DURHAM, N.C. – Researchers from the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) announced today that the HPTN 083 clinical trial showed that a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) regimen containing long-acting cabotegravir (CAB LA) injected once every 8 weeks was superior to daily …
The 23rd International AIDS Conference – also known this year as AIDS 2020: Virtual – is underway this week, as researchers, physicians, and advocates around the globe log in for the world’s largest virtual conference on HIV. The Fenway Institute …
BOSTON, June 30, 2020—An editorial published in The British Journal of Psychiatry calls for the development of alternative psychiatric care frameworks that affirm transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) people without pathologizing them through clinical diagnoses. The editorial was authored by researchers …
A new editorial in the British Journal of Psychology looks at the current state of psychiatric diagnoses – and the limitations of those diagnoses – for transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) patients. It also lays out a vision for a future …
The Fenway Institute is excited to announce our newest COVID-19 study as part of our continuing efforts to aid in the search for a COVID-19 vaccine. This study is aiming to learn more about the COVID-19 infection and how the …
The Fenway Institute is pleased to announce that registration is open for the 2020 Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health Conference. The conference will take place virtually from October 17 to October 19. You can register here.
This conference is …
In a historic moment for global LGBTQIA+ rights, the United Nations has issued a report calling for an end to the dangerous and medically-discredited practice of conversion therapy. Conversion therapy practices, the UN states, are “interventions of a wide …
We are pleased to announce that the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)’s Bureau of Primary Health Care has awarded the National LGBT Health Education Center at The Fenway Institute a funding renewal of $1.9 million through 2023.
In addition …
A new paper published May 25 in the journal LGBT Health presents guidelines for providing gender-affirming care of trans masculine patients enrolled in the iPledge program for treatment of severe inflammatory or scarring acne. Recommendations include collecting gender identity data …
Larry Kramer, lifelong AIDS activist, playwright, and icon of the LGBTQIA+ community, passed away Wednesday at the age of 84. Kramer was renowned for his passionate, uncompromising work during the height of the AIDS epidemic.
He was a co-founder of …
