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Improve access to mental health treatment and services and promote public awareness of mental illness.

A community leader and academic, Simmons also led the DC-based HIV nonprofit Us Helping Us. He died of prostate cancer.

Gilead Sciences provides the funds through its TRANScend initiative; Destination Tomorrow in the Bronx distributes them.

Four key findings mined from patient-led research by the Body Politic COVID-19 Support Group

We have more than 30 years of lessons learned from fighting HIV, hepatitis and STIs, reads a letter to Vice President Pence.

Black and Hispanic children don’t receive the same care for fracture pain as their white counterparts.

About 1.4 million adults in the United States identify as transgender. Many are at high risk of HIV.

Watch the NBA icon also discuss HIV, racial health disparities and the return of sports during the coronavirus crisis.

“Brave spaces” are needed, says Lamar Brown-Noguera of AIDS Project Worcester. Here’s how the group is adjusting to the COVID-19 crisis.

“We must keep up momentum or else the results could be disastrous for people living with HIV.”

Plus: Any restriction of civil and political rights must meet these five specific criteria.

Black and Hispanic patients who call for appointments are also more likely than whites to be asked about their insurance status.

When treated at nonminority hospitals, however, Black patients experienced a 3% decrease in mortality over a 10-year period.

The incident prompted New York activists to rally against HIV stigma and for bail reform.

311 trans and gender-nonconforming people were murdered in the past year worldwide, according to a new report.

The program’s home will be Callen-Lorde’s in-the-works site in downtown Brooklyn.