Health, HIV & Addiction Topics in the LGBTQ+ Community

HPV infections which persist can lead to some forms of cancers or cause genital warts

Access to health care under ACA has brought huge benefits to those at risk of and living with HIV.

LGBT panel at SXSW discusses how the community is driving digital health innovation

Ward 86 at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center has launched Golden Compass, a new program to meet the health needs of the increasing population of HIV patients who are growing older.

An HIV-positive advocate has been named this year’s Mr Gay New Zealand for raising community awareness around the virus. Charlie Tredway beat out nine other finalists for the win, and will now represent the country at the Mr Gay World Finals in Spain later this year.

David France’s How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS is a complementary work of history to the 2012 documentary of the same name that documented the early years of the AIDS epidemic to the successful discovery a decade later of combination drug therapies that brought people with AIDS from the brink of death back to life.

In late 2014 I received an email from one of New York City's largest sex parties for gay men. Usually, the email would have contained this: a time, an address, a dress code, the price. The party had long been condoms-only, but a new safe-sex provision had just been added: "If you do have condomless sex it is assumed that you are on PrEP/Truvada or undetectable."

When they were diagnosed, HIV/AIDS was seen as a death sentence: the Grim Reaper. But medical science eventually found ways to hold AIDS back. Long-term survivors, some now feeling a survivor’s guilt, recall preparing to die – and remember the many who did.

San Francisco’s Positive Force offers hope, healing, and happiness for men living with HIV.

The laws, they say, are unnecessary as well as dehumanizing for the tens of thousands of people with HIV, many of whom are able to manage their disease now and pose virtually no risk to others. 

With open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act having just recently closed for 2017, many have healthcare at the forefront of their minds. For those in the queer community, once you have made it through the Labyrinth – insurance providers and Medicaid eligibility; bronze, gold, silver or platinum (are we talking Mariah Carey album sales … Continued

All Americans have benefitted from the expansion of healthcare access under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Sharp annual increases in healthcare costs have been tamed, at least for the last few years.

“I knew I was doing something of substance, but it’s really overwhelming.” In an exclusive interview with BuzzFeed News, Greg Owen reveals the story behind Britain’s largest ever drop in HIV transmissions.

Overall progress against HIV continues, but some groups are being left behind.

Earlier this month, Poz magazine’s Benjamin Ryan drew attention to a concerning new study out of Northern California’s heath system: Using data gather

Generic PrEP purchased online is being credited with plunging rates of new HIV infections among gay men in London

We find ourselves inspired by the amazing work of Cristian Galarza, a Mexican advocate and a #BlueRibbonBoy.