HIV and AIDS

The Meth-Gay Sex Nightmare

Daniel Robison barely escaped the deadly addiction

AIDS Healthcare Foundation Turns 25, Continues to Grow Globally

The HIV/AIDS advocacy group that brings you those condom and HIV-testing billboards all over Los Angeles turned 25 over the weekend, as first reported by LGBT POV. Founded by the feisty Michael Weinstein, AIDS Healthcare Foundation has been on the front lines of battling HIV/AIDS since 1987 -- a p ... More >>

HIV Infections in Los Angeles: There's a Map For That

So you want to know how many of your neighbors have HIV or where the hotspots for the virus are in L.A. County? There's a map for that. A new location service developed with the help of Emory University called www.aidsvu.org will help you fined "zip-code-level" info on HIV cases. L.A. will be one ... More >>

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UCLA Scientists Invent HIV-Blocking Anal Gel

cure.med.ucla.eduDr. Peter Anton, who led the study.​In the worldwide race to cure HIV, researchers out of Los Angeles have made some of the biggest recent breakthroughs. By late 2009, UCLA had discovered human blood stem cells could be used to fight HIV-infected cells. And by this August, USC ... More >>

Porn Industry Gets Back to Work as Performer Thought to be HIV Positive Apparently Isn't

Star ForemanDearth Vader look-a-like at Exxxotica convention last month.​It was the HIV case that set off a war of words between the porn industry and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. And it turns out it wasn't an HIV case at all. The adult video trade group Free Speech Coalition (FSC) announc ... More >>

Criticism of Porn's HIV Scare Sparks Outrage at Manwin, the Adult Video Juggernaut That Employed Performer in Question

mofos.com​Updated at the bottom with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation's response. First posted at 5:09 p.m. The company that employed a porn star who might be HIV-positive today said the man did not continue to work, nor did he work with other performers, after a test indicated he might have th ... More >>

Born to Act Up

Richard Zaldivar: The Man Behind the Wall

AIDS Isn't Over, People, So Stop Acting Like it Is: A Warning From HIV's First Responder, UCLA's Michael Gottlieb

michaelgottliebmd.comDr. Michael S. Gottlieb.​A lot of you kids out there just don't remember the days when sex could kill and condoms weren't just optional. It's unfortunate, because as the 30th anniversary of the discovery of AIDS approaches in June, it's still a full-on, official epidemic, ... More >>

Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Activist Mourned By Non-Profit Leaders in Los Angeles

HIV/AIDS activist Elizabeth Taylor​Elizabeth Taylor's passing is mourned by HIV/AIDS activists in Los Angeles. Taylor had worked on the front lines of HIV/AIDS activism for decades, especially after the 1985 death of her longtime friend, movie star Rock Hudson. "She was a singular champion ... More >>

Derrick Burts, Porn Actor Who Sparked Latest HIV Scare In San Fernando Valley Industry, Speaks Up For Condom Use (But Offers Strange Story Of How He Came Up Positive)

MySpaceDerrick Burts.​A performer who set off the latest HIV scare in adult film has turned against his employers and is speaking out against the adult video industry and its resistance to mandatory condom use. Derrick Burts teamed up with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which unleashed his t ... More >>

Porn Industry Group Finally Reports HIV Case To L.A. County Health Officials

The porn industry took its time reporting an HIV-positive actor.​The porn industry's main health-care organization caved and sent the results from a positive HIV test to the county, as mandated by state law. The Adult Industry Medical (AIM) Healthcare Foundation turned the results in Tuesday ... More >>

Porn Actor Has HIV, But L.A. County Health Department Has Yet To Do Anything About It, According To AIDS Healthcare Group

diebmx via FlickrIs the county lagging on HIV-in-porn report?​Is the porn industry pushing its luck with this latest report of HIV? The AIDS Healthcare Foundation says it is. According to AHF, Adult Industry Medical (AIM) Healthcare, the group that conducts voluntary STD testing for the adul ... More >>

San Fernando Valley Porn Actor Tests Positive For HIV; AIDS Activists Who Want Mandatory Condoms In Porn Say We Told You So

Steve LaAIDS Healthcare Foundation protested outside Larry Flynt Publications recently. ​A porn actor has tested positive for HIV, the industry's health care foundation has told reporters. It doesn't come as a surprise: Several actors in the San Fernando-based biz have tested positive in the ... More >>

Movie Review: The Other City

Desmond Tutu Criticizes President Barack Obama's AIDS Strategy

Rev. Desmond Tutu​AIDS Healthcare Foundation president Michael Weinstein isn't the only person slamming President Barack Obama's AIDS strategy, which L.A. Weekly reported last week. Now Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu has spoken out. "I appreciate that tough financial times require the ... More >>

Was George Bush's AIDS Strategy Better Than Barack Obama's?

