2nd Annual GLBTQ Wellness Fair
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Published 01/08/2009 by Matthew S. Bajko [email protected] San Francisco health officials have traced several cases of tuberculosis to patrons of Castro gay bars, with one of the people infected a bartender in the area. The discovery has prompted them to ask 140 employees of businesses in the gay neighborhood who may have been exposed to
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Written by Jay Matthew As the music started at the World AIDS Day event here in Fresno (held annually in Fresno’s Historic Tower Theater), people were already beginning to stream in. The event opened with two songs from Fresno’s Gay Men’s Chorus—both were really funny gayed-up versions of Christmas songs, the second of which was
NEW YORK – The AIDS virus has been circulating among people for about 100 years, decades longer than scientists had thought, a new study suggests. Genetic analysis pushes the estimated origin of HIV back to between 1884 and 1924, with a more focused estimate at 1908. Click on the following link to read the story:
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My name is Michael Gerald and I am a Health Educator at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte. We are currently in the process of becoming a clinic that can provide services for the transgender community. Before beginning this transition, however, we are arranging a Focus Group that will take place here at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte
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(Los Angeles, CA) — The United States leads the global response to HIV/AIDS, but fails to mobilize the same commitment to address the large and growing epidemic within its own borders, finds a new report released today by the Black AIDS Institute. "Left Behind! Black America: A Neglected Priority in the Global AIDS Epidemic" praises
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The number of young homosexual men being newly diagnosed with HIV infection is rising by 12 percent a year, with the steepest upward trend in young black men, according to a new report. The double-digit increase in young gay men is about 10 times higher than in the homosexual community overall, where the number of
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The rates of HIV among young African-American men who have sex with men have skyrocketed, reported the Centers for Disease Control on Thursday. The CDC’s report showed that in the 33 states where data was collected, the number of HIV or AIDS cases increased among all adult and adolescent MSM in all age groups from
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Gay City News/02.27.08/03.03.08 Duncan Osborne The health department is reporting that syphilis cases in New York City shot up by 60 percent from 2006 to 2007, largely due to an increase in cases among men who have sex with men (MSM).
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A new, drug-resistant strain of the “flesh-eating” MRSA bacteria is spreading quickly among gay men in Boston and San Francisco and soon could pose a wider threat, according to an article in The New York Times. Read the story here … or you can listen to an audio report at the following link…NPR Audio
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