Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Florida Man Charged With Criminal Transmission of HIV to a Child After Raping Him

According to police reports, Kelly Major Cooper, 46, allegedly kidnapped a 10-year-old boy from a party in West Park several weeks ago. Cooper then allegedly took the boy to his son's Dania Beach residence, where he locked the child in a bedroom. Cooper then raped the boy and forced him to perform ... More >>

European Pediatricians: American Academy of Pediatrics' Recommendation to Circumcise Baby Boys Is "Questionable, Weak"

After years of studying all the studies about circumcision, the American Academy of Pediatrics last year updated its policy about circumcision of infant boys. Whereas it had previously been neutral on the matter, the organization started recommending the procedure, advising that the benefits outweig ... More >>

President Clinton's Event Disrupted by Anti-Circumcision Activists

Update, 10:34 a.m.: This post was updated with quotes from Anthony Losquardo, executive director of Intaction. Surely, President Clinton was a little freaked out last night when in the middle of his event -- a Clinton Foundation Millennium Network talk in New York featuring the former president, Che ... More >>

29-Year-Old With AIDS Launches Kickstarter-Type Campaign to Pay for Health Care

Valyn Calhoun posted a photo of himself, looking pale and weighing 95 pounds. "I put up a picture of my body," the 29-year-old wrote. "It may scare some, but this is something I see everyday."Calhoun, a photographer who runs in Fort Lauderdale's music and art scenes, contracted HIV and hepatitis C, ... More >>

Wilton Manors to Hold World AIDS Day Candlelight Vigil Saturday

Hard to believe it's been 25 years since a group of folks gathered in San Francisco to commemorate and remember loved ones who had passed away from AIDS. This small gathering gave birth to the AIDS Quilt, which eventually gave birth to World AIDS Day -- officially observed every December 1. On Satu ... More >>

David France on the Plague Years: The History and Survival of ACT UP

Belle Glade Man Arrested for Not Telling Girl He Had Oral Sex With That He Is HIV-Positive

Earl D. Coney Jr. is accused of having oral sex with a 16-year-old girl without telling her he is HIV-positive. On August 28, Coney apparently picked the girl up from her home and brought her to his place, where he expressed a desire to have oral sex with her. She initially spurned his advances, ... More >>

AIDS Healthcare Foundation Worried As FDA Inches Closer to Approving Drug That Might Prevent HIV Transmission

Last week, a committee of experts recommended that the Food and Drug Administration approve the first drug for protecting against HIV transmission.On the surface, it sounds like great news. But as The Pulp reported in January, some doctors have serious concerns that the pill is not as effe ... More >>

Forbes' Gardasil Story Sheds Light on Why Florida's Well-Meaning HPV Legislation Failed

Florida lawmakers tackled lots of pressing issues this past legislative sessions. They debated whether the barking tree frog should be the Sunshine State's official amphibian. They clashed over making it a crime to pick up pecans that have fallen from privately owned trees. The e ... More >>

Florida Anti-Vaccine Group Ignores Facts, Says It's Not Anti-Vaccine

​The Health Regulation Committee on Wednesday voted seven to zip in favor of SB 1116, a proposal to give parents of sixth-graders information on the human papillomavirus vaccine, which helps protect females from cervical cancer. As discussed yesterday, the original version of the bi ... More >>

Florida HPV Vaccine Bill Gets Watered Down Before Going to Committee; Anti-Vaccine Group Still Not Pleased

​Rick Perry tried making it mandatory. Michele Bachmann insinuated that it causes mental retardation. One of the world's top bioethicists bet Bachmann $10,000 to prove this claim. The human papillomavirus vaccine -- which helps protect women from certain strains of HPV that cause cervical cancer - ... More >>

Circumcision and AIDS: Harvard Doctors Respond to Criticism

​Could a whole coalition of highly accomplished, super educated doctors and researchers -- the ones who work at and advise the Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Harvard School of Public Health -- all be wrong? Or are their critics hinderin ... More >>

A Drug That Sort of Prevents HIV Transmission: What Could Go Wrong?

