Ivan Toms. He said Toms had been physically small, "But what a dynamo for goodness, for justice, compassion," he said. "He stood up for justice too against the awful wind of homophobia, as a gay person comfortable with his sexuality... "I am thankful to God that he touched me, and I am a better man than I would have been without...
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Wednesday, April 02
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Source: Bangkok Post , Wikipedia , Reuters A woman (left) chats with katoey at a Bangkok cafe Flickr photo by Bart Morane The Public Health Ministry has temporarily banned testicle-removal surgery at hospitals and clinics nationwide following a call by a gay rights group to step up measures against such commercial castration for young transsexuals. Pipat Yingseree, chairman of the ministerial committee overseeing hospitals and clinics, said yesterday the decision would be enforced from today. ''Despite having their parents' consent for the surgery, panel members still unanimously agreed...
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Monday, March 31
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Source: Globe and Mail , Associated Press via Cleveland Leader VANCOUVER -- A harrowing encounter between an HIV-positive Canadian traveling to the United States and a U.S. border guard at the Peach Arch crossing near Blaine, Wash. has helped thrust a long-standing but little-known law back into the political ring. The U.S. Senate is expected to vote next month on a bill proposed by Massachusetts Senator John Kerry that would lift what he calls a Draconian travel ban that has caused thousands of Canadians and other foreigners to be refused entry to the United States because they have the virus...
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Wednesday, March 26
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Source: Associated Press via Seattle PI , Independent Online , Mail & Guardian Cape Town health director Ivan Toms after he was awarded the Order of the Baobab in Bronze. photo via Cape Times Cape Town, South Africa -- Ivan Toms, a South African anti-apartheid and gay rights activist who played a key role in the campaign to end conscription of young white men to bolster the racist apartheid security forces has died. He was 55. He was found dead in his Mowbray home on Tuesday, police said. He died of meningitis, Cape Town city manager Achmat Ebrahim said on Wednesday. A "devastated"...
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Wednesday, March 26
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Source: Medical News Today The odds of substance use for lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) youth are on average 190 percent higher than for heterosexual youth, according to a study by University of Pittsburgh researchers published in the current issue of Addiction. What's more, for some sub-populations of LGB youth, the odds were substantially higher, including 340 percent for bisexual youth and 400 percent for lesbians, researchers found. "Homophobia, discrimination and victimization are largely what are responsible for these substance use disparities in young gay people," said Michael...
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Friday, March 21
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Source: Washington Blade , New York Times , Associated Press via Yahoo News ATLANTA -- After reaching its deathbed at the turn of the century, syphilis is once again a “significant burden” in the U.S., with gay and bisexual men making up the majority of domestic syphilis cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. U.S. syphilis cases climbed for the seventh straight year in 2007, and increases in the disease among gay men and blacks largely contributed, government researchers reported at a conference last week. Screening for sexually transmitted infections is a critical...
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Friday, March 21
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Source: New Republic , Stanford Daily Porn star and producer Michael Lucas spoke at Stanford last month about safe sex, but his neocon political views generated controversy both before and during the talk Stanford Daily photo by Mehmet Inonu About 50 students gathered last month at Stanford for a lively, candid discussion with gay pornographic actor, activist and entrepreneur Michael Lucas. During a lengthy question and answer session, students inquired about his personal views and challenged him on his controversial beliefs. Michael Lucas discussed sexual health and AIDS prevention in the adult...
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Wednesday, March 19
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Source: Washington Blade The influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week voted 18-3 to approve legislation calling for repeal of a controversial travel and immigration ban on people who test positive for HIV. A bipartisan group of senators backing efforts to eliminate the HIV ban added language securing its repeal to a sweeping and highly popular bill that would reauthorize the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR. The PEPFAR bill, which the Foreign Relations Panel passed March 13, would provide up to $50 billion for AIDS-related medical care and prevention programs...
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Tuesday, March 11
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Source: Associated Press and BBSNews Gay-rights activists are hoping to use a global AIDS relief bill supported by the Bush administration to repeal a 15-year-old law restricting travel to the U.S. by HIV-positive people. Activists oppose the near-ban as discriminatory since HIV is the only medical condition singled out in the Immigration and Nationality Act for inadmissibility. Since 1993, the INA has designated HIV as grounds for inadmissibility to the US. A cumbersome waiver option is available to those wishing to enter this country, but the process is highly restrictive. These obstacles result...
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Monday, March 10
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Source: The Age Sydney -- A NEW report on HIV predicts a more than 70% increase in new infections in the Australian state of Victoria by 2015 if nothing fresh is done to curb the spread of the disease. Many people have little recollection of the background of the epidemic in Australia, so it is worth revisiting some of these facts. In 1983 a new disease, AIDS, arrived in Australia. Its cause was unknown and there had been many deaths in the US among male homosexuals, intravenous drug users and, for some strange reason, immigrants from Haiti. There were claims of a new "black death" about...
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Friday, March 07
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Source: Reuters TUNIS, March 7 (Reuters Life!) - Homosexual men living with HIV/AIDS In the Arab world face a twin taboo, but Karim doesn't look like someone burdened by stigma. Smiling and self-assured, the healthy looking Tunisian says his peace of mind comes from accepting what he cannot change, living in the moment and taking care to present a normal face to the world. The 34-year-old draws the menace from his infection by seeing it as his offspring. "Personally, I accept the illness. I consider the virus my little baby. Together, we make up the same person," he said. Karim, one...
