Jacob OglesFebruary 25, 2019
7min903
Equality Florida applauds legislation catching law up to modern science.
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Jacob OglesFebruary 25, 2019
Scott PowersJanuary 25, 2019
4min318
Metro Orlando is home to about 10,000 to 12,000 people living with HIV or AIDS.
Ryan NicolJanuary 7, 2019
6min462
A bipartisan push is behind legislation that would allow for the expansion of Miami-Dade County’s needle exchange program throughout the rest of the state. The bill (HB 171) for the 2019 Legislative Session was filed Monday by state Reps. Shevrin Jones, a West Park Democrat, and Rene “Coach P” Plasencia, an Orlando Republican. In 2016, the Infectious […]
Christine Jordan SextonMarch 30, 20185min349
The largest nonprofit AIDS health care provider in the nation is at risk of being blocked out of South Florida’s Medicaid market. AIDS Healthcare Foundation attorneys filed a written protest and requested a hearing after its managed-care division was not among the health plans selected to negotiate with state Medicaid officials to continue providing care […]
Mitch PerryNovember 8, 2017
2min224
Two Democratic lawmakers filed proposals this week that seek to expand a pilot needle-exchange program approved in 2016 for Miami-Dade County. After four unsuccessful tries, the Legislature finally passed a bill to create needle exchange program in Florida during the 2016 Legislative Session. Modest in scope, the bill was limited to only in Miami-Dade County. […]
Les NeuhausMarch 20, 2017
3min279
Roughly 34 years after the discovery of the virus that causes AIDS, Florida’s lawmakers are considering legislation whose maximum sentence would be death to knowingly spread the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, to a sexual partner without their knowledge, according to a committee that voted favorably Monday in regard to the measure. The bill, HB […]
Jim RosicaMarch 16, 2017
4min290
A law that requires someone with HIV to notify a potential sex partner beforehand applies to same-sex relationships as well as between a man and a woman, the Florida Supreme Court unanimously decided Thursday. The defendant, Gary Debaun, has been trying to have a charge dismissed under a 1986 state law designed to prevent the spread of the […]
Scott PowersJune 9, 2016
5min526
Democratic congressional candidate Bob Poe of Orlando announced Thursday that he has HIV, though he is healthy and has been so since first being diagnosed 18 years ago. Poe, a Democrat running in Florida’s 10th Congressional District, said he struggled all year trying to decide whether, when and how to come out to voters and the public […]
Melissa RossMarch 18, 2016
5min184
Four new cases of the Zika virus were reported in Florida this week, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 66. To help prevent the disease from spreading further, late Thursday night the U.S. Senate approved a bill sponsored by Sen. Bill Nelson and others to speed development of vaccines and treatments for the disease. […]
Phil AmmannFebruary 3, 20164min302
When I was training as a surgeon, HIV and AIDS had just come on the scene. I remember the widespread fear – not only in the public — but throughout the medical and particularly the surgical community. Fear replaced reason and was a barrier to care for patients with HIV/AIDS. It was important to me […]