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2024 State of HIV Stigma Report Politics Is Causing a Huge Problem for Gen Z’s HIV Education While knowledge about HIV is mostly stable across the United States, one generation does have a significant gap in knowledge when compared to their peers: Gen Z. Only 37% of Gen Z-aged people, ranging from ages 18 […]

GLAAD: “JD Vance’s inflammatory comments about HIV triple down on his truly revolting lies about this community and threaten public health in the most irresponsible way. Vance’s rhetoric is not grounded in science or statistical truth. It is a racist dog whistle to a bygone era that stigmatized people of color, immigrants, and people […]

By Dionne N. Walker Images—often heartbreaking ones of pain, illness, and slow death—were among the first ways the American public became aware of the HIV epidemic. Long after those disturbing 1980s pictures first made suffering the face of HIV, a Southern art exhibit on display at Buckhead Art & Company is using joyous portraits […]

2024 State of HIV Stigma Report Introduction from GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO, GLAAD This marks the fifth year that GLAAD, with Gilead Sciences and the Gilead COMPASS Initiative®, have tracked Americans’ knowledge and attitudes around HIV and HIV stigma. Ending stigma and increasing public education […]

This week, another bold step was taken toward eradicating HIV stigma with the striking down of the Pentagon’s last remaining policy impacting people living with HIV, which prohibited Americans living with HIV from serving in the U.S. military. Approximately 1.2 million people in the U.S. have HIV; 13% of them do not know it. […]

[…] largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, along with Alabama Latino Access Center, a division of AIDS Alabama connecting Latinx people living with HIV/AIDS to vital healthcare in the state, is responding to inaccurate statements by Alabama Lt. Governor Will Ainsworth. Ainsworth falsely and without evidence correlated a federal immigration […]

For nearly two years, The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation (ETAF), in collaboration with Gilead Sciences, Inc, the Health Not Prisons Collective, other national and state coalitions has been working to modernize the outdated laws that continue to criminalize individuals for their HIV status

More than half of people living with HIV are over the age of 50, and living long, fulfilling lives. These are facts and faces that don’t get much media attention, but they absolutely should. Seeing and hearing people who are living with HIV helps dispel the fear and the stigma that keeps people from […]