Ethnic and cultural minorities

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  • "Tiger Mandingo,” Who Got 30 Years For Not Telling Sex Partners He Had HIV, Is Free 25 Years Early

    Michael Johnson, who was sentenced to an unprecedented 30.5 years for failing to disclose his HIV status to his sexual partners, was released today, 25 years early, after an appeals court condemned his original trial as “fundamentally unfair.” In a racially and sexually charged trial, he had received a longer sentence than many murderers do.

    11 July 2019 | BuzzFeed

  • Is the “PrEP4Love” Campaign Reaching African Americans?

    The Chicago-based HIV-prevention effort garnered about 41 million views in its first four months alone. And that’s not all.

    26 June 2019 | Poz

  • Australia: Targeting Asian gay men

    Diagnoses among Asian-born gay men in Australia have risen over recent years — and many of these men are diagnosed at a late stage of infection. In response, a range of initiatives exist to help tackle the problem.

    11 June 2019 | Positive Living

  • Trump’s bid to wipe out AIDS will take more than a pill

    Eradicating the virus will need to look less like a science experiment and more like a broad social welfare program.

    11 June 2019 | Politico

  • A mystery illness killed a boy in 1969. Years later, doctors learned what it was: AIDS

    The 16-year-old boy had the kind of illness that wouldn't be familiar to doctors for years: He was weak and emaciated, rife with stubborn infections and riddled with rare cancerous lesions known as Kaposi's sarcoma, a skin disease found in elderly men of Mediterranean descent. The boy, Robert Rayford, died on May 15, 1969, in St. Louis. It would be more than a decade before doctors started seeing similar cases among gay men in New York and California. In 1982, with the numbers of sick surging, the disease got a name: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

    16 May 2019 | New Zealand Herald

  • Despite Uptick, Black and Latinx People Have Relatively Low Participation in HIV Vaccine Trials

    Black and Latinx people historically have not willfully participated in clinical trials in high numbers. Medical mistrust of research and health care institutions has long been a problem for conducting biomedical research. So what's causing the racial disparities in research participation, and what are researchers doing about it?

    14 May 2019 | The Body Pro

  • Black women in the USA continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV, but there’s evidence that the gap may be slowly starting to close

    New analysis from the US CDC quantifies the number of new HIV infections that might have been prevented in the absence of racial disparities, indicating how the effects of race on HIV infection may be changing

    10 May 2019 | AVERT

  • HIV infection rates in New South Wales hit record low, but there are concerns

    The number of new HIV cases in NSW has dropped to their lowest level since 1984, but NSW Health would not say whether it will hit its target of "virtually" eliminating the disease by 2020.

    23 April 2019 | Sydney Morning Herald

  • HIV hitting Latino men in California at an alarming rate

    “One in four Latino men in the Valley in 2020 who have sex with men will test positive for HIV in their lifetimes,” said Oscar Lopez, vice president of policy, advocacy, education and communication for the Valley AIDS Council. Lopez just returned from the 2019 NHPC Hispanic/Latin MSM and Trans Latina Meeting with the CDC in Atlanta. Latino leaders met to discuss a plan of action in response to staggering numbers released in October by the CDC.

    01 April 2019 | The Monitor

  • Ten Black Transgender Women to Watch

    Whether organizing marches and protests, lobbying lawmakers or leading social justice campaigns, Black transgender women are leading the fight for equality and human and civil rights for trans and gender-nonconforming people of color. Here are ten Black trans women nationwide whom other trans women identify as making major moves.

    01 April 2019 | TheBody.com
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