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On May 19, 2024 AIDS Walk New York brought together more than 9,000 residents from across the boroughs to fundraise for HIV and AIDS. The walk to destigmatize HIV and AIDS has been taking place in Central Park since 1986.  Image of the 2024 NY AIDS Walk attendees The morning of May 19th began […]

[…] 09, 2019 – GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, in partnership with the PrEP4All Collaboration and over 50 LGBTQ, HIV/AIDS, and public health organizations released a public letter today addressed to Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The letter calls on Facebook to remove dangerous and […]

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 […]

[…] 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 […]