Michael L Johnson, 23, a former wrestler at Lindenwood University in Missouri, faces 60 years in prison after a jury determined on Friday that he knowingly exposed and transmitted HIV to partners who had no idea he carried the virus, STL Today reports. SEE ALSO: Rumor Control: Reports of Man Spreading HIV Intentionally Are A […]
Indiana state health officials confirmed the recent HIV epidemic in Scott County is worsening, the New York Times reports. With reports of up to 130 cases in what has become the largest such outbreak in the southeastern portion of the state, officials say that the skyrocketing of these cases are linked to injections of the powerful painkiller […]
Just days after Indiana Gov. Mike Pence declared a public health emergency in his state due to an HIV outbreak, it was revealed the county at the center of the explosion has been without a testing center since early 2013, reports the Huffington Post. The clinic in Scott County and four other Planned Parenthood facilities in the […]
South Indiana is under major pressure to create a medical safety blanket after it was revealed Gov. Mike Pence would declare a health emergency over the growing cases of HIV in the area. Excessive amounts of drug use have aided the increase in HIV and AIDS viruses, according to the Indy Star. Oxymorphone – or Opana – has […]
The headline is as frightening as it sounds: “Half Of Atlanta’s Newly Diagnosed HIV Patients Have AIDS, Grady Testing Finds.” Yet, what may sound like an isolated problem is a complicated issue whose faults are multidimensional and could easily pour over into other major metropolitan cities. If they haven’t already. As NPR’s Lisa Hagen reports, […]
While the death rate among Blacks living with HIV is declining in the U.S., it is still higher than any other racial or ethnic group, according to a statement released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ahead of the 16th annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, commemorated on Feb. 7 each year. SEE […]
Juan McFarland, pastor of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, revealed he was stealing money, having sex with members of his congregation inside the church and that he also has AIDS. On Thursday, a Montgomery County circuit court judge temporarily banned McFarland from the church. RELATED: Ala. Pastor Confesses To AIDS Diagnosis, Adultery, Drug Use In Front […]
Podcast: Download As the world watches the Ebola crisis unfold, questions about how nurses in Dallas contracted the deadly disease continue to arise, why Amber Joy Vinson was allowed to travel after caring for Thomas Eric Duncan (Patient Zero) and why the CDC did not step in and take over the situation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Roland Martin […]
On Thursday, CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden made the following statement about the current Ebola outbreak: In the 30 years I’ve been working in public health, the only thing like this has been AIDS. In West Africa, more than 8,000 people are infected with Ebola and more than 4,000 have died. The CDC estimates by January of […]
September is National Blood Cancer Awareness Month, Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness Month. That is fact. But contrary to the cruel hoax article circulating that plays on the fears and prejudices of those people misinformed and uneducated about HIV/AIDS, NBA legend Magic Johnson did not donate blood to the cause. NewsBuzzDaily.com “reports”: Retired NBA star, Earvin […]
Women may soon have one more weapon at their disposal in the fight against HIV that could (ideally) be available over the counter! Researchers…
A Louisiana school teacher has been arrested for having sex with an underage student, intentionally infecting him with AIDS, WUSA9 reports. SEE ALSO: Obama Plans June Fundraiser Stops In Boston, NYC Sheriff deputies arrested Derrick Nesby (pictured) Wednesday. The 37-year-old teaches at H.L. Bourgeois High School in Terrebonne Parish. He was reportedly intimate with a 16-year-old […]
