News 2013
LGBT Rights and Communities of Color in the South [VIDEO]
You can watch the recorded discussion here.
We held a live chat with Colorlines readers and southern LGBT organizers as part of our ongoing LGBT Pride 2013 coverage. You can watch the recorded discussion in the video above.
As the Supreme Court mulls over two historic marriage equality cases, we’re turning our eye toward the ways in which activists in the South are wedding that high-stakes fight with the ongoing struggle for racial justice.
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ADAP and the Numbers
We all live by the numbers. Gas prices, mortgage rates, even votes on reality TV shows can influence our lives. People living with HIV live especially by the numbers. We learn to monitor our viral loads and the cost of HIV medications. Rarely, however, do we praise those who help adjust those numbers. Yet praise is exactly what President Obama deserves. Last month his administration announced it was transferring $35 Million to ADAP, the federal AIDS Drug Assistance Program. This transfer will help assure that 8,000 low-income people living with HIV who were at risk of losing their HIV medications will continue to get them. This is truly worthy of praise.
Black Notables Making the Affordable Care Act Happen: Chiquita Brooks-LaSure
One in a series spotlighting African Americans who are playing an integral part in implementing the historic Affordable Care Act.
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Supporting National HIV Testing Day with New Media
With the annual observance of National HIV Testing Day (NHTD) on June 27, advocates, policy makers, healthcare providers, and others encourage people to “Take the Test. Take Control”.
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NIH Scientists Discover How HIV Kills Immune Cells
Findings Have Implications for HIV Treatment
WHAT:
Untreated HIV infection destroys a person’s immune system by killing infection-fighting cells, but precisely when and how HIV wreaks this destruction has been a mystery until now. New research by scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, reveals how HIV triggers a signal telling an infected immune cell to die. This finding has implications for preserving the immune systems of HIV-infected individuals.
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