Desmond Tutu (pictured) has called for the decriminalization of homosexuality to better help combat the spread of HIV in the gay community, The BBC reports. SEE ALSO: ‘Dark Night’ Shooter Was PhD Student. He argued that anti-homosexuality laws are as wrong as apartheid laws were. Want to Keep Up With NewsOne.com? LIKE Us On Facebook! […]
More than 1 million folks in the United States are living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, but 20 percent of them don’t know they are infected. The National Association of People With Aids founded National HIV Testing Day 19 years ago. Today, on Wednesday, June 27th, Americans can go get tested and know their status. […]
When Magic Johnson announced to the world that he was infected with HIV in November of 1991, he instantly became the face of the virus. SEE ALSO: Will Smith Slaps Reporter NYPD Says ‘Stop And Frisk’ Works But not too long after he made his announcement, the world focused its eyes on another face: a […]
With April being National STD Awareness Month, a new national campaign to spark sexually transmitted disease awareness launched in New York this morning. Media giant MTV and the Kaiser Family Foundation have been partners in spearheading the “GYT: Get Yourself Tested” campaign since 2009, using a variety of campaign strategies to reach college campuses and […]
‘LIKE’ NewsOne’s FB Page To Stay Up On Black News From Around The World Magic and Cookie Johnson reflect on that faithful November day in 1991 when Magic revealed to her that he had contracted HIV. Rumor has it that Cookie smacked him when he told her. She remembers it more as a ‘love tap.’ […]
Several outraged AIDS activists in Tanzania have denounced some local school administrators for forcing HIV-positive students to wear special uniforms adorned with red ribbons, according to a BBC news report. SEE ALSO: Teacher Sued For Ordering Girl To Pee In Bucket Mohammed Lukema, the headmaster of Kibaha Primary School in the country’s largest city Dar es […]
The message that Janet Cleveland, Deputy Director for Prevention Programs, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is pushing toward women for National Women and Girls HIV Awareness Day this Saturday is a simple one: knowing your status is a right. SEE ALSO: Anti-Kony Charity Slammed For Spending Habits, Gun […]
HIV/AIDS remains one of the most-harrowing global crises of present times, with entire nations doing their best to combat the spread of the disease. SEE ALSO: HIV/AIDS In America: Black AIDS Institute Is Winning The War According to data from the UNAIDS organization and the CDC, 34-million people are living with HIV/AIDs globally. In the […]
Whenever we hear of devastating news from the continent of Africa, its HIV problems are likely to be leading the headlines. RELATED: In America, Black AIDS Institute Is Winning The War But what you may not know about Africa is that the number of people newly infected with HIV in 2009 fell from 2.2 million […]
This Black History Month, we honor the GAME CHANGERS: Everyday heroes whose actions make life better for the people around them. SEE ALL OUR GAME CHANGERS HERE —————- Maria Davis Age: 51 City of Residence: New York City Why she is a local hero: After contracting HIV from a man whom she thought she was […]
Andre Davis, a former professional wrestler, who went by the names Gangsta of Love and Sweet Sexy Sensation, has been sentenced to 32 years in prison for having sex with women without telling them that he’d tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS. SEE ALSO: Welfare Office Bans Pajamas Davis, a 29-year-old man, was […]
A device has been developed to facilitate non-surgical circumcisions in adult males which experts say could have a revolutionary impact on cutting the spread of HIV, according to a report in GOOD. PrePex, the tool from Circ MedTech which requires no injected anesthesia, is being regarded as a way to fight AIDS in Africa. SEE […]
