Denise Bryan, Michael Woerner, and Drew Stoppels The Kent County Health Department has been utilizing the latest in social networking trends in an effort to recruit and organize volunteers willing to educate our community on the importance of HIV/AIDS testing. GET INVOLVED Please call: 616.632.7187 Recently,...

A gay Dutch man will be the first HIV-positive person to enter the United States since HIV travel restrictions were lifted by the Obama administration on January 5th. 45 year old Clemens Ruland and his HIV-negative partner Hugo Bausch, 50, are set to arrive at JFK airport in New York at 4.20pm local...

(Foster City, Calif.) Gilead Sciences Inc. said Wednesday its experimental four-drug HIV regimen is working as well as its current drug cocktail in a mid-stage clinical trial. Gilead said the regimen of two experimental drugs called elvitegravir and GS 9350, as well as the combination drug Truvada,...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – A bill that would provide affordable housing protection for more people living with HIV/AIDS in New York City is getting support from both chambers of the state legislature. The measure would allow the city’s HIV/AIDS Services Administration to extend a cap on rent contributions...

Researchers in psychoimmunology — a branch of medicine that studies the effects of psychological and social factors on the functioning of the immune system — have long determined that stress and feelings of being stigmatized may negatively affect a person’s health. For those whose immune...

An international meeting of experts on HIV has called for transgenderism to be reclassified as a medical condition, rather than a mental illness. The second International Experts’ Meeting on HIV Prevention for MSM, WSW [men who have sex with men and women who have sex with women] and Transgenders...

David Bahati, author of Uganda’s fascist anti-homosexuality bill, says he fears for his life following the disappearance of his cousin and after receiving numerous death threats over the past few weeks, according to All Africa.com. Bahati has reported to the Ugandan Ministry of Internal Affairs...

LIKE millions of other Americans, Dominic Bash has a Twitter account, an online wall and a network of friends on the Web. His Facebook-style profile features Mr. Bash’s occupation as a hairdresser at the Abbey in Philadelphia, lists his birthday, the names of good friends, his interests and hobbies....

The first buzz of an “anti-gay” bill that would criminalize homosexuality in Uganda was ignited this past summer. Initially, there were no talks of death penalties and life sentences, but there were talks of restrictions such as forbidding homosexuals to publish literature that advocates...

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has for the first time publicly expressed his opposition to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill recently proposed in Uganda. His statement follows weeks of pressure, numerous calls for him to speak out and a petition signed by thousands urging him to condemn the...