AIDS

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); President Donald Trump reportedly told friends that he had fumigated the dinnerware at his Florida resort Mar-a-Lago after his former friend and fixer Roy Cohn, who was dying of AIDS-related complications at the time, had visited the property, according to a new book. Cohn was a controversial, hyper-aggressive lawyer whose high-profile clients included celebrities, mob bosses, and politicians, including the anti-communist Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy, during his colorful career. Cohn also represented Trump when he was a fledgling real estate mogul in New York City...

Significant progress on HIV! But it’s important to note:The 73% is in gay/bi men New diagnoses increased in some groups in 201843% of people still diagnosed late#PrEP access remains capped in EnglandWe can’t be complacent to reach #ZeroHIVhttps://t.co/3NrLzgYOdv— Terrence Higgins Trust (@THTorguk) January 16, 2020 HIV infections have declined a whopping 71 percent among gay and bisexual men in the United Kingdom since 2014, according to new figures from Public Health England. Health officials believe the decline is due largely to the introduction of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). However, the drug...

New blood donation rules that allow gay and bisexual men to give blood if they have abstained from sex for three months have not changed rates of infected blood. Just seven out of 2 million blood donations made in England, Scotland and Wales in 2018 were infected with HIV, Katy Davison of Public Health England revealed in a presentation in San Antonio, Texas, New Scientist reports. The number was up from the year before – by just one. Six donations were infected with HIV in 2017, during which time gay...