HRC Blog

New HRC issue brief looks at how HIV/AIDS is continuing to impact our community, and what the barriers are to education and treatment.

It’s been 22 years since the International AIDS Conference was last held in the United States.  That’s going to change in July when AIDS 2012 is coming to Washington, DC, thanks to the end of the discriminatory ban on HIV positive visitors to the U.S.  HRC, along with many others, worked to repeal that ban in 2009.  Now HRC will proudly take part in the conference activities.

Providing clean, sterile syringes in exchange for used ones directly reduces the transmission of HIV, hepatitis, and other blood-borne infections.

Grant Colfax previously led HIV Prevention efforts in San Fran’s Department of Public Health.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is calling for input on a new pilot study, aimed at establishing “alternative donor deferral criteria” for gay and bisexual men who hope to give blood. Gay and bisexual men are currently banned from donating blood or plasma in the United States.