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by Ryan Watkins
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November 23, 2010 11:49 |
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The Centers for Disease Control announced today that drugs used to treat HIV infections provide additional protection against initial exposure for gay and bisexual men. According to a CDC press release, a National Institutes of Health study indicates an average of 44 percent additional protection for those who do not have HIV and take the once-daily pill Truvada.
The approach is called pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP.
“These results represent a major advance in HIV prevention research. For the first time, we have evidence that a daily pill used to treat HIV is partially effective for preventing HIV among gay and bisexual men at high risk for infection, when combined with other prevention strategies,” Dr. Kevin Fenton, M.D., Director, CDC National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD & TB Prevention said.
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by Mark S. King
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November 08, 2010 13:35 |
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My memorial service will be fabulous, I can assure you of that. I first outlined it during the initial, deadly wave of AIDS in the 1980’s, and have edited it here and there over the years, updating the songs I would like played or the video footage shown.
Focusing on the spectacle, though, may just be avoiding the facts: if it’s my memorial, that means I’m dead. And death is a subject about which I have both too much and too little understanding. I’ve seen more than my share of it, and yet I have no greater insight than the next guy.
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by Steven Igarashi
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November 05, 2010 14:48 |
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Atlanta has been a whirlwind of activity in the past few weeks, and the coming months promise to offer us no let up. Here at AID Atlanta, we finished October with both PRIDE events and the 20th Annual AIDS Walk & 5K Run. These events are two of our agency’s biggest outreach initiatives, and they require the services of our entire staff.
In addition to our staff, these events would not be able to happen without our wonderful family of volunteers and members. Each year, these events leave me on a high; I come off of these events reinvigorated for the work we do, and thankful for the opportunities we have to serve Atlanta. In addition, I am always amazed at the huge turnouts for these events. PRIDE is one of the largest in the nation, and our AIDS Walk fills Piedmont Park and the streets of downtown Atlanta with the support of the community.
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by Dyana Bagby
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October 22, 2010 14:18 |
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Charis Books & More hosts Sassafrass Lowery, editor of “Kicked Out,” an anthology “that brings together the voices of current and former homeless LGBTQ youth and tells the forgotten stories of some our nation’s most vulnerable citizens.”
Judy Shepard, mother of Matthew Shepard, writes the introduction to the anthology.
Recently, queer youth have been targeted by anti-gay bullying leading some to kill themselves.
Read our coverage of what’s being done in Georgia and elsewhere to combat the anti-gay bullying here.
Kicked Out: Stories of Current and Former Homeless LGBTQ Youth with Sassafrass Lowrey
7:30-9 p.m.
Charis
1189 Euclid Ave.
Atlanta, GA 30307
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by Dyana Bagby
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October 19, 2010 07:15 |
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20th annual AIDS Walk Atlanta brings thousands together to raise funds in the fight against the disease.
He told his friend, “Come here. I want to show you the one with the boots on it.”
A woman standing behind him said she knew that panel of the AIDS Memorial Quilt and walked with her son and the two men toward it.
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