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A federal judge in Texas ruled on Wednesday that private insurance companies should not be required under Obamacare to cover HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, better known as PrEP. In his ruling, outlined by The Advocate, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor determined that the mandate violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a law introduced in 1993 by current Senate Majority Leader […]
Medical researchers say a 66-year-old California man is the fourth person in history to be cured of HIV. According to the Washington Post, the man was diagnosed with the virus back in 1988, and has spent most of that time on antiretroviral therapy. Doctors say the man, who wished to remain anonymous, entered long-term remission from the virus […]
A woman has been cured of HIV using a new transplant method, marking the third person to be cured, according to the New York Times. The method involves umbilical cord blood, which is more widely available than adult stem cells and doesn’t need to be matched as closely to the recipient. Researchers spoke about the method at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic […]
Black leaders from nine HIV organizations met with DaBaby during a private meeting, where they say the rapper engaged in “meaningful dialogue,” Billboard reports. DaBaby spoke virtually with the leaders “to discuss HIV facts and share personal stories of living and thriving with HIV,” the organizations announced Tuesday. It came after they called for a meetig […]
Madonna has joined the growing list of artists who are calling out DaBaby. On Thursday night, the Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer shared a clip of DaBaby’s controversial comments during Rolling Loud Miami, where he spewed homophobic and sexist remarks as well as misinformation about HIV and AIDS. “If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, or any […]
It was more than a month ago when DJ Yella released Straight Outta Compton: My Untold Story, a tell-all book in which he sheds more light on his time with N.W.A. Among the many highlights in the memoir is Yella’s recollection of Eazy-E’s untimely death in 1995. The 53-year-old DJ/producer said he learned about the […]
GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) issued a response on Wednesday addressing DaBaby’s homophobic remarks during his performance at Rolling Loud Miami over the weekend. “The rhetoric that DaBaby used is inaccurate, hurtful, and harmful to the LGBTQ community and the estimated 1.2 million Americans living with HIV,” DaShawn Usher, associate director of communities of color for GLAAD, wrote in a statement released […]
The fallout continues in the wake of DaBaby’s recent homophobic comments, which have already been publicly condemned by previous collaborators Dua Lipa and Lil Nas X. Demi Lovato and Elton John are the latest artists to speak out, with the latter taking the opportunity to direct the public toward actual facts via his nonprofit. As previously […]
On Monday, New York state and federal authorities made public a lawsuit against currently imprisoned “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli over shady business practices which will seek (in part) to ban him for life from the pharmaceuticals industry. The suit is also looking for financial relief and penalties, though specific figures weren’t available for those. Shkreli […]
Starting next year, patients in California will be able to receive HIV prevention drugs without a prescription. A bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday authorizes pharmacists to furnish pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to those who are at high risk of contracting HIV and dispense post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) to people who may have been exposed to the virus. According […]
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