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This report brings an academic and personal voice of the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had to-date on the fight to end the HIV epidemic, while also providing recommendations / needs from people at community-based organizations (CBOs) who serve and support the community. We underscore the disruption in access to HIV prevention and […]

HIV transmission is tied to specific high-risk behaviors that are not exclusive to any one sexual orientation. Avoid suggesting that simply being gay makes one part of a “high-risk group,” or that risk of HIV infection increases simply by having sex with someone of the same sex. “MSM” is acronym created by the […]

2024 State of HIV Stigma Report Forward by Gilead Sciences Carmen Villar, Vice President, ESG & Corporate Citizenship, Public Affairs, Gilead Sciences As we reflect on the findings of the 2024 State of HIV Stigma report, it is essential to recognize both the progress we have made and the challenges that lie ahead. At […]

[…] GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, announced today that it is partnering with Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD), a leading innovator in the field of HIV treatment and prevention medicines, to help raise much-needed awareness of the HIV and AIDS epidemic in the Southern United States. The partnership kicks off at the […]

  GLAAD Presents the HIV Stigma and Faith Summit, Wednesday, 02/24 – Friday, 02/26 Join GLAAD with the Gilead COMPASS Initiative, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, Southern AIDS Coalition, and Wake Forest University School of Divinity for this three-day summit to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in […]

In 2019, before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were 1.2 million people living with HIV (PLWH) in the U.S. with 36,801 new diagnoses that year. Sexual minority men (SMM) including gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men are disproportionately affected by HIV, making up 69% of all new HIV […]

“People living with HIV should not be treated as violent sex offenders for the rest of their lives solely because of their HIV status.” In a stern statement from Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, with the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, the department alleges that Tennessee’s decades-old aggravated prostitution statute violates the Americans […]

[…] imagine it. Within five years, the Memphis woman had gone from a bright-eyed, ambitious college student to an on-again-off-again sex worker with an arrest record and an HIV diagnosis. 2012 also delivered a brutal blow — a prostitution conviction which, due to Tennessee’s strict laws regarding people living with HIV who are convicted of […]