News 2015
AIDSVu Launches 1st Site to Visualize HIV Care Continuum
HIV Continuum
AIDSVu is an interactive online map illustrating the prevalence of HIV in the United States. Its national, state and local views allow users to visualize the HIV epidemic alongside HIV testing and treatment centers and other critical resources. AIDSVu also lets users filter HIV prevalence data by race/ethnicity, gender and age and examine how prevalence is affected by various social determinants of health, such as educational attainment and poverty.
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The HIV Test at 30: More Essential Than Ever
HIV Test
Early in the AIDS epidemic, there was so much we didn't know — what caused the disease, how it was spread or how to treat it. But, once scientists were able to isolate and establish a virus — HIV — as the cause of AIDS, that all began to change.
New Study Debunks Myths of NYC's LGBT Youth Who Trade Sex For Survival
LGBTQ Youth, YMSM, and YWSW face survival sex.
A new study released by the Urban Institute paints one of the more in-depth pictures of LGBT youth in New York City who trade sex for survival. The report is the first in a series to present findings based on in-depth interviews with nearly 300 young people whose median age was 19. And so far, those findings are debunking some of the more commonly held myths surrounding who does sex work.
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High Costs Of HIV Drugs On Some Illinois Insurance Plans May Be Discriminatory, Say Advocates
John Peller, President and CEO, AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Two major insurers are charging much more than others for several common HIV and AIDS medications in Illinois, drawing complaints from AIDS advocates that the companies may be trying to discourage high-cost patients from choosing their plans on the federal health insurance marketplace.
Doc Film Wants Trans Women to Shout: 'I'm Still Here!'
Miss Major Griffin Gracy, who came out as transgender during the nascent LGBT rights movement in the late 1960s is the subject of a new documentary film called "Major!"
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, who goes by "Miss Major," has spent her long life at the intersection of struggles around race, gender and sexuality in the U.S. Born in 1940 in Chicago, Griffin-Gracy came out as transgender during the nascent LGBT rights movement in the late 1960s. She was at Stonewall when New York City police raided the bar in 1969, setting off what became known as the Gay Liberation Movement. And she was incarcerated at Attica in 1971 when riots broke out and inmates demanded better living conditions.
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