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Researchers gathered this week in Boston documented the first case of an individual contracting HIV while taking Truvada as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).
Chicago's daily entertainment and LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community website, ChicagoPride.com, has teamed up with online LGBT-Friendly personal trainer and fitness finder, Right Fit for You to launc
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday released new data on the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
The Chicago PrEP Working Group (CPWG) has launched PrEP4Love, a citywide, sex-positive media campaign designed to increase awareness of PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis), a daily HIV prevention pill for HIV-negative people
Out actor Danny Pintauro says in a new op-ed that he disclosed his HIV status to his husband on their first date.
When the calendar says January, it might as well also boast "Health & Fitness Month." After all, the New Year always is the kick off to a new, or renewed, push for that perfect, sexy, sculpted body.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is relaxing its ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men.
The mission of Fred Says is to generate funding to support HIV-youth programs in order to be better funded. And after two-years of building the organization, Fred Says is finally at a point where we can fulfill that goal
Grindr, the hookup app for gay and bisexual men, has surveyed its users about using pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP – commonly known as Truvada.
Appearing Tuesday on the TODAY Show, Hollywood actor Charlie Sheen said that he is HIV-positive.
Positively Aware, the HIV/AIDS-focused publication of Chicago-based Test Positive Aware Network (TPAN) is now in its 25th year, and will celebrate that milestone downtown on Oct. 29.
Howard Brown Health Center has announced plans to open a medical clinic in the Gerber/Hart Library and Archives location in Rogers Park by the end of 2015. The new clinic is one of the new opportunities resulting from Ho
More than 2,500 runners, walkers, volunteers raised over $377,000 for 36 organizations that support people living with HIV/AIDS as part of the 14th annual AIDS Run & Walk Chicago.
On one day, Tuesday, Sept. 22, Positively Aware and TPAN are inviting everyone, regardless of HIV status, to get in the picture and participate in A Day with HIV, the magazine's sixth annual anti-stigma photo campaign.
The Chicago-area HIV legal services organization, AIDS Legal Council of Chicago, is changing its name to Legal Council for Health Justice.
A new five-year, $6.25 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will help investigators from Northwestern University, the University of Chicago and others across the city of Chicago work together to slo
The American Medical Student Association chapters of Chicago, Partners in Health Engage-Chicago and HIV Prevention Justice Alliance (a project of AIDS Foundation of Chicago) will gather Friday, Sept. 4, at 1 p.m. in the
Do you believe in miracles? One AIDS Run & Walk Chicago team does. Team I Believe in mIRAcles is rallying around their friend Ira Katzman, who will run his first 5k on Sept. 26 after experiencing brain cancer and a serie
Comprehensive sex education; gay sex with a puppet; a heartfelt coming-of-age story; Harry Potter. Dallas-native John Michael Colgin (who prefers to go by John Michael) promises all this and more in the Chicago premiere
Boystown's annual Proud to Run race steps off Saturday morning along Chicago's lakefront.
In response to the current invasive meningococcal outbreak among men who have sex with men (MSM), on Thursday, June 25, Howard Brown Health Center staff will host the "Vax and the City" Bar Crawl at local bars along Nort
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday to allow the continuation of federal subsidies through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), widely known as Obamacare, to help people across the U.S. afford health insurance.
Howard Brown Health Center (HBHC) on Tuesday announced that it has vaccinated more than 1,000 individuals at risk for invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) since a June 3 Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) alert t
Amid a growing outbreak of meningitis in the City, the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) today expanded its meningitis vaccine recommendations to include all men who have sex with men (MSM). The new recommendati