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Jonathan Groff is making it known that he’s single!

A reality TV star is calling for a life-saving anti-HIV drug to be made more widely available to help meet targets to stop the spread of the disease by 2030.

Guy Lodge Film Critic Nobody really makes AIDS dramas anymore, which seems as good a reason as any to make one now. The disease that, forty-odd years ago, decimated a generation of queer people and prompted a prejudice-driven global panic hasn’t gone away — least of all in various developing countries, where it isn’t popularly defined by gender or sexuality, and death rates are still high.

Sarah Ferguson didn't hold back as she unleashed a furious rant at the audience while on stage at the Cannes Film Festival.The 64 year old addressed the crowd at the the amfAR charity gala and became annoyed as audience members spoke over her. Sarah, also known as Fergie, looked glamorous in a £13,000 Lilith Cocktail Dress as she took to the stage during the event on Thursday, 23 May. She spoke as a painting of the late Queen Elizabeth II was auctioned off for over £400k for the charity, who works to improve the treatment of AIDS and HIV prevention.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Emily in Paris” Season 5? Not so fast. During the amfAR Gala at the Cannes Film Festival, which raises money for research to end HIV and AIDS, Winnie Harlow and Paris Jackson appeared onstage to auction off a walk-on role in a previously unannounced fifth season of the Netflix series. The winner of the auction shelled out €250,000 to appear in the series as well as the chance to attend the Season 4 premiere in Los Angeles.

The first victims of the infected blood scandal will receive their final compensation payment before the end of the year.

Angela Rayner has paid tribute to victims and campaigners affected by the infected blood scandal as an inquiry's revelations have been published.

It is known as one of the worst treatment disasters in the history of the NHS. The lives of many in the UK 'continue to be blighted' by the horrific scandal, which saw thousands given contaminated blood or blood products between the 1970s and 1990s.

Eurovision Song Contest hopeful Olly Alexander has revealed how he was left sobbing after a heartbreaking TV moment. The former Years And Years singer, who's representing the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, 11 May, was filming Channel 4's award-winning drama series It's A Sin when filming had to be halted.

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around 2013—are back in the news for a terrifying reason.In a on April 26, it was revealed that multiple people may have been infected with HIV after undergoing the procedure at a wellness spa in New Mexico. According to the report, a woman with “no known HIV risk factors” was diagnosed with HIV in 2018 after “exposure to needles from cosmetic platelet-rich plasma microneedling facials.”The owner of the spa, which closed in the fall of 2018, did not have the appropriate licenses to practice the procedure, which involves drawing blood from an individual, which is then spun in a centrifuge to separate the red blood cells from the platelet-rich plasma (PRP).

Look Into It with Eddie Bravo podcast in February, the NFL quarterback suggested that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former chief medical advisor to the president of the United States, and the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, had played a key role in the creating AIDS epidemic, which served as the “blueprint” for the COVID-19 pandemic.Video clips of the interview largely went unreported and didn’t create much controversy until they were re-shared and widely circulated on social media this week.

The Food and Drug Administration is planning to lift its ban on sperm donations from men who have sex with men, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The report also says the FDA would simultaneously lift the ban on donations of other tissues and organs from gay and bisexual men.

separate court case.However, since 2022, the Pentagon has stopped discharging active-duty service members due to their HIV status.That year, a Virginia federal judge ruled that the military could not discharge, refuse to commission, or categorically bar people with HIV from deploying, especially if they are asymptomatic and virally suppressed — making it highly unlikely that they can pass the virus to others.Additionally, in 2022, Davidson County voters approved an amendment to Metro Nashville’s charter removing the requirement that police recruits abide by military fitness standards, instead allowing the Civil Service Commission to set its own requirements. Subsequently, in 2023, Doe, enlisting the help of Lambda Legal, sued the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, arguing that the Metro Nashville Police Department’s policies were not only discriminatory but violated federal law, including the Americans with Disabilities Act.As part of the settlement, the Metro Nashville government not only must provide Doe with monetary relief, but agrees to update and rewrite the city’s Civil Service Medical Examiner’s policies to make clear that people living with HIV are no longer categorically banned from serving as first responders or police officers.“I feel vindicated,” Doe said following the settlement.

“We are the voices, we speak up for all those people who died… I think we all know that we’re their voice forever” – the moment that the typically unwavering voice of one of Manchester’s most stalwart public figures was cut through with tears.

Naman Ramachandran MTV Staying Alive Foundation, Paramount Global and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have partnered on “In Bloom,” a short film anthology focusing on gender equity. Directed by emerging female filmmakers from Nigeria, Kenya, India, the U.S. and Brazil, the anthology addresses a range of issues including period poverty, child marriage, gender-based violence, HIV self- stigma, family planning and women’s economic empowerment.

EXCLUSIVE: ITV is on the hunt for a Mr Bates vs the Post Office successor and has landed on the devastating contaminated blood scandal, with Peter Moffat attached.

Philadelphia and Memphis top the list of metropolitan areas with the highest incidence of STDs in the United States, according to an annual analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The seventh annual study, by Innerbody Research, the largest online medical and wellness testing guide, drew its data from the CDC’s latest STD Surveillance data, ranking the top 100 metropolitan areas based on the number of cases, per 100,000 population, of HIV, gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis. The latter three diseases are among the most commonly reported new sexually transmitted infections.According to the analysis, the top 10 cities with the highest STD rates were:The data — marking the first from the post-COVID-lockdown period — shows that Philadelphia jumped from having the fifth-highest STD infection rate in last year’s study to the highest rate in this year’s study.

LGBT activist Paul Fairweather has been awarded an MBE in the King’s New Year Honours List 2023.

A health warning has been issued amid a 'concerning rise' in cases of Shigella, a gut infection that is 'very infectious'.

Meghan Markle has shared her unique Christmas gift ideas, which include everything from dog leashes to eco-friendly socks. Writing on her now-closed blog, The Tig, the Duchess of Sussex suggested six potential presents for the festive season.