Activists mark 45 years since the start of the AIDS crisis with rally against Trump's health cuts

Hundreds of people brought candles to New York City’s historic Christopher Street on Friday afternoon for a vigil marking 45 years since the first reported cases of AIDS and protesting cuts to HIV care and public health programs under President Donald Trump.

The New York City AIDS Memorial partnered with numerous health and advocacy groups for a vigil and march through the historic heart of…

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AIDS Walk New York raises $1.7M this year: ‘I’m going to walk until there is a cure’

Maureen McNamara has participated in AIDS Walk New York since the walkathon began 41 years ago. In the 1980s, McNamara watched the AIDS epidemic claim the lives of friends and community members in New York. For her, trekking through Manhattan each year has become an act of remembering.

“I had a really good friend who had been in the hospital in those days. … Nobody would touch him, so it was…

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Can a single infusion of immune cells suppress HIV for years?

A new treatment regimen helping patients with blood cancer could be effective in suppressing HIV.

Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco told The New York Times that two individuals in a trial saw HIV presence lower to undetectable levels following an experimental infusion of engineered immune cells. Detailed data on findings will soon be presented in full to the…

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Jack Schlossberg wants free PrEP for all — and for his cousin to stop undermining HIV care (exclusive)

Democratic congressional candidate Jack Schlossberg is unveiling a national proposal on Sunday to eliminate out-of-pocket costs for HIV prevention drugs while accusing his cousin, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., of dismantling federal HIV prevention efforts.

The 33-year-old grandson of President John F. Kennedy, running in one of the most closely watched Democratic congressional…

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Heated Rivalry's Jacob Tierney goes viral for getting candid about his HIV diagnosis

A resurfaced clip of _Heated Rivalry_ creator Jacob Tierney from four years ago is getting praise for his frank discussion about living with HIV and the stigma he's had to deal with.

_Heated Rivalry_ ended up being a catalyst for an honest discussion about gay sex (apparently, straight people had no idea what frotting is and didn't know rimming was popular), but it turns out this is nothing…

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Ron DeSantis signs law restoring short-term HIV medication access for needy Floridians

_This story was originally reported by Orion Rummler of The 19th. Meet Orion and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy._

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed a bill that gives low-income Floridians three more months of access to essential HIV medication.

The bill funds the state’s AIDS drug assistance program (ADAP), which gets medications to low-income and uninsured…

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Budget cuts and ignorance of history are racing us towards another HIV & AIDS epidemic

I’m old enough to remember what it looked like when the government decided AIDS wasn't its problem.

I remember the silence from the Reagan White House as funerals piled up. I remember watching and hearing about brilliant sons, partners, uncles, friends, entire communities disappear while officials shrugged and said this was a “gay” disease, something that happened to people who had brought…

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After 40 years living with HIV, this military veteran sees history repeating

Reggie Dunbar II’s doctor was more concerned than he was when his HIV diagnosis came back.

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It was 1985, nearly a decade since Dunbar had retired from the military after serving from 1972 to 1977. All the news featured was stories about death, and the community around him had tales to…

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How Black communities protected each other during the early days of the AIDS crisis

In the early days of the AIDS crisis, there were no treatments for people with HIV and no pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a prescription-based daily pill or an injection that people not living with HIV can take to prevent HIV infection, to prevent its spread. On top of it all, institutional racism in the realm of public health often left Black patients out.

“Back in those days, it really…

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