“The Voice” singer Jamar Rogers has been traveling to high schools and universities, lecturing students about the importance of practicing safe sex. He should know. He learned that he was diagnosed with AIDS following a six-year stint of using crystal-meth, sharing needles, and having unprotected sex. Now, he’s a spokesman for the Center for Disease […]

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A focus on global health seems to be a trait Mrs. Clinton shares with her husband. On Thursday, Hillary Clinton unveiled a new “blueprint” guide to wiping out the AIDS virus globally, and aiming for “an AIDS-free generation.” The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief will focus on improving treatment and prevention worldwide. The secretary […]

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Home HIV tests are expected to be available at stores in October. A quick swab of the mouth and 20 minutes later you’ll have an answer. But will the results be reliable? Dr. Ann Avery of MetroHealth Medical Center cautioned that people need to be prepared for whatever result they receive […]

Shocking headlines and a chilling confession a Texas man gave to cops after allegedly stabbing his girlfriend for telling him she was HIV-positive. 36 year old Larry Dunn, Jr., told cops he snapped during a visit to the Dallas apartment of his new girlfriend, 28-year-old Cicely Bolden.  After the couple had sex, Dunn says Bolden revealed […]

WZAK Stone Soul Picnic – Buy Your Tickets In the time it takes to read this article, someone in the United States will contract HIV and, according to recent statistics, there’s a 50 percent chance he or she will be black. HIV/AIDS is a health crisis that has long since reached epidemic proportions, yet many […]

After years of effort it looks like the fight against HIV/AIDS has taken a turn for the better! A panel of federal health advisers has endorsed the first drug shown to prevent HIV infection in healthy people, clearing the way for a potentially landmark approval in the 30-year-old effort against the virus that causes AIDS.  […]

After 30 years of the HIV pandemic, one might think that terms such as "community collaboration" and "community participation" would be commonplace among those fighting the disease. But in many communities across the country, this is not the case. In fact, the clock seems to be rolling back to the early days, when the opinions and actions of a small minority marginalized the voices of those who were most impacted by the global pandemic. Make no mistake: many people are indeed living longer with HIV disease as a result of improved treatments. But with all of the dynamic shifts in HIV treatment, prevention, and policy, it is especially disheartening -- and, we would say, dangerous -- that women, black gay men, people of color, heterosexual men, transgender individuals and, most notably, Black organizations still must fight to be heard by the decision makers who develop, implement, and allocate funding for HIV-related policies and programs.

Homophobia is a big issue in the Hip Hop community, as well as fear of/discrimination against HIV/AIDS, and Magic Johnson plans on doing something about it. NBA legend Magic Johnson is planning to tackle the issue of homophobia and HIV/AIDS within the Hip-Hop community. Magic recently marked the 20th anniversary of his announcement that he […]

An extraordinary development has surfaced in the quest for a vaccine for HIV.  

On June 27, many local health centers, churches and community organizations across the country held events for National HIV Testing Day.   This important day was designated to make people more aware and to get tested to know their status. However, the mission continues  each day to educate and make people aware of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.  […]

This week is  World AIDS HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. With all of the information dispersed out here for us, the numbers of infected African-Americans women and men are still rising.  Why?