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Infectious diseases specialist Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who walked out of the CDC over Trump's health policies, will begin his new role at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center in February.
“As long as people willing to fight, we will change the course of history,” says HRC's Matthew Rose.
A directive from the State Department assures that 2025 will be different from 2024, when President Biden hosted the first display of AIDS Memorial Quilt panels at the White House.
Unlike the version of the virus that spread around the world in 2022, this one has had more severe outcomes.
“Without these people in place, it’s unlikely that a lot of these programs will be able to continue even after the government reopens," former HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary Adrian Shanker told The Advocate.
Opinion: Throughout his bizarre life, and especially at Thursday's Senate Finance Committee hearing, Kennedy has proved that he is the proverbial "Toad of Toad Hall," writes John Casey.
Javier Muñoz and Peppermint tell The Advocate about their time on Capitol Hill fighting for HIV funds.
The U.S. senator from Kentucky made the comment about Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned over the Trump administration's anti-science policies.
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
One HHS official called him a "public health martial artist."
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis is one of the most respected LGBTQ+ public health officials in the U.S.
Opinion: When tanks replace syringes, the deterioration of our health and democracy will follow, writes John Casey.
Donald Trump claimed on the campaign trail that he had "nothing to do" with Project 2025 — but now that he's in office, he's implementing it.
At the die-in, while a narrator slowly read through a list of devastating health outcomes that HHS funding cuts will have on the LGBTQ+ community.
Opinion: Kennedy has come under fire from Congress, Wall Street, and scores of health care professionals, all warning about his incompetence, writes John Casey.
“This is a dangerous move,” Jirair Ratevosian, an associate research scientist at Yale University, told The Advocate.
Pages devoted to HIV and AIDS, assisted reproductive technologies, and youth health risks had disappeared from government websites due to Donald Trump's "gender ideology" order.
Trump's executive order prohibiting federal agencies from making any mention of "gender ideology" has forced the CDC to remove HIV-related pages regardless of if they mentioned gender or not.
Primary and secondary syphilis cases dropped 13 percent among gay and bisexual men for the first time since the CDC began tracking the group in the mid-2000s.
The CDC has released the "first nationally representative data on transgender and questioning students," and its findings are revealing.
So far, the federal government says that no cases of the newly-concerning strain have been reported in the United States.
