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Britain Allows Some Gay Men to Donate Blood -- Why Not the US?

Britain is reversing its ban on gay men donating blood, but there's a catch: Homosexual blood donors have to swear they haven't had sex with another man in the past 10 years. British health officials are expected to implement the change in the coming weeks, reversing a decades-long ban that gay rights advocates had...

More Families Are Adopting HIV-Positive Children

The immediate task might be coaxing a toddler into one more swallow of nasty-tasting medication. Longer term, there are tough choices to be made about telling that child - and the surrounding community - why those daily doses may be needed for the rest of his or her life. While most adoptions present challenges, there's a...

Elizabeth Taylor's Greatest Role: Nation's First AIDS Advocate [VIDEOS]

Even more than her collections of husbands and jewels, Elizabeth Taylor's legacy may well be her philanthropic efforts -- particularly her commitment to fighting HIV/AIDS. Taylor was the first public figure to speak out against the disease at a time when it was still surrounded by misinformation and fear. "We all...

Liz Taylor's Life in Film and Husbands

Elizabeth Taylor, who died early this morning at the age of 79, had a prolific life in marriage, film, philanthropy, sickness and diamonds. A consummate Hollywood starlet, Taylor spent only 12 years of her life under the radar before she burst into stardom with her role in 1944's "National Velvet." She was truly "famous...

Transplant Patient Got AIDS From New Kidney

ATLANTA -- A transplant patient contracted AIDS from the kidney of a living donor, in the first documented case of its kind in the U.S. since screening for HIV began in the mid-1980s. It turns out the donor had unprotected gay sex in the 11 weeks between the time he tested negative and the time the surgery took place in...

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05/27/12 A win for former tenants of Tacoma's Old City Hall Source: The Puyallup Herald - Puyallup WA After four years of fighting, two former tenants of Tacomas Old City Hall have won a major legal victory against the owner.
05/27/12 Nick Jonas, Fil-Ams join 45,000 marchers in New York... Source: GMA "Aids is no longer a death sentence," proclaimed Willie Espera of the Brooklyn public library as we walked with his partner and 45,000 others around Central Park for the May 20 Annual Aids Walk New York. Joining the walk was important for Willie, who is HIV- positive.
05/27/12 New Web Design Brings In More Donations For North... Source: PRWeb Coeur d'Alene, ID (PRWEB) May 27, 2012 Tom Viola, Executive Director to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA) announced that a $5000 Grant was given to the North Idaho AIDS Coalition in honor of a BC/EFA volunteer from Idaho who now makes his living as a stage manager in the theatre community in New York City. After going through the list of over 400 AIDS and family service organizations BC/EFA funds across the country he wondered why no group "from home" was ever chosen.
05/26/12 ZIM records HIV treatment failure Source: The Sunday Mail - Zimbabwe About 8 000 Zimbabweans living with HIV could not be treated last year after they developed resistance to the first line of anti-retroviral drugs, statistics released by the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare reveal.
05/26/12 NATIONAL AIDS COMMISSION HOLDS CAPACITY BUILDING... Source: Love FM A series of capacity building workshops by the National AIDS commission continues today in Orange Walk town.

Background on AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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