HIV & AIDS

FDA releases plan to ease restrictions on gay blood donation

The Food and Drug Administration is outlining its plan to end the nation's lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, a 32-year-old policy that many medical groups and gay activists say is no longer justified.

HIV & AIDS

US mulls lifting ban on gay blood donations (Update)

A US ban on blood donations by gays could be eased after 31 years, depending on the decision of a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee that began two days of meetings Tuesday.

HIV & AIDS

Greece: HIV infections ease after spike

Health authorities in Greece say the number of HIV infections fell in 2013 for the first time since the start of the financial crisis.

HIV & AIDS

New effort to halt spread of HIV in the Caribbean

A handful of sex workers sit on discarded cardboard along a filthy sewer channel, sharing food and razors to shave their legs and faces as they prepare for the night's labor on the streets of Jamaica's capital.

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