Larry Kramer — writer, advocate, “loudmouth” — helped define AIDS activism and gay life. He ruffled some feathers along the way. In the documentary “How to Survive a Plague,” Larry Kramer silences a room full of AIDS activists with just one word. The scene takes place ...

Access to sexual health services among gay and bisexual men worldwide is still essential MSMGF (the Global Forum on MSM & HIV) endorses the Consensus Statement on Risk of Sexual Transmission of HIV from a Person Living with HIV Who Has an Undetectable Viral Load. That ...

Researchers from the Dutch pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) demonstration study, AmPrEP, have found an unexpectedly high rate of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in participants tested for it at baseline. The HCV prevalence seen was more typical of that seen in HIV-positive gay men rather than the ...

Dramatic decrease of funding from donors for HIV and TB responses and inability or unwillingness of governments to finance such programs has devastating effects on key affected populations (KAPs) in middle-income countries (MICs) – sex workers, men who have sex with men, people who use ...

Risk calculator developed by UCLA and Los Angeles LGBT Center may fill that void A new study from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health suggests modifying federal health guidelines related to the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV transmission because current standards could miss ...

Static picture in other countries conceals local change, especially in gay men The annual number of new cases of HIV increased by at least 8% in 2015 in the whole of the World Health Organization’s European region, and by 60% in the last decade, according to ...

Researchers have come up with the first direct evidence that enough hepatitis C virus (HCV) sheds into the rectums of HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) to transmit directly to another man’s penis during anal sex, even when no blood is present. Publishing their ...