HIV/AIDS

AIDS Project Los Angeles condemns governor’s proposal to force California's poorest to pay for life-saving HIV treatments

LOS ANGELES – AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) again this week called on the California Legislature to roll back the governor’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) cost-sharing proposal, which threatens access to life-saving HIV drug therapies for many of the state’s poorest living with HIV/AIDS.

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Dual epidemics of incarceration and HIV explored in Positively Aware magazine

CHICAGO – The May+June issue of Positively Aware magazine takes an in-depth look at how the criminal justice system has played a role in the HIV epidemic in the U.S.

“The U.S. is a superpower when it comes to locking people up,” said Dr. David Wohl, co-director of the University of North Carolina’s AIDS Clinical Trials Unit, and a contributor to the issue. “We have 5% of the world’s population, but 25% of its prisoners.”

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For Adams Avenue Grill's owner/chef, Dining Out For Life is personal

SAN DIEGO -- For Adams Avenue Grill owner/chef Tim Klepeis, one day is not enough for Dining Out For Life. This year, Klepeis has committed to donating 50% of his day’s sales to the event, and will extend his generosity by including all diners through the weekend who mention they are there to support Dining Out For Life.

Klepeis has been involved in Dining Out For Life since the beginning, and delights in being able to use his restaurant to support HIV/AIDS services and prevention programs at The Center.

For him, it’s deeply personal.

Latino transgender pageant in the OC spotlights the beauty of HIV education and prevention

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- The Gay & Lesbian Community Services Center of Orange County (The Center OC) will host the 19th annual Hermosa y Protegida HIV Prevention Pageant on Saturday, April 28, at the Pearson Park Amphitheatre in Anaheim.

The event regularly draws a crowd of around 500.

Special Delivery San Diego celebrates 21 years

SAN DIEGO -- Serving more than 100 free, healthy meals daily to low-income individuals living with HIV, AIDS and other medical conditions, the nonprofit Special Delivery San Diego can trace its origins back 21 years to the humanitarian effort of one Uptown restaurant owner.

HRC releases brief on HIV/AIDS and the LGBT community

WASHINGTON - The Human Rights Campaign today released an issue brief framing many of the issues set to be discussed at today’s White House LGBT Conference on HIV/AIDS in Atlanta, Ga.

Dr. Grant Colfax, director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, and Dr. Kevin Fenton of the Centers for Disease Control will deliver remarks at this conference. It is the fourth in a series of such conferences hosted by the White House.

Janssen Therapeutics awards its first Point Scholarship for LGBT students

TITUSVILLE, N.J. -- Janssen Therapeutics, a division of Janssen Products, is supporting education for LGBT students through the creation of a Point Scholarship.

Point Foundation (Point) is the nation's largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBT students of merit. Janssen Therapeutics is the first pharmaceutical company to fund a Point Scholarship.

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Mama's Day fundraiser is set for May 11 in La Jolla

SAN DIEGO – Attendees planning on coming to the 21st annual Mama’s Day fundraiser will not be disappointed with the lineup planned for the event at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla on Friday, May 11, from 5:30 to 9:30 pm.

More than 700 guests are expected to attend an extraordinary evening to benefit Mama’s Kitchen, a nonprofit organization to cook and deliver hot, nutrition-specific meals free of charge to men, women and children affected by AIDS or cancer throughout San Diego County.

HUD awards $33 million to 18 HIV/AIDS housing programs

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced that more than 1,200 extremely low-income persons living with HIV/AIDS will continue to receive permanent housing as a result of nearly $33 million in grants HUD is awarding.

Four California program earned grants: $1.5 million to the City of Los Angeles Housing Department, $1.5 million to the County of Alameda Housing and Community Development Department, $1.3 million to the Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center in San Francisco, and $1 million to the Salvation Army Alegria in Long Beach.

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Happy Birthday, ACT UP, wherever you are

(This story was originally published in HuffPost Gay Voices, a content partner of SDGLN.)

I'm an ungrateful sonofabitch. ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), which helped save my life, is 25 years old, and I am going to be 77 years old come June, and I should be grateful, right?

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