Many in the LGBTQ community have been traumatized by the current political climate, which feels inescapable. International yogi, meditation teacher, and author of the frank and funny forthcoming new book "Sage Sapien: From Karma to Dharma," Johnson C...

The Trevor Project, the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ young people, and AT&T Turn Up the Love, the company’s campaign to support and engage LGBTQ people and allies, has launched Anytime, Anywher...

Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) — the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization — responded to the Trump-Pence administration’s latest attempt to undermine the rights and welfare of LGBTQ ...

“Remembering, Commemorating, Memorializing,” an interfaith prayer breakfast honoring caregivers and those impacted by HIV/AIDS, will be hosted by The Griot Museum of Black History, Empower Missouri and the Missouri Foundation for Health, on Saturday,...

The Illinois House of Representatives, on Wednesday, voted to allow teenage Illinoisans as young as 12 years old to secure the HIV-prevention drug PrEP without parental consent.    ...

The U.S. Congress and President Donald J. Trump, on Friday, adopted bipartisan appropriations legislation that will increase funding for the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) while keeping the U.S. government open for...

In his State of the Union tonight, President Donald J. Trump announced a notable goal to end HIV/AIDS transmissions by 2030. However, the Trump administration has consistently undermined advancements in HIV/AIDS research, attacked people living with ...

With most state legislatures back in session, GLSEN released, on Wednesday, state-level data from its benchmark 2017 National School Climate Survey, which demonstrate that schools across the nation are not safe for most lesbian, gay, bisexu...

Agreement is part of settlement in lawsuit brought by Lambda Legal and Michigan Protection & Advocacy Service Lambda Legal and Michigan Protection & Advocacy Service (MPAS) announced, on Wednesday, the successful settlement of a 2015 lawsuit...

Fall is here and so is flu season. Some 80,000 Americans died of flu last year, the deadliest season in at least four decades.   ...

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the parent organization of  Positive Healthcare, a nonprofit agency providing medical care to thousands of Medicaid patients living with HIV in Florida for nearly two decades, on Thursday filed a second public r...

A new study released by the American Academy of Pediatrics shows alarming levels of attempted suicide among transgender youth. The study documents the highest rates of attempted suicide among transgender boys and non-binary youth.    ...

St. Louis Effort for AIDS (EFA) marks its 25th year participating in Dining Out for Life (DOFL) on Thursday, April 26th, 2018 with over 100 area restaurants taking part this year. ...

Thanks to the Elton John AIDS Foundation grant and the Syringe Access Fund, the project will expand to provide services to more than 800 at risk individuals over the next two years.   ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Since 2016, the Missouri SAFE Project...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – DOORWAYS Dietary Manager, Brenda Armour, was the recipient has of the inaugural St. Louis Red Ribbon Award for Lifetime Achievement. The honor was presented at the St. Louis World AIDS Day observation at the Missouri History Museum, ...

WASHINGTON, DC – Out2Enroll announced today the formation of an unprecedented nationwide coalition of over 60 national, state, and local LGBTQ and allied organizations committed to educating LGBTQ consumers about the hea...

LOS ANGELES, Ca. - Advocates from AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) stepped up efforts to ensure that Gilead Sciences, Inc. be held accountable for promoting off-label use of Truvada for use as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV infection....

CEO Martin Shkreli earned the world’s wrath when his company Turing Pharmaceuticals purchased the rights to AIDS drug Daraprim and raised the price by over 5,000 percent. ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - This Friday is National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day. The need for such a day is not lost on those who work directly, or indirectly with persons who live with HIV/AIDS, or in the field of education and prevention. The purpose of ...

WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a proposed rule to advance health equity and reduce disparities in health care. The proposed rule, Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities, will assist some ...

A gay health advocate is calling on the Australian government to shut down hookup sites like Grindr until companies address the drug deals taking part on their services. ...

FULTON, Mo. - Fulton State Hospital has received leader status from PROMO Fund, joining the growing ranks of hospitals across Missouri in updating policies to better serve its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) patients. ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - The Saint Louis County Department of Health has issued a health advisory to notify healthcare providers about the ocular Syphilis outbreak around the nation. Locally, one case has been confirmed and other possible cases are being inv...

St. Louis has a new social group designed for HIV-positive, poz-friendly and poz impacted men to meet and socialize.     ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. —St. Louis Effort for AIDS, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri and a number of other assister organizations were successful in securing a favorable ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday regardin...

Coordinated Youth and Human Services' Madison County AIDS Program (MadCAP), a Metro East based AIDS Service Organization (ASO), was recently chosen as one of two agencies in Illinois to pilot a rapid syphilis testing program.    ...

Same-sex couples are a step closer to having their own biological children thanks to breakthrough stem cell research by scientists at Cambridge University and the Weizmann Institute in Israel.   ...

Need an HIV or STD test in a hurry? As it turns out, there's an  app for that. Seriously.    ...

LGBT HealthLink, a program of CenterLink; PROMO, Missouri's statewide LGBT advocacy organization; and lawyer Corey Prachniak, today, released the first ever LGBT Healthcare Bill of Rights (HBOR). The bill, in both long form and wallet sized vers...

  On a list that includes Erasure’s Andy Bell and AIDS Memorial Quilt founder Cleve Jones, St. Louis-based activist Aaron Matthew Laxton has been lauded in HIV Plus Magazine’s lineup of the Top 20 Amazing HIV Positive Gay Men of 2014.  ...

  CHICAGO, IL — Authors of a new study released last week confirm that cross-sex hormone treatment of transgender adults leads to very few long-term side effects.   ...

  A new study conducted by the University of Melbourne in Australia confirms what many LGBT families in the St. Louis region already know - that children of same-sex parents enjoy better levels of health and well being than their peers f...

  URBANA, Ill. — Lambda Legal on April 15 filed a lawsuit claiming that an Illinois health care services group denied medical care to a transgender woman after she requested hormone replacement therapy.     ...