The University of British Columbia has granted club status to roughly 300 student groups, but its student-funded Alma Mater Society (AMS) has refused to authorize an HIV/AIDS club for the past three years, Canadian newspaper The Province reports (canada.com, 4/14).
Since 2006, at least two groups at the university have submitted four separate constitutions to authorize [...]
College Bans Student HIV/AIDS Club
Savio Young Activist Award
This award, which carries a cash prize of $6000, is presented each year to a young person (or persons) with a deep commitment to human rights and social justice and a proven ability to transform this commitment into effective action. The recipients should have demonstrated leadership ability, creativity, and integrity. The cash award is divided [...]
Chinese AIDS Activists Allegedly Beaten by Police
Police beat, shocked and detained 11 people suffering from HIV-AIDS who were trying to protest in front of China’s premier, a Beijing-based activist said Thursday.
The Aizhixing Institute’s Wan Yanhai said the protesters, who all contracted HIV through blood transfusions, were attacked Saturday in front of the municipal government building in Shahe, a town in Hebei [...]
Author Seeks To Be Public Face For Transgendered
Jennifer Finney Boylan never set out to be the public face for the transgendered.
But the novelist and English professor at Colby College was thrust into that role by her 2002 best-selling memoir about the transition to womanhood that freed her from the decades-long torment of being a female trapped in a male body.
With three appearances [...]
AIDS Activist Gregg Gonsalves Receives $100,000 Leadership Award
The John M. Lloyd Foundation announced today that AIDS advocate Gregg Gonsalves has been selected as the first-ever recipient of the $100,000 John M. Lloyd AIDS Leadership Award.
An AIDS activist for 17 years, Gonsalves has played a major role in international efforts to accelerate AIDS research and improve access to lifesaving drugs. He is currently [...]
Hey Asian America, What’s Goin’ On?
I serve as advocacy co-chair of NAASCon and encourage all of you and your friends to submit personal stories and testimonials on your experiences on being Asian American. We are trying to reorient the meaning of “activism,” which does not necessarily require one to participate in vocal protests. Activism ranges from challenging preconceived notions of [...]
Protect Housing for People with AIDS
Housing is one of our most basic needs. Yet, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) wants to limit this human right for many people living with AIDS. HRSA has proposed an amendment that would create a 24-month lifetime cap on Ryan White emergency and transitional housing benefits.
For many people living with AIDS, Ryan White [...]
SJSU suspends blood drives, citing FDA ban on donations by gay men
In a move believed to be the first by a college campus in the nation, San Jose State University President Don Kassing has suspended all campus blood drives because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration bars any man who has had sex with another man from donating blood. “The FDA’s lifetime blood donor deferral affecting [...]