South African President Kgalema Motlanthe named a gay, HIV- positive jurist to the country's highest court on New Year's Eve, The Star newspaper reported.
Senegal late Tuesday sentenced nine men, most belonging to an association set up to provide HIV/AIDS prevention services to gay men, to eight years for "unnatural acts" and criminal conspiracy, the men's attorney said today.
Zion'z Youth Group, sponsored by the Walls Temple AME Zion Church in Albany, provides area teens a safe place to discuss topics like abstinence, safe sex, body image, and peer pressure.
Public health officials have traced several cases of tuberculosis to bars in the predominantly gay Castro neighborhood, prompting them to ask 140 area employees to be screened for the disease.
The researchers wrote that symptoms among patients with first episode herpes simplex virus (HSV) likely influence their health-seeking and sexual behaviors.
A new report by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine calls for broad improvements in the way the US health care system treats teenagers and pre-teens.
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