Walmart and MISTR to offer free at-home HIV testing kits
A new pilot program that kicks off July 25 will offer free at-home HIV testing kits in seven Georgia Walmart stores.
July 25 2024 10:02 AM
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Discover the Health section of The Advocate, where readers can find the latest news on medicine, fitness, mental and physical wellbeing, scientific developments, and diseases that affect the LGBT community. Read the most recent on gay health, AIDS and HIV news, pregnancy and sex from experts like doctors and researchers. Learn about news related to health insurance, statistics, changing laws and government policy, and tools that can be used in preventing and curing illnesses in the United States and beyond.
Tennessee agrees to remove sex workers convicted for living with HIV from its sex offender registry
“No one should be forced to endure what I have endured,” one plaintiff said.
July 24 2024 1:12 PM
'Devastated:' A six-week abortion ban will go into effect in Iowa next week
Health care practitioners in the state decried the ruling as a decision that "will push abortion care almost entirely out of reach in Iowa."
July 23 2024 2:28 PM
The AIDs pandemic can be ended by 2030, but governments must act: report
One person dies from AIDS-related causes every minute globally, but world leaders can stop it.
July 22 2024 1:01 PM
This punk bakery in Nashville gives trans customers gender-affirming surgery care packages
Guerilla Bizkits tells The Advocate about its post-surgery care packages that provide transgender customers with easy-to-prepare biscuits, jam, and coffee.
July 22 2024 11:23 AM
Megan Rapinoe shuts down period stigma, Republicans, and homophobic soccer players (exclusive)
Megan Rapinoe tells The Advocate about her campaign with Knix to end period stigma, and the state of LGBTQ+ acceptance in women's soccer.
July 18 2024 8:00 AM
Paris Olympics will give out 300,000 condoms to athletes, continuing long-held tradition
300,000 condoms will be available in the Paris Olympic Village, returning to tradition after the IOC issued an intimacy ban and social distancing orders for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
July 15 2024 5:03 PM
Japanese court allows trans woman to legally change gender without surgery
The woman successfully argued that Japan's surgery requirement for receiving a legal gender change presented her with huge financial and physical burdens.
July 12 2024 12:05 PM
If you think Project 2025 is scary, take a look at Donald Trump's Agenda 47
If reelected, Donald Trump will "cut federal funding for any school or program pushing critical race theory or gender ideology" and "create a new credentialing body to certify teachers who embrace patriotic values."
July 09 2024 2:35 PM
Judge blocks Missouri AG from accessing medical records of transgender minors
Judge Joseph Whyte wrote that Missouri consumer protections do not require “blind obedience to the attorney general’s civil investigative demands."
July 09 2024 12:09 PM
Biden health officials urge syphilis, hepatitis C & HIV tests on National HIV Testing Day (exclusive)
It’s called the syndemic approach and sexually active people should know about it, officials say.
July 05 2024 4:22 PM
All Republican women in the South Carolina Senate lost their primaries — Here's why
Three women GOP State Senators joined Democrats last year to block an extreme conservative-backed bill.
July 01 2024 12:08 PM
Gender-affirming surgeries are mostly performed on cisgender people: 'Bitter irony'
Out of the 151 breast reductions that were performed in 2019 on American minors, 146 (97 percent) were performed on cisgender males.
June 27 2024 4:10 PM
Supreme Court blocks Idaho's ban on emergency abortions, but it's 'not a victory for pregnant patients'
The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked an Idaho ban on emergency abortions, but Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says the decision "is not a victory for pregnant patients."
June 27 2024 12:06 PM
Yes, HIV-positive people can safely breastfeed
On a recent episode of +Talk, two experts relay the real facts about breastfeeding when living with HIV.
June 26 2024 12:59 PM
Here are 15 books you should read this Pride Month
From books about trans identity to queer history, here are some of the best books to help understand and revel in LGBTQ+ identity and its intersections. What books would you recommend?
June 22 2024 11:30 AM
Bisexual and transgender adults report loneliness twice as much as straight adults: CDC
Bisexual and transgender adults also reported having the highest rates of stress, frequent mental distress, and histories of depression.
June 21 2024 12:26 PM
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Two Pulse survivors are now 'ex-gays' running a conversion therapy organization
After experiencing firsthand the carnage that anti-LGBTQ+ attacks can cause, Luis Ruiz and Angel Colon are attacking what they've dubbed the "identity pandemic."
June 14 2024 3:32 PM
'Turn up the love:' San Francisco becomes a sanctuary city for transgender people
"Our city has been and will continue to be a sanctuary and a beacon for our transgender and gender non-conforming siblings,” Supervisor Rafael Mandelman said.
June 13 2024 2:57 PM