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Demetre Daskalakis speaking at a white house press conference

RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns

“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.”

Rachel Levine former Assistant Secretary Department of Health and Human Services confirmation hearing 2021

Rachel Levine led fights against HIV & STIs at HHS. Now Trump’s undoing that progress, and she’s speaking out

The former assistant secretary for health is breaking her silence on the damage Trump's HHS is doing.

Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson Cardinal Pietro Parolin Cardinal Joseph W Tobin

Who could succeed Pope Francis? We look at 10 possibilities, both LGBTQ-friendly and not

Potential successors come from all over the world and range from moderate to deeply conservative on LGBTQ+ issues.

Bridget and Christian Ziegler

The Fall of the House of Ziegler: Moms for Liberty, a threesome, and a failed political dynasty

Christian and Bridget Ziegler were the Florida Republican power couple. That is until a sex scandal and allegations of rape pushed the two out of the GOP hierarchy.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mehmet Oz, and Casey Means

Trump’s three stooges of U.S. health care: a skeptic, a quack, and a huckster

Opinion: These three aren’t a joke. They’re a warning, and if they exert their power, the consequences of their actions could be fatal, writes John Casey.

Former head of the CDC Demetre Daskalakis

What public health experts want you to know about the severe mpox strain appearing in the U.S.

Unlike the version of the virus that spread around the world in 2022, this one has had more severe outcomes.

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In the beginning: An eyewitness expert recalls the early days of AIDS

During the 1980s, Jim Curran, MD, MPH, was one of the most vital scientific minds driving the U.S. government's fight against the awakening AIDS epidemic. As an epidemiologist at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Curran was present during the first cases of the condition that would become known as AIDS--a syndrome that would change the world. Curran became chairman of the Kaposi's Sarcoma Opportunistic Infection Task Force in 1981, and eventually the director of the CDC's Division of AIDS. Today, he is the dean of the School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta and the director of the university's Center for AIDS Research. To mark the 25th anniversary of the first identified AIDS cases, Dr. Curran spoke with Benjamin Ryan.

Judge Ana Reyes; Justice Department attorney Jason Manion

Federal judge dismantles Trump's trans military ban in explosive hearing

Judge Ana Reyes accused Department of Justice attorneys of being unprepared.

Trans People Always Existed LGBTQ Protest Transgender Pride Sign

Backlash to transgender health care isn’t new − but faulty science used to justify it has changed over time

As in the 1930s, opposition to trans medicine today is part of a broad reactionary movement against what some far-right groups consider the “toxic normalization” of LGBTQ people.