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Organizations are reaching out to specific communities to spread the message that getting tested for HIV is important!

The medical community is abuzz with new developments around an HIV cure, from the newborn baby to the 14 patients cured of HIV, and new hope in bee venom.

February 7 is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, and in cities across the country, organizations are offering discussions, luncheons, HIV testing and other educational efforts aimed at lowering rates of HIV transmission in communities of color.

On Jan. 16, activists in South Florida launched a campaign to urge the Food and Drug Administration to rethink its nearly 30-year ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men.

For those Americans who want to serve their country in the military, having HIV is a dealbreaker, as military policy says soldiers must be able to withstand adverse situations and potential combat scenarios. But what about active service members?

Although many people can now live long, healthy lives with HIV, the stigma remains, keeping people from getting tested and fomenting violence and discrimination. Groups like The Stigma Project work to neutralize this stigma.

Ask the Doc looks at vaccines for people living with HIV/AIDS, including the recent meningitis vaccines, for pneumococcal pneumonia, for HPV, or even just a yearly flu shot.

Policies that criminalize HIV non-disclosure are meant to reduce transmission, but instead can prevent people from getting tested, for fear of arrest. The non-profit Sero is working to educate people on how these laws play out.

A man hired as a grip for a gay porn company is suing the business after he says he was forced to inject performers’ penises with an erectile dysfunction drug and was wrongfully fired.

Ji Wallace, a gay Australian Olympic gymnast and silver medalist, has revealed that he is HIV-positive.