Pulse Radio network is reporting that a panel of experts yesterday (May 15th) urged the Food and Drug Administration to approve a home test would allow people to test themselves for the HIV virus that causes AIDS. The Blood Products Advisory Committee voted unanimously that the OraQuick In-Home Test was safe and effective and that any benefits […]
WASHINGTON — American consumers may soon be able to test themselves for the virus that causes AIDS in the privacy of their own homes, after…
HIV/AIDS remains one of the most-harrowing global crises of present times, with entire nations doing their best to combat the spread of the disease. SEE ALSO: HIV/AIDS In America: Black AIDS Institute Is Winning The War According to data from the UNAIDS organization and the CDC, 34-million people are living with HIV/AIDs globally. In the […]
Andre Davis, a former professional wrestler, who went by the names Gangsta of Love and Sweet Sexy Sensation, has been sentenced to 32 years in prison for having sex with women without telling them that he’d tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS. SEE ALSO: Welfare Office Bans Pajamas Davis, a 29-year-old man, was […]
Government-funded researchers tested AIDS drugs on hundreds of foster children over the past two decades, an Associated Press review has found. SEE ALSO: How Jerry Sandusky Played The New York Times Worst Kardashian Lawsuits
In his 2005 hit, “Heard Em’ Say,” Kanye West rhymed: “And I know the government administered AIDS/ So I guess we just pray like the minister say.” Kanye’s not the only black person who believes the Feds are behind this devastating disease. The Rand Corporation reported in a study that, of the 500 black participants […]
President Obama pledged to help 6 million people in countries hardest hit by HIV, by helping to provide greater access to antiretroviral drugs by the end of 2013 during a World AIDS Day event in Washington, The Daily Beast reports. RELATED: AIDS DAY Powerfully Personal for Larger-Than-Life Alvin Ailey During his remarks, Obama stressed that […]
In 2006 William Brawner revealed in a magazine article that he had AIDS. The news shocked his friend and former Howard University classmates. Brawner was somewhat of a ladies man and was so in denial of his status that he often practiced unprotected sex. SEE ALSO: World Records Broken In 2011 Now he is on […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials said Thursday they are recommending that any person living with HIV be offered AIDS drugs as soon as they are diagnosed with the virus, an aggressive move that has been shown to prolong life and stem the spread of the disease. Standard practice has been to have patients put […]
British reporters have revealed a shocking religious practice that may have cost the lives of six HIV-positive patients in England.
An HIV/AIDS prevention agency in Harlem has launched a new campaign concentrating on a demographic that is not normally targeted: black heterosexual men. Its campaign posters can be seen throughout Central Harlem, East Harlem and the South Bronx, where its other branches are located. The poster, illustrating a brawn, black male standing poised is currently […]
Hormonal contraception may increase the chances of transmitting HIV between sex partners, according to a new study conducted in Africa. Researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle conducted a study on 3,790 women in Kenya, Botswana, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. They found that the women using hormonal contraceptives were twice as […]
