On Sunday 15 May, the Axel Hotel Berlin welcomes the twenty-eighth edition of the AIDS Candlelight Memorial. This is an special open event, whom we invite you to participate. The theme of this year is “Remembering Lives”  and the point is to remember how HIV has impacted the lives of so many of us and [...]

The British government is to lift the ban on gay men giving blood, ruling that a blanket ban is discriminatory and could be in breach of the Equality Act. However, lifting the ban will only apply to gay men who have not had sex for 10 years prior to donating blood. The Sunday Times reports [...]

New Zealand has seen an alarming number of gay and bisexual men diagnosed with HIV last year. According to the AIDS Epidemiology Group at the University of Otago, 90 of the 149 new infections diagnosed last year were found in men who have sex with men. HIV campaigners said that rates of the disease in [...]

The first data from new systems of detecting recent HIV infection in the UK have shown that among those diagnosed, one in six gay men were infected in the past few months, whereas only one in 16 heterosexuals were. Sam Lattimore of the Health Protection Agency presented the results to the Eighteenth International AIDS Conference [...]

The reputation of Tory perception on homosexuality must be nearing caricature territory. First the private admission by the shadow home secretary that B&B owners should be able to exclude gay couple from their services on the grounds of religious belief. Then came the less-than-flattering Gay Times interview with David Cameron. However, the latest member of [...]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhoea may become untreatable due to the improper use of antibiotics. The disease, which increases the chances of gay men catching HIV, is usually treated with a course of antibiotics but doctors say that they are seeing increasing resistance to drugs in the [...]

By Ravinia Hayes-Cozier, Director of Government Relations and Public Policy While we applaud the President’s request to increase HIV/AIDS funding by $40 million (1.7%) in the FY2011 budget, I am concerned that this number falls short after the 8 years of flat-funding under the previous Administration. Sometimes we count our blessings no matter how small [...]