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Source: Washington Post , Scientific American , BBC Universal HIV testing and immediate treatment for those who test positive could reduce AIDS by 95% within ten years, according to a new study. The surprising conclusion is contained in a study published online Tuesday by British medical journal The...

Source: Baltimore Sun , Washington Post , Miami Herald Many people infected with HIV are not aware of their status, partly because testing for the virus is not yet as widespread as government health officials recommend. The federal government recommended two years ago that patients in emergency rooms...

Source: WebMD , AFP , Time , Reuters There is not enough evidence to say circumcision protects men from getting the AIDS virus during sex with other men, a new study concludes, but it might cut HIV risk in predominantly insertive partners, Circumcision has been found to reduce by about one-half the transmission...

Source: Bloomberg , Reuters , Southern Voice via New York Blade New HIV/AIDS infections are observed at the highest rate among men who have sex with in the United States, according to an analysis of government data published Thursday. More than half of 56,300 new HIV infections in 2006 were in men who...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Source: Poz.com The use of crystal methamphetamine and other party drugs, such as ecstasy, ketamine and GHB, has begun to decrease among gay and bisexual men in New York City, according to new study data presented at the 2007 National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta. David Bimbi, of the Center for...

Source: HealthDay via US News & World Report WEDNESDAY, Dec. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Most men newly infected with HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) choose to have unprotected sex only with other HIV-infected partners, say U.S. researchers who analyzed data from six clinics in San Francisco, New...