LGBTQ Health News & Public Health Updates

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24 05, 2019

Trump Rolls back Transgender Healthcare Protections

By JRL Charts|2025-09-03T12:20:07-07:00May 24th, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Department of Health and Human Services, director of HHS Civil Rights Office, HHS, LGBT Health News, lgbt politics, LGBTQ Health, Roger Severino, rollback Transgender Healthcare Protections, Trump administration anti-Transgender proposal|

WASHINGTON, D.C. — (05-24-19) — The Trump administration Friday, announced the cancellation of an Obama-era policy that prohibited health care providers from discriminating against transgender patients. This is latest attack and rollback of federal protections for transgender Americans. The Department of Health and Human Services announced today that they are rewriting an Obamacare regulation that [...]

27 01, 2019

Ducati Studios &, FSC Teams with Desert AIDS to Launch Adult Performer Program

By JRL Charts|2025-09-03T12:29:50-07:00January 27th, 2019|Categories: Gay Adult News, LGBT News – Breaking LGBTQ Headlines USA & Worldwide | JRL CHARTS|Tags: Desert AIDS project, Ducati studios, Free Speech Coalition, FSC, HIV/AIDS activist, LGBT adult performers, lgbt mental health news, LGBTQ Health, prEP, the next steps program, Trenton Ducati|

PALM SPRINGS, CA — (01-26-19) — The Free Speech Coalition and Ducati Studios have announced they've partnered with the Palm Springs-based Desert AIDS Project to launch a groundbreaking initiative, The Next Steps Program. The pioneering program will connect adult performers to affordable healthcare and social support services, including mental healthcare, as well as to low [...]

5 08, 2018

Let’s Talk About Prep : KC Ortiz ft. Big Dipper Captures Major Heat

By JRL Charts|2025-09-03T12:30:03-07:00August 5th, 2018|Categories: Gay Music News|Tags: Big Dipper, Gay Music Chart 2018 Week 32, gay music videos, Howard Brown Health Center, Illinois Community Heath Foundation, KC Ortiz, Let's Talk About Prep, Let's Talk about Sex, LGBTQ Health, prEP, public service announcement, Salt-n-pepa, Tobin Del Cuore|

'Let's Talk About Prep' is the new music video focusing on the use of the new 'Prep' pill being promoted to young Americans to prevent contracting HIV/AIDS. The song was recorded by Chicago-based Hip-Hop artist KC Ortiz and features Big Dipper, drag queen and advocate Lucy Stoole, DJs [X]P and All the Way Kay, Comic [...]

17 05, 2018

FDA Approves PrEP for Gay, Bisexual Teenagers

By JRL Charts|2025-09-03T12:30:31-07:00May 17th, 2018|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Bisexual teens, FDA approves for Gay teens, GLAAD, HIV infection, HIV-1, LGBTQ Health, prEP, Stroger Hospital|

FDA Approves PrEP, the drug that helps reduce the risk of getting HIV from sex by more than 90% and among people who inject drugs, reducing the risk by more than 70%. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today gave PrEP a green light for Gay and Bisexual teens who engage in unprotected (high risk) [...]

7 08, 2017

United HealthCare U-Turns and Approves Truvada Prescriptions

By JRL Charts|2025-09-03T12:20:51-07:00August 7th, 2017|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: ACT UP group, HIV activists, LGBT Health News, LGBTQ Health, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), prEP, Thomas Ciganko, United Healthcare|

By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer NEW YORK, NY — After nationwide outrage, United HealthCare last Friday night issued a reversal on its policy of denying coverage for the Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) drug Truvada to Gay men due to their high risk homosexual behavior. The drama first started a month ago with a pre-authorization denial letter [...]

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