The Fenway Institute has announced Project BUILD, a new research study that will examine how body image and appearance concerns affect the self-care of HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM). The object of this six month research study …
March 23-27 marks the 13th Annual LGBT Health Awareness Week, created by the National Coalition for LGBT Health. During this week, we encourage all to examine how LGBT-specific health concerns and disparities have affected our lives and the lives …
Fenway Health is pleased to announce the publication of a new report highlighting our commitment to gender affirming care. Comprehensive Transgender Healthcare: The Gender Affirming Clinical and Public Health Model of Fenway Health. This report, which explains our care …
Dr. Harvey Makadon, Director of the National LGBT Health Education Center at The Fenway Institute, visited the University of Alabama at Birmingham last week to give a presentation on LGBT health concerns. As a leading national authority on LGBT health …
When Jim McDonnel took his first steps for AIDS Walk Boston, HIV/AIDS was greatly misunderstood and widely stigmatized. Mentions of AIDS-related deaths flooded LGBT newspapers. Entire communities were falling ill. Despite the urgency felt by those affected and their loved …
The 2015 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections was recently held in Seattle. This conference, often called CROI for short, is one of the biggest annual scientific meetings on HIV/AIDS, opportunistic illnesses, and the health consequences of living with HIV.…
If you ask Bette Byrnes, a longtime AIDS Walk Boston and 5K Run supporter, why she still makes the trip from Florida to Boston every June, she doesn’t have to think about her answer: it’s about home and family.
“I’m …
Facing an enormous shortfall of over $1 billion in next year’s budget, Governor Baker released his proposal for fiscal year 2016 cutting $2.3 million in HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C funding. These reductions are concerning and could threaten the high quality, …
Fenway Health’s HPV (human papillomavirus) Improvement Team has been named a 2015 MA Adult Immunization Champion by the Massachusetts Adult Immunization Coalition (MAIC). This annual award recognizes individuals or organizations that have made an outstanding contribution to the promotion …
