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National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

Daniel Driffin

Watch: Atlanta’s THRIVE SS co-founder featured in amfAR HIV/AIDS video campaign

Daniel Driffin, co-founder of Atlanta-based HIV/AIDS nonprofit THRIVE SS, is featured in amfAR's (The Foundation for AIDS Research) new “Epic Voices” public awareness campaign, an online video series that aims ...

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy

5 LGBTQ things you need to know today, Feb. 7

1. Today, on National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, AIDS Research Consortium of Atlanta founder and principal investigator Melanie A. Thompson, MD, writes of the disproportionate burden of HIV that African-Amer...

Craig Washington

Craig Washington: For LGBTQ elders of color, we are our own greatest legacy

We watched our bravest, our brightest fall and not get up again. The gap between what we hoped for and what we expected widened along with the obituary pages. We risked taking the conventional drugs if we could...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Feb. 7

1. Today is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. Terri L. Smith, the director of HIV prevention services for ALPA Health in Los Angeles, writes about how taking care of oneself could be seen as a political ac...

CDC releases key figures coinciding with National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

The CDC has released findings on the care and treatment of African-Americans living with HIV. African-Americans account for more than half of the 1.1 million people in the U.S. living with HIV, and for nearly h...