The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week approved Truvada pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for adolescents, which will likely make the HIV prevention pill more widely available to a group with a disproportionately high risk of infection.
May 17 marks the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in Liberia are using the opportunity to draw attention to how discrimination impedes their access to healthcare.
Meanwhile, if you dug just under the surface of the actual queer community that you so liberally label with these passé designations, you’d see a movement of body positivity among many other nuanced subcultures.
Syphilis and yaws are closely related bacterial infections. In many countries where the diseases are found there is limited access to diagnostic testing.
Health officials in Riverside County, California say they’ve reached a “critical point” with the number of syphilis infections, particularly in the Coachella Valley, where the rate of infection is nearly three times the rate countywide.
The Sexually Transmitted Infections Guidelines Committee of the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute has recently released guidelines on the "Management of Syphilis in Patients with HIV."
