National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, observed every year on February 7, is the perfect opportunity to shine a spotlight on the racial disparities in HIV infection that persist in the U.S. 

The Kentucky county clerk who has refused to issue marriage licenses because of her religious beliefs will be released from jail, where she's been held since Thursday on a contempt of court charge.

HIV researchers from across the globe came together in Boston last week from March 3-6 for the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI). CDC researchers from the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention presented results of more than 30 studies. Below are some of which may be of particular interest to you.

On World AIDS Day, Tuesday, December 1, 2017 at 4:30 p.m. join the Friends of the AIDS Memorial, city and county officials and Key West residents and friends in front of the historic Key West City Hall (Formerly Glynn Archer School) on White Street. There will be a short candlelight march to the only official AIDS Memorial in the United States at Edward B. Knight Pier.

June 27 is National HIV Testing Day. It’s being billed as a day to get the facts, get tested, and get involved. Around 1.2 million people in the U.S. live with HIV, and one in eight people don't know they have it. Nearly 45,000 people find out they have HIV every year.

(EDGE) F*ck w/out Fear is the message of a new campaign by the Los Angeles LGBT Center, officially launched on Sunday, January 8, to raise awareness for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) as a safe and effective tool to prevent HIV infection. PrEP involves taking a medicine once-daily that, if used correctly, has been shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection by up to 99 percent.

Lady Gaga is continuing her jazzy period.

For Larry Kramer, it’s the 80s all over again and Donald Trump is the second coming of Ronald Reagan.

(EDGE) The Latino Commission on AIDS and the Hispanic Health Network release a national report "Illuminating the Needs of the Forgotten "Olvidados: A National Health Assessment of Hispanic/Latinos Growing Older with HIV." 

Displaying Latinos Salud’s HIV/AIDS testing sign is a matter of life and death.

Latinos Salud, a local non-profit providing HIV prevention, testing, counseling and linkage services, celebrated their 5th anniversary with two events this month. The agency’s Anniversary Bash was held at Georgie’s Alibi on January 24th.

Limited staff and resources mean that Latinos Salud can only do so much to fight South Florida’s HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Local LGBT-centric theater companies took home top awards at the 2022 Carbonell Awards at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center on Nov. 7.

WASHINGTON (AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE: In 1981, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first cases of a rare pneumonia that had sickened five Los Angeles gay men. The AIDS epidemic had begun.

A coalition of LGBT organizations in California is warning the state could become the epicenter of the disease if there isn’t immediate expanded access to testing and vaccines.

Both a symbol of progress, and a mask for differences

Ansell, a global leader in protection solutions and the makers of LifeStyles Condoms, one of the nation's leading condom brands, announced the launch of the #UniteToFightHIV, a social media campaign in partnership with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation to raise awareness for World AIDS Day on December 1. The #UniteToFightHIV campaign implores sexually active individuals to get tested, know their status and get treated while encouraging their social circles to do the same via social media.

Wilton Manors resident and HIV/AIDS activist Michael Rajner regularly speaks to the city commission about issues involving the disease. But on May 12, Rajner joined a coalition of 19 other HIV/AIDS activists in a meeting with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at her Brooklyn campaign headquarters.

Three local Democratic groups issued a joint statement condemning President Donald Trump’s alleged statements on Haitian and Nigerian immigrants.

Following its much surprised Orlando celebration involving acting legend Ed Asner, A Celebration of Friends is eyeing a move to California for its next gathering.

Beloved gay musical director, accompanist and arranger Paul Reekie died unexpectedly on Friday, Oct. 2 after an accident at his Boca Raton home. 

It has been 36 years since HIV was identified on June 5, 1981. Millions of people have been impacted by this disease, with gay and bisexual men, particularly young African American gay and bisexual men being the most affected. 

The man who admitted to killing a Wilton Manors couple in 2010 and told a judge he “was not sorry” has been granted a new trial, the Sun Sentinel reports.

Three years after his midtown Manhattan employer abruptly fired him, a jury awarded Antonio Muñoz more than $500,000 for being discriminated against due to his HIV status.

(EDGE) The overall health of millions of persons living with HIV has improved dramatically in the two decades since effective combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) first became available in the mid-1990s. In recent years, a number of studies have also documented large increases in the life expectancy of some HIV-positive persons -- especially those who are diagnosed relatively early in the course of infection and who receive treatment promptly. Now a very large study has confirmed that people who respond well to ART during their first year on treatment achieve a near-normal life expectancy.

National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day is observed on Oct. 15, or the last day of National Hispanic Heritage Month.

You may think you know all there is to know about HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention.

Every five years, Ryan White Care (RWC) requires its programs to prepare new plans to adjust to the changing epidemic. Biomedical advances, such as PrEP and Treatment as Prevention, have changed how people understand HIV. It has become difficult to separate HIV Prevention from Treatment. Florida’s RWC programs have submitted their new five-year plans. This article summarizes Miami-Dade County’s five-year HIV plan for 2017-2021.

(WB) Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont against U.S. military officials and the Vermont National Guard, challenging the antiquated, irrational, and discriminatory policies that bar individuals living with HIV from their professional aspirations of enlisting in or commissioning to the military.