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Prevention and Policy

08 29, 2022

What is Driving the Latest Monkeypox Messaging Battle?

By |2022-08-29T07:43:38-04:00August 29th, 2022|Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, Monkeypox, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy|0 Comments

The first AIDS joke I ever heard in the early 1980s, back when the threat seemed remote and I was young and insensitive enough to laugh at misfortune, was about who got AIDS. At the time, it was a disease that primarily affected gay men, intravenous drug users, and Haitians. The hardest thing about having [...]

08 13, 2022

Georgia’s DeKalb County Does Monkeypox Vax Exactly Right

By |2022-08-13T11:38:02-04:00August 13th, 2022|Gay Life, Monkeypox, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy|0 Comments

DeKalb County HIV/STD Prevention Specialist Noreen Mirza The big picture view of monkeypox in this country has been fraught with heated debate, acrimony, homophobia, and anxious uncertainty about vaccine strategy and distribution. And that's just on social media. What a breath of fresh air, then, to witness a ground-level view of public health [...]

08 11, 2022

CDC’s Daskalakis on Monkeypox, Stigma, and being ‘the Gay in the Room’

By |2023-02-08T08:17:56-05:00August 11th, 2022|Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy|0 Comments

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis (2019 photo by Benjamin Ryan) Dr. Demetre Daskalakis has had a swift, visible ascent at the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which snatched him away from a successful tenure at New York City's Department of Health after he created the progressive "HIV Status Neutral" program. His very direct, [...]

08 3, 2022

Here’s the Complete AIDS2022 Coverage from My Fabulous Disease

By |2022-08-03T11:50:12-04:00August 3rd, 2022|Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy|0 Comments

Clockwise from top left: Attendees at "For F#cks Sake;" with survivor Tez Anderson; a massage in the 'Positive Lounge;' a reveler at 'No Pants No Problem;' the monkeypox protest; with activist Jade Elektra. If you know anything about me, it’s that I’m not a clinician or researcher. I leave those stories to people [...]

08 1, 2022

WATCH: Monkeypox Activists Disrupt AIDS2022 with Rageful Protest

By |2022-08-01T16:45:10-04:00August 1st, 2022|Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy|0 Comments

There was something more than the typical passion on display when activists stormed the plenary stage at AIDS2022 today to protest the slow monkeypox response by United States public health officials. The cries of the diverse crowd of protestors were urgent and inflammatory. Their demands felt deeply personal. During a plenary session on monkeypox epidemiology [...]

07 30, 2022

Who needs a ‘Positive Lounge’ at AIDS2022, anyway?

By |2022-08-01T08:49:09-04:00July 30th, 2022|Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy|0 Comments

The Positive Lounge, for people living with HIV, at AIDS2022 in Montreal The server is dressed in a black bolero jacket, the kind of thing waiters in a fine restaurant might wear, and he is carrying a tray of juices to restock the food table. Clearly, he is conscientious about his work, because [...]

07 28, 2022

HIV campaign “U Equals U” has been adopted by entire US government

By |2022-08-01T08:49:46-04:00July 28th, 2022|Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy|0 Comments

U=U advocates at the AIDS2022 pre-conference event in Montreal The Prevention Access Campaign (PAC) announced that their global effort to educate people that people living with HIV with an undetectable viral load are unable to transmit HIV sexually (known as “undetectable equals untransmittable,” or “U=U”) has now been adopted by the United States [...]

07 27, 2022

A snapshot of The Gays descending on AIDS2022 in Montreal

By |2022-07-27T22:55:32-04:00July 27th, 2022|Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy|0 Comments

Mark S. King, Brady Dale Etzkorn-Morris, Randy Davis and Linus Ignatius The poutine covering the fries in Brady’s bowl is suspicious. “It’s cheese curd,” Randy offers, and as the lone Canadian among us we figure he should know, but his explanation isn’t reassuring. The four of us, white gay men all, pick through [...]

07 26, 2022

Can Gay Men Dial Back on Sex Until Our Monkeypox Vaccinations?

By |2023-02-01T11:17:02-05:00July 26th, 2022|Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy|0 Comments

Years from now, there will be gay men who made it through a case of monkeypox who will have the scars up and down the shaft of their penis to prove it. Let me repeat that. Scars. On their cock. For the rest of their lives. I don’t think there’s a derma-peel that will take [...]

07 19, 2022

Monkeypox is a gay thing. We must say it.

By |2022-08-03T13:23:20-04:00July 19th, 2022|Gay Life, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy|0 Comments

The mainstream media and public health officials are being so damn careful not to label monkeypox “a gay disease” that they’re doing a disservice to the gay men who most need important information about the outbreak – while misleading everybody else. In a July 18th New York Times story of the excruciating symptoms and lack [...]

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