AIDS Healthcare Foundation​AIDS Healthcare Foundation founder Michael Weinstein came out swinging yesterday at a Washington D.C. press conference, offering up that President Barack Obama's AIDS strategy measures up poorly to his predecessor's, former president George W. Bush. "The New York T ... More >>

AIDS Activist Richard Zaldivar Puts Archbishop Jose Gomez on Notice

AIDS activist Richard Zaldivar​AIDS activist Richard Zaldivar put Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez on notice the other day -- firmly, yet respectfully demanding that the church play a more vigorous role in preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Latino community. "Roughly 70 percent of our ... More >>

Rubbers Revolutionary: AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Michael Weinstein

Activist wants to save porn actors from STDs. It's been lonely

Huge AIDS Breakthrough From UCLA Announced (Application, Though, Still Likely Far Off)

UCLA AIDS Institute.​UCLA researchers this week published data that for the first time shows human blood stem cells can be engineered to attack HIV-infected cells and that the process could not only prove to be a breakthrough for AIDS patients but also for the sufferers of other viral diseases ... More >>

Group Tries To Force Condoms On Porn Stars (Good Luck With That)

Porn star Belladonna.​The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has been on a tear against the porn industry and its often unhealthy ways. On Friday it convened a UCLA symposium of health-care groups in a step toward getting the state to force male porn stars to use condoms. God bless them for it, but ... More >>

Queer Town: Hollywood Protest Slams Schwarzenegger's Cuts to HIV/AIDS Services

With L.A. City Councilman Bernard Parks, L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky and AIDS Healthcare Foundation President Michael Weinstein in attendance, a crowd of more than1,000 people gathered in front of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Friday afternoon, shut down Santa Monica Boulevard and pro ... More >>

Aids Conference Take 3: Lost in Translation

AIDS Conference Take 1: Rejecting Bill Clinton

The AIDS Conference opened with a bang on Monday: An activist take-over of a symposium hosted by a pharmaceutical company (which decided to stop distributing HIV drugs to kids) and a speech by Bill Clinton where I suppose he said some quotable things. On Sunday night the gala opening happened at ... More >>

Gay Syphilis Scourge Skyrockets

County officials dawdle, leisurely launching another questionable ad campaign

Michael Kearns

The Actorvist

70 Million and Counting

The clash of politics and morality in The Age of AIDS

My Favorite Upstarts

2005’s bumper crop of socially concerned organizations

Shedding Light on the AIDS Blackout

The first-ever national African-American summit on AIDS grapples with the record numbers of blacks contracting the disease

Time of Misery

AIDS: Snoozing after the wake-up call

Condom Wars

New guidelines gut HIV prevention — and endanger young people’s lives

Taking the Hypocrite’s Oath

Sad Song

And the Band Played On has its 10-year anniversary

Saving Face

When good drugs have disfiguring consequences

Losing Dorothy

If you’re black and poor in L.A., silence still equals death.

Black AIDS: 'Our People, Our Problem, Our Solution'

Pro and Condoms

West Hollywood voters to decide on bar plan

Waiting for the End of the World

Jon Cohen documents the fits and starts of AIDS-vaccine research

Acting Up

Dissident gays anger veteran activists by calling for end to AIDS funding

Health Services

Bareback Riding

The porn industry deals with another HIV-positive performer

A Matter of Life and Death

The age, and new age, of AIDS

91 Timeline

AIDS activists fight to keep HIV reports confidential

Ask, But Don't Tell

The Virus Fights Back

Short Time for Needle Exchange

Hollywood agency gets eviction notice

Room at the Top

County fails to respond to AIDS leadership crisis