By John Celock for HuffPost. 
A Kansas bill would repeal the state’s 1988 ban on quarantining individuals with HIV and AIDS as part of broader changes to its public health practices.
Under the proposal — which has passed the Republican-controlled state House of Representatives and is pending in the Republican-controlled state Senate — the power to issue any public health quarantine, as necessary, would …

By Rob Stein for NPR.
The American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday announced its first major shift on circumcision in more than a decade, concluding that the health benefits of the procedure clearly outweigh any risks.
“There is clear evidence that supports the health benefits of circumcision,” said Susan Blank, who led the 14-member task force that formulated the new policy being published in …

By Michael Broder for HuffPost.
Six months after issuing its first alert about a deadly meningitis outbreak among gay men in New York City, the Department of Health (DOH) has expanded its vaccine recommendations to include all gay men, regardless of HIV status, throughout New York City, not just in certain Brooklyn neighborhoods.
This is a change from the recommendations issued last September and discussed by …

By Brian Moylan for VICE.
There is nothing more disappointing than taking a new guy home for the first time and ripping his clothes off, only to find that he has “manscaped” himself to look like some sort of dude-shaped topiary. When I bring home a man, I want to see a masculine wreath of pubes around his dick, not a …

By Mark S. King for HuffPost.
The turning point could be traced to August of 1998. It was the month that, for the first time in well over a decade, the Bay Area Reporter did not have a single AIDS obituary submitted for publication. The promise of protease inhibitor medications had been realized, and it felt for many that our long community …

From HuffPost.
People with well-controlled HIV through antiretroviral therapy have no higher risk of dying than people without HIV, according to a new study in the journal AIDS.
The study included 3,300 people with HIV with an average age of 43, who were on antiretroviral therapy and had undetectable HIV levels and high levels of CD4+ immune cells. Most of the participants were …

By Cavan Sieczkowski for HuffPost. 
A new study has shown that bee venom can kill the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have demonstrated that a toxin called melittin found in bee venom can destroy HIV by poking holes in the envelope surrounding the virus, according to a news release sent out by Washington University.
Nanoparticles smaller …

By Mark S. King for HuffPost.
My fear of all things anal began when I was an early teen. My older brother David took great delight in bursting into our bathroom to startle me, especially if I was on the john, and because I was a pubescent redhead, his sudden visits included a lot of laughing and pointing. I was mortified …