LGBT Center focuses on monkeypox as cases in NC rise – Spectrum News
RALEIGH, N.C. — Concerns are growing in North Carolina after the World Health Organization declared the monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency.Vaccination efforts are underway across the state, including in Cumberland...
Biden Rule Would Strengthen Health Protections for Gay and Transgender People – The New...
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said Monday that it intends to enshrine anti-discrimination protections for gay and transgender people in the Affordable Care Act — a proposal that would officially reverse...
As Monkeypox Spread in New York, 300,000 Vaccine Doses Sat in Denmark – The...
On the Thursday before Pride Weekend last month, hundreds of men dropped what they were doing and raced to a city-run health clinic in Manhattan. Finally, more than a month after...
Palm Springs mayor calls on CDC, CDPH to shift strategies with monkeypox vaccines –...
Palm Springs Mayor Lisa Middleton is calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the California Department of Public Health to shift their strategy when it comes to acquiring and...
A big investment for healthy communities in Wilmington – 1150AM/101.7FM WDEL
Healthy Communities Delaware is getting an injection of three million dollars through a public-private investment from the State of Delaware and Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Delaware.Highmark is matching the...
The Best Way to Slow the Spread of Monkeypox – TIME
Only July 23rd, World Health Organization declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). It was a contentious decision, with WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus making the...
Discrimination Still Harms LGBTQ+ Mental Health – Everyday Health
“I am a homosexual. I am a psychiatrist.”When these words were uttered in 1972 at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in Dallas, the medical group still considered...
Walgreens taps The Old Gays to tout its digital prescription services – Drug Store...
Walgreens has come up with an innovative way to introduce customers to its digital prescription services.The retailer has created a video featuring The Old Gays, a team comprised of Jessay Martin,...
Perspective | The HIV rights activist whose work can guide the abortion rights movement...
Listen8 minComment on this storyCommentGift ArticleThe U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade means that in 17 states with trigger bans, abortion is already illegal or will soon be....
Fauci Says Gay Men Should Get Monkeypox Vaccine First – Newsweek
Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to the president, has said men who have sex with men (MSM) should be among those prioritized for the monkeypox vaccine in the United States.Monkeypox...
Health disparities percolate into work-based coverage – Axios
The more than 150 million Americans who get their health coverage through work face significant inequities by race and ethnicity while managing complex health conditions, a new analysis from Morgan Health...
Monday Mind Talks: Here’s how societal pressure affects the mental health of genderqueer teenagers...
LGBT individuals have become more accepted and welcomed in India during the past decade, particularly in urban areas. However, the majority of LGBT persons in India continue to live a secretive...
Biden Rule Would Strengthen Health Protections for Gay and … – The New York...
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said Monday that it intends to enshrine anti-discrimination protections for gay and transgender people in the Affordable Care Act — a proposal that would officially reverse...
Senior Health Official: Monkeypox ‘Can Be Contained’ in U.S. – TIME
Monkeypox “can be contained” in the U.S., with the goal of eventually eliminating the illness as testing and vaccinations ramp up, the White House’s Covid-19 response coordinator said. Ashish Jha...
Monkeypox vaccine pop-ups overwhelmed as at-risk gay men rush to get jab – iNews
Monkeypox vaccine pop-ups in London have been overwhelmed as at-risk gay men rush to get the jab. Some people queued for more than four hours at a pop-up at Guy’s Hospital...
Ohio’s hostile politics have turned my friends into LGBTQ refugees, fleeing the state just...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A couple weeks ago, a friend from high school sent me a text saying, “OMFG I can’t believe how awful things are!” Then I asked her if we...
Responding to the monkeypox outbreak: perspectives of clinicians treating patients with the disease –...
In just over two months a global outbreak of monkeypox in non-endemic countries has led to more than 15 000 cases, with over two thirds reported in the WHO European Region....
Why Did Sebastian Köhn Get Monkeypox? – The American Conservative
A reader sends this gruesome Guardian story about a gay NYC man's experience with monkeypox. The reader highlights Sebastian Köhn's (the victim's) description of the pain of having this disease. Excerpts:...
