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Thomas Kahlert, one of 13 people worldwide considered cured of HIV, has stepped out under his own name as Berlin's Charité opens BeCURE, a research centre named in part after him. Why his case matters, and why a stem cell transplant isn't the answer for most people.
A month after the raids began, a group of independent UN human rights experts says Türkiye is using obscenity, morality and prostitution charges, frozen-out donors and blocked accounts to shut down LGBTI rights work. Here's what they found and what they're asking for.
A new Human Rights Watch report documents hundreds of arrests, forced HIV tests and lawyers scared off cases since Senegal doubled its penalties for same-sex relations. The Youth Olympic Games open in Dakar on October 31.
Grindr has agreed to buy PurposeMed, the parent company of HIV-prevention telehealth service Freddie, and fold it into a new Grindr Health. It could put PrEP a few taps from millions of users in the US and Canada. It also puts sensitive health care inside a dating app.
On September 26, Gavin Newsom signed a six-bill package aimed squarely at Trump administration policies: help for trans service members pushed out of the military, shields for gender-affirming care records, an updated conversion therapy law and more PrEP access.
Washington's Department of Health ordered the Seattle LGBTQ+ Center to switch HIV and STI testing to a LabCorp-owned lab in San Antonio, just as Texas escalates its hunt for queer medical records.
Outright International surveyed 229 LGBTIQ organisations worldwide. 203 had lost funding since January 2025, 36% expect to close within a year, and 3% call themselves stable. The detail is worse than the headline.
Grindr has settled a UK group action over pre-2020 data sharing that allegedly included users' HIV status. No liability was admitted. The useful question is what the case says about the data dating apps still hold.
The White House has ended direct federal funding for HIV prevention at 96 community-based organizations, rerouting the money through state health departments with no requirement it reach the groups doing the work.
From April 20, all Australian blood donors face the same screening questions regardless of sexual orientation or gender. The change ends a 1980s-era restriction that kept queer men and trans people from donating even while in monogamous relationships.