​Imagine a drug that could stop the spread of HIV. People could screw whomever they wanted however they wanted and sleep peacefully knowing that the virus wouldn't soon be waging an all-out assault on their immune systems. It sounds like a quick fix to one of history's most pressing public he ... More >>

Florida AIDS Medicine Waiting List Longest in America

Flickr user: Sully Pixel​More than 3,600 Floridians are on a government waiting list for AIDS medicine -- the longest list in the country, according to the national nonprofit the AIDS Institute. Of the needy patients, 886 live in Palm Beach and Broward counties.The medicine, which keeps patients h ... More >>

BSO Releases New Report That Says Daniel Hay Lewis Claimed to Have AIDS

BSODaniel Hay Lewis​The Broward Sheriff's Office has now released a new "detailed" report on the arrest of Daniel Hay Lewis, claiming that Lewis stated he had AIDS several times before attempting to bite a deputy.Lewis, a Hallandale Beach resident, was arrested May 30 while allegedly trying to ste ... More >>

Daniel Hay Lewis' Bond Reduced as State Starts to Backpedal on HIV-Transmission Charge

BSODaniel Hay Lewis​Apparently it's getting tough for the state to continue prosecuting someone for criminal transmission of HIV when its suspect isn't HIV-positive.Daniel Hay Lewis -- accused by police of attempting to bite a cop in the process of trying to steal $12,000 worth of garden products ... More >>

Daniel Hay Lewis -- Charged With Transmission of HIV -- Doesn't Even Have HIV, Attorney Says

BSODaniel Hay Lewis​Daniel Hay Lewis,a Hallandale Beach resident charged with criminal transmission of HIV after allegedly trying to bite a police officer while being arrested for shoplifting, doesn't actually have HIV, according to his public defender.After allegedly trying to steal $12,000 worth ... More >>

Take a Stand

Elton John Complains to Gov. Rick Scott About HIV/AIDS Funding

broadwaymusicalhome.comElton John: Rocket Man and advocate of Florida's HIV/AIDS program.​Just about everyone has had something to complain about with Gov. Rick Scott lately, and you can add Sir Elton John to that list.On behalf of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, John wrote a letter to the governo ... More >>

Calvin Williams Murder: Why is AIDS Rate so High for Black Men?

Calvin Williams was allegedly killed by his lover.​This spring's murder of L.C. Swain Middle School teacher Calvin Williams brought to light a harsh truth about AIDS among African-American men. For many in South Florida, sex on the down-low is a deadly gamble.According to Riviera Beach police repo ... More >>

Rape Victim Sees Doctor, Loses Health Insurance

flickr.comRape? Sounds like a pre-existing condition to insurance companies.​Christina Turner, a 45-year-old Fort Lauderdale woman, was downtown, letting men at the bar by her drinks. The next thing she remembers is waking up on a roadside with cuts and bruises that indicated she may have been rap ... More >>

Sex Ed Group Targets Florida in War Against Abstinence-Only Education

That's a video from this past April, which gives you some context for the briefing yesterday on Capitol Hill by SIECUS -- the organization that promotes sex education and attacks the abstinence-only curricula that gained momentum during the Bush years.Obama's election brought a halt to that momentu ... More >>

The Dub Club

The Sodom & Gomorrah to Thelma & Louise

WPLG Calls For Naugle To Resign

Letters for April 13-19, 2006

The Protection Racket

And the band plays on

WHEEL L_VE

Letters for November 3-9, 2005

Agitation Nation

Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart brings back a time of acting up

Best Place for a Second Date

Sunrise Health Center

Unsafe Sex

Our intrepid reporter probes the gay orgies that have helped to spark a runaway syphilis outbreak

Acting Out

Whether or not the state helps out AIDS sufferers, last week's botched protest says much about the HIV community's problem

Drug Holiday

Once a leading gay activist, CenterOne cofounder Gary Steinsmith has fallen on hard times

Culture For a Cause

"The One Million Dollar Art Show"

Burning Down the House

After the closing of an apartment building for AIDS victims in Fort Lauderdale, the city's ability to oversee a multimillion-dollar, federally funded program is called into question

Padre Pio's Big Adventure

A little piece of a bleeding Italian priest has traveled here to help in the healing

Letters

Letters

Sexual Roulette

Despite the risk, HIV-positive gay men are engaging in unsafe sex in the wake of improved AIDS medications. Don't believe us? Check out South Florida's "backroom bars."

Best Charity

Poverello Center

Night & Day

February 11 - 17, 1999

Nova, HEAL Thyself

Members of a student group insist bad behavior, not HIV, causes AIDS, and that controversial message is testing academic freedom

Color Blinded

A federal grant earmarked for "African-Americans" with AIDS has care providers in Broward debating linguistics rather than logistics.

An Epidemic of Apathy

Local activists were hoping people would flock to see the AIDS Memorial Quilt. They didn't.

The Dentist Is Out

The closure of a publicly funded children's dental clinic has low-income patients down in the mouth

Cause of Death: Excessive Privacy

You can die HIV-positive in Broward County, and your sexual partners will never know

Enough to Make You Sick

The CDC is trying to determine what the residents of downtown Belle Glade already know -- that poverty, drugs, and prostitution are bad for your health

Letters

The Single-Minded Professor