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By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer After the huge backlash the gay dating and social networking app, Grindr, which counts more than 3 million daily active users, announced that it would offer a feature reminding users to get tested for HIV. What followed is what sent Grindr into the lion's den as Buzzfeed exposed Grindr of [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer President Trump's proposed "American Budget", proposes domestic HIV prevention funding to be cut $34.6 million while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Global AIDS Program should be slashed by as much as $58 million. The draconian Trump 'American Budget' further would go after funding for the CDC’s overall discretionary [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer After major backlash for refusing to cover drugs used to prevent HIV/AIDS, PrEP, the Florida-based grocery chain Publix released a series of tweets on Tuesday Feb. 6 stating that the company has decided to add the coverage of PrEP for its 1,169 employees should they request it. Known for not [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer One of the America's largest supermarket chains faces backlash over the claims that one of its stores refused to cover the HIV prevention drug PrEP, for one of their employees through their insurance plan. Atlanta's director of the Fulton County PrEP Clinic David Holland, who also serves an assistant professor [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer WASHINGTON, D.C — According to the White House budget for Fiscal year 2018, cuts are being proposed to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention which covers programs on HIV, hepatitis, tuberculosis as well as outreach programs on sexually transmitted diseases education. President Trump becomes the first president since President [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer The third largest Insurance carrier in the USA, Aetna, has agreed to pay over $17 million in damages to its customers after causing the largest-ever data breach involving HIV patient's privacy. The announcement came on Wednesday Jan. 17. The case originally started during the summer of 2017 in July when [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump has fired the remaining members of the HIV/AIDS council. Not by calling them in to discuss the matter, not by sending an internal memo but by sending each member a pink slip in the mail by way of FedEx. If that wasn't bad enough, [...]
By: Jack MacNamara, Staff Writer GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — A male pilot from Glasgow, Scotland has been denied a medical certificate so that he could have worked as a commercial airline pilot simply because of his HIV positive status. The man, was garnered fame after Patrick Strudwick at BuzzFeed and then the BBC broke the story. [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer On September 27, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) made an historic announcement regarding HIV/AIDS transmission: "Today on National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day we join together in taking actions to prevent HIV among gay and bisexual men and ensure that all gay and bisexual men living with HIV get [...]
By: Jack MacNamara, Staff Writer LONDON, ENGLAND - One of Britain's most legendary LGBT nightclubs has garnered huge blow back after reports of an incident that occurred last Wednesday May 31, at the nightclub between a staff and a person in the queue to enter the establishment. According to Buzzfeed, the G-A-Y Late nightclub is [...]