WHO declares monkeypox a global health emergency as infections soar – The Washington Post
Listen7 minComment on this storyCommentGift ArticleThe World Health Organization on Saturday declared the international monkeypox outbreak a global emergency, a decision that underscores concerns about rapidly spreading infections sparked by...
Achieving the Triple Aim for Sexual and Gender Minorities | NEJM – nejm.org
Recently enacted and proposed legislation threatens the fundamental rights of members of sexual and gender minority (SGM) groups in the United States. Many of these policies harm health and limit access...
City officials hit bars and clubs to spread word about monkeypox – Spectrum News...
After 5 p.m. on Friday, Friend's Tavern, a gay bar in Queens, served up more than cocktails — there were flyers passed around the bar with information about monkeypox, the virus...
The Agony of an Early Case of Monkeypox – The New Yorker
On the evening before Juneteenth, Joseph Osmundson, one of my best friends and a microbiologist at N.Y.U., texted me: “We think Andy has monkeypox.” Two nights earlier, our friend Andy, as...
First cases of monkeypox in children in U.S. confirmed – The Washington Post
Listen5 minComment on this storyCommentGift ArticleThe first two U.S. cases of monkeypox in children have been confirmed as part of a record outbreak of more than 2,800 infections nationwide, a...
Biden administration considering public health emergency in response to monkeypox outbreak – CNBC
A Northwell Health staff member holds the monkeypox vaccine, at Cherry Grove on Fire Island, New York, where monkey pox vaccines were administered on July 14, 2022.James Carbone | Newsday |...
LGBTQ center says dept. of health’s monkeypox findings are ‘unfair’ and ‘creating more stigmatizing...
The monkeypox virus is not the only disease spreading in Florida, but there is also an outbreak of meningococcal disease as well.The Florida Department of Health reports that there have...
Monkeypox is being driven overwhelmingly by sex between men, major study finds – NBC...
The global monkeypox outbreak is primarily being driven by sex between men, according to the first major peer-reviewed paper to analyze a large set of cases of the virus.The outbreak, which...
News Releases from Department of Health | DOH reports three additional monkeypox cases –...
DOH reports three additional monkeypox cases
Posted on Jul 22, 2022 in Newsroom
HONOLULU – The Hawaiʻi Department of Health (DOH) has identified three additional cases of monkeypox. This brings the total...
Are jokesters screwing up our data on gay teenagers? – Buffalo News
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)(THE CONVERSATION) Teens are mischievous, not to be trusted. You’ve probably heard the trope before –...
Are jokesters screwing up our data on gay teenagers? – Roanoke Times
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)(THE CONVERSATION) Teens are mischievous, not to be trusted. You’ve probably heard the trope before –...
California’s LGBTQ community anxious as monkeypox cases rise – Los Angeles Times
Antonio Palacios recovered from COVID-19 in early June just in time for back-to-back weekends at Southern California’s largest Pride celebrations — in West Hollywood and Los Angeles — where he immersed...
Palm Springs isn’t getting enough monkeypox vaccines, say DAP Health and Rep. Raul Ruiz...
Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley need far more doses of monkeypox vaccines given their concentration of gay men, who have been most at risk during the current outbreak, say the head of...
Supporting LGBTQ+ Workers’ Mental Health – HBR.org Daily
I grew up in a predominantly white, heteronormative town in a household eclipsed by a parent who struggled with alcoholism. As a child of immigrants seeking to understand his own sexual...
‘It takes 5 minutes’: Gay and bi men in London urged to get Monkeypox...
An LGBTQ+ activist is urging gay men in London to book a Monkeypox vaccine as cases of the disease continue to rise in the UK. Joey Knock, 32, an...
Mental health funding takes center stage, but for different reasons in Texas, Victoria –...
Gov. Greg Abbott and state lawmakers have made a point to focus funding and resources on mental health care, so much so they’re willing to spend over $100 million as...