People ask me about getting cancer a second time. It is just not the kind of “déjà vu” you ever want to have.

Once again, our community commemorates a World AIDS Day.

As we approach World AIDS Day this weekend, SFGN features our annual SPIRIT issue. I know that discussions of HIV and AIDS are not the most popular features in the world, but my job as publisher is to share truth not fiction, reality not illusion. 

Comments by our readers from our online outlets compiled by John McDonald.

Comments by our readers from our online outlets compiled by John McDonald.

State Rep. Carl Sciortino is planning to step down to become the new executive director of The AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts.

Recent grumbling over the WiltonNext Report and the direction of economic development here in Wilton Manors has brought about numerous conversations in the past few weeks.

Eight LGBT, immigration and HIV activist groups have come together to plead for the U.S. to not deport a gay, HIV positive Mexican man back to his home country.

Two European researchers have traced the origins of HIV/AIDS back to 1920 in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.

GetTested.com, an at-home STD testing company, is releasing “America’s Riskiest Places,” which highlights cities most at risk for contracting HIV in 2016. 

It hurts, but Elijah Manley said he is not giving up. 

Several times each month, a white bus picks up newly released ex-inmates at New York’s Rikers Island jail complex and drives into Harlem, where helping hands await at a transition program run by a nonprofit called the Fortune Society.

To encourage people to get tested for AIDS, South Florida Out of the Closet Thrift Stores will be giving away four Vespa’s to those who fill out all information and participate in a one-minute HIV test in South Florida before June 29.

Some restructuring took place recently in Oakland Park.

A challenge to the U.S. military’s ban on the enlistment of people living with HIV has been launched.

COVID has ravaged America and the world for a year and a half and South Florida has been a “hot spot” for much of that time, and never more so than right now.

Shelter volunteers and staff at the Humane Society of Broward County only have wonderful things to say about Spot (ID A651067), in fact they say he is a “spectacular” dog!

Big kitty Ricky (ID 647744) is also looking for a forever home.

Martin Shrekli, dubbed the pharma brat after increasing the price of a decades-old drug used by some HIV and AIDS patients from $13.50 to $750 a pill, said he wishes he raised the prices of the drug to more than 5,000%.

A Tony Award-winning play receiving its regional premiere this weekend offers a potent reminder of the horrors of the ‘80s AIDS epidemic.

Pope Francis has dismissed a question about whether condoms can be condoned in the fight against AIDS by saying there are more important issues confronting the world, like malnutrition, environmental exploitation and the lack of safe drinking water.

"The Best Bottoms Make the Best Tops" states New York City resident Killian James' page at Rentboy.com. James was voted Best Bottom 2014 at the Hookies, the International Escort Awards. A former accountant, James is immensely proud of the recognition. He told SFGN that he was doing quite well for himself, and that he might go into real estate after his time in the sex trade was up.

It is an organization considered life saving.

Poz Magazine, an award winning magazine and website for people living with and affected by HIV, released its annual Poz 100 list and three South Floridians are included in this year’s list.

The Mirror takes an in-depth look at conversion therapy

The Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) occurred in Seattle from Feb. 13 through Feb. 16. Several sessions focused on the relationship of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

John Byrne says he talks to people all the time that have no clue there is a pill to prevent HIV.

New governmental PrEP regulations should eliminate almost all patient expenses for PrEP.

Findings from a new study involving PrEP, the once a day HIV prevention pill, show high rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

AIDS Service Organizations are pleased by President Barack Obama's new budget, which continues funding for HIV and Hepatitis prevention and funds the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program at its current level. But they are concerned by proposals to eliminate dedicated Party D funding for women and infants, allocating those funds to Part C early intervention services instead.