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Tuesday, March 04
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Source: BBC News , GayWired , The Sword , Angel's City Devil photo: BlakeMason.com (NSFW) where condoms are always used Porn producer Chi Chi Larue urges a boycott of porn titles that feature bareback sex photo via: Angel's City Devil Three gay porn films have been withdrawn from sale in Britain following an investigation by the BBC program Newsnight. The report looked into the health risks of so-called bareback gay porn, which shows men having unprotected sex. It follows concerns within the gay community that performers are being infected with HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases...
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Friday, February 29
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Source: Washington Blade The State Department on Feb. 15 ended its longstanding policy of automatically rejecting candidates for the U.S. Foreign Service if they test positive for HIV, saying officials will now assess each candidate on a case-by-case basis to determine if their HIV status enables them to be deployed for overseas assignments. The policy change came less than two weeks before a lawsuit filed by a gay man who was denied entry into the Foreign Service because of his HIV status was scheduled to go to trial in U.S. District Court in Washington. “Now people like me who apply to the Foreign...
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Thursday, February 28
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Source: Gay City News and Advocate The New York City Department of Health is reporting a 60% increase in the number of syphilis cases in 2007 over the previous year in 2006, with much of that growth occurring in gay and bisexual men "Whichever way you choose to spotlight it or put your magnifying glass on it, syphilis is increasing in New York City," said Dr. Susan Blank, assistant commissioner in the department's Bureau of Sexually Transmitted Disease Control. The health department will report 927 syphilis cases in 2007 compared to 578 cases in 2006. Syphilis cases went from 621...
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Wednesday, February 27
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Source: San Jose Mercury News , Bay Area Indymedia The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to oppose the Food and Drug Administration's lifetime ban on blood donations by gay men and to encourage their federal lobbyists to work to overturn the ban. Supervisors said they took the largely symbolic step, proposed by openly gay Supervisor Ken Yeager, because major blood banks say they can screen for HIV infection far better now than when the ban was imposed in 1983. Current food and drug administration rules, in effect since then, prohibit any man who’s had sex with...
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Wednesday, February 20
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Source: Xinhua BEIJING, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- China is to work out a HIV/AIDS prevention policy this year to combat the rising incidence of HIV/AIDS in the country's gay population, the Ministry of Health said here Wednesday. The policy will incorporate detailed HIV/AIDS prevention measures for MSM (men who have sex with men) including extending the use of condoms, according to the ministry's work plan for disease prevention and control in 2008. China has decided to intensify its AIDS intervention campaign on MSM by carrying out AIDS prevention training among the gay population nationwide...
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Tuesday, February 19
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Source: Boston Globe Boston -- Saying the state ignored its own rules, the Massachusetts Appeals Court today ordered MassHealth to revisit its decision not to pay for surgery for a teenager who developed a hump on her neck from HIV medications. Ashley Shaw's doctors at Children’s Hospital Boston said in 2004 that she needed to get the large pad of fat removed from her neck because it was changing her posture, giving her headaches, and leading her to be withdrawn from others. The day before surgery, MassHealth notified Ashley’s mother, Elizabeth Shaw, that it would not pay for the liposuction...
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Friday, February 15
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Source: Idaho Statesman and Spokesman Review BOISE, Idaho -- The state attorney general's office has issued a nonbinding opinion that the decision by the Moscow City Council in north-central Idaho to extend domestic partner benefits to city employees violates the Idaho Constitution. Sen. Russ Fulcher, R-Meridian, requested the opinion soon after Moscow approved extending the benefits in December. "I would just like to see them follow what the voters of the state of Idaho said when they passed the marriage amendment," Fulcher told the Idaho Statesman. A conservative group, Idaho Values...
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Friday, February 01
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Source: Associated Press via MSNBC , Reuters , and AFP via Google GENEVA -- Using a condom is still the safest protection against AIDS, United Nations health agencies said Friday after Swiss researchers claimed patients on retroviral drugs do not transmit the virus. UNAIDS and the World Health Organisation said in a joint statement that they "strongly recommend a comprehensive package of HIV prevention approaches, including correct and consistent use of condoms." People taking anti-retrovirals can have undetectable amounts of HIV virus in their blood "at certain stages of their treatment"...
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Thursday, January 31
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Source: San Jose Mercury News San Jose, Calif -- In a move believed to be the first by a college campus in the nation, San Jose State University President Don Kassing has suspended all campus blood drives because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration bars any man who has had sex with another man from donating blood. "The FDA's lifetime blood donor deferral affecting gay men violates our non-discrimination policy," said Kassing in an e-mail sent to faculty, staff and students. The suspension, which is effective immediately, applies to blood drives arranged by employees representing...
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Saturday, January 19
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Source: New York Times and Newsweek SAN FRANCISCO -- In a matter of days, it jumped from a routine press release to a medical controversy. The headlines this week about a new "gay" infection were dramatic. FLESH-EATING BUG SPREADS AMONG GAYS, said one Australian newspaper, referring to a study about an antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection affecting homosexual men in San Francisco and other American cities. EPIDEMIC FEARED--GAYS MAY SPREAD DEADLY STAPH INFECTION TO GENERAL POPULATION, shouted a press release from the Concerned Women for America, a conservative public-policy group....
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Thursday, January 17
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Source: seaQwa's Qnews from CDC press release and reports in Towleroad , Salon.com After a Monday report on cases of a kind of staph infection spreading among gay men in San Francisco and Boston [see Qnews summary ] , CDC has issued a clarification . The clarification notes that the bacteria identified as "MRSA" is "common cause of skin infections throughout the United States. These infections occur in men, women, adults, children, and persons of all races and sexual orientations, and are known to be transmitted by close skin-to-skin contact." The CDC notes that the findings...
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