Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

This shot might protect against #HIV
Promising results from an early-stage trial suggest #lenacapavir #injections might offer long-lasting protection.
When it came to innovations in biotech, this year there was a clear winner: lenacapavir, was found to prevent HIV infections in 100% of the women and girls who received it in #clinicaltrial. The drug was safe, too (it’s already approved to treat HIV). And it only needed to be injected twice a year to offer full protection.
technologyreview.com/2025/03/1

MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History April 25, 1993: Over one million people marched in Washington, D.C., for gay, lesbian, bisexual, & transgender rights. This was in the era of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell discrimination within the military and Colorado’s constitutional amendment invalidating laws that protect LGBTQ rights. The marchers had seven basic demands. The 1st demand was a civil rights bill and ending all discrimination by state and federal governments, including the repeal of all sodomy laws. They also demanded more funding for AIDS research and treatment; an end to discrimination in adoption and child custody; full inclusion of all LGBTQ people in the education system; and an end to all discrimination and violence against LGBTQ people. However, in their platform, they also demanded these same rights and protections for ALL people, especially people of color, people with disabilities, women, nonbinary and trans people, and working class and poor people.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #lgbtq #TransRightsAreHumanRights #discrimination #racism #ableism #feminism #solidarity #classwar #hiv #aids #protest #demonstration #washington

Robert Koch-Institut

Wie steht es um die #HIV- Präexpositionsprophylaxe- #PrEP-Versorgung in Deutschland?

Eine Befragung in HIV-Schwerpunktzentren zeigt: HIV-PrEP schützt – doch Lieferengpässe erschweren Versorgung und HIV-Therapien.

Mehr im EpidBull
🔗 rki.de/DE/Aktuelles/Publikatio

Apr 24, 2025, 13:00 · · · 2 · 0
Helen Branswell

One of the truly puzzling things about the #HHS budget cuts is the slashing of funding for programs aimed at stopping spread of #HIV. Brett Giroir, from the first Trump administration, finds it puzzling too. statnews.com/2025/04/23/trump-

Former Trump official warns president he’s at risk of ruining his legacy on ending HIV

DOGE's funding cuts threaten to undo progress toward…

STAT
Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:

"President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is defending the Affordable Care Act before the Supreme Court...But a win for the federal government in the current case, concerning the law’s mandates that certain preventive services are covered cost-free, could boost the power that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has in shaping those requirements."

cnn.com/2025/04/20/politics/ob

#healthcare #insurance #ACA #SCOTUS #prevention #USPSTF #cancer #HIV #MentalHealth

Nonilex

Before the case was narrowed to the #AppointmentsClause issue, the lawsuit included a #religious objection to being required to cover pre-exposure #prophylaxis for #HIV. They claimed that such drugs "facilitate & encourage homosexual behavior, prostitution, sexual promiscuity & intravenous drug use."

#law #SCOTUS #medicine #HealthCare #ACA #insurance #PreventiveCare

Nando161

"1. #COVID is not a respiratory #illness, it’s a multi-system #disease with some respiratory symptoms. Remember how #HIV infection starts with a ‘#flu’?

2. COVID is airborne, meaning the SARS-CoV-2 #virus is expelled into the air passively, just by breathing, even in the absence of symptoms. It accumulates and spreads out in enclosed spaces. Like theatres. Hand washing won’t prevent its spread.

thecanary.co/global/world-anal

#health #fact #ausgov #politas #pandemic #pandemics #Coronavirus #psa #fyi

After New York COVID play reporting vanishes, artists launch global cultural intervention, call-in Eric Bogosian

In recent weeks, a small but pointed COVID-based theater…

Canary
why-not @Heike

#hiv #aids #usaid #afrika #trump #vance #musk

In Afrika findet ein Massenmord statt, und die Massenmörder heißen Trump, Vance, Musk und Co.
In einigen Ländern verhungern Menschen noch dazu. Es ist eine Katastrophe!

npr.org/sections/goats-and-sod

Steven Saus [he/him]

(17 Apr) Political action group ACT UP Cleveland meets for the first time in over 20 years amid threats to HIV/AIDS funding

‘We have lived this nightmare before.’

s.faithcollapsing.com/gv6m1
Archive: ais: archive.md/wip/23GNQ ia: s.faithcollapsing.com/cpgsx

#act-up #gay-ohio #hiv-&-aids #lgbt-ohio #lgbtq-ohio #ryan-white-care-act #transgender-ohio

Maggie Maybe

RIP #CDC

“Fleming noted that he was particularly concerned that #HIV prevention efforts had been “substantially cut,” that the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (#NIOSH ) is ‘essentially gone,’ and that staff members who worked on cancer clustershad been fired.”
“The April 2 letter also listed asthma, tobacco use, violence prevention, lead poisoning, reproductive health, global health threats, birth defects, and #disability and injury prevention as CDC programs affected by the firings.”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/

#JAMA