Cyndi Lauper, nominated for a Tony Award for writing the songs for the current Broadway musical Kinky Boots, warns people who weren't around during the AIDS crisis that HIV is still not something you want to have.

I’ve been a supporter of NAT (National AIDS Trust), the UK’s leading HIV campaigning charity, for five years now. One of the reasons I support them is I am passionate about increasing the public’s understanding of HIV – not only to reduce the spread of the virus, but to help eradicate the stigma that unfortunately many people with HIV face.

Over the next year NAT will be campaigning for sex education in schools to better tackle the issue of HIV and address same-sex relationships.

This is an issue that is close to my heart.

Gay British actor Rupert Everett is in trouble for accidentally using some 'fruity language' on daytime television yesterday (1 May).

The ‘Hysteria’ actor was appearing as a guest on ITV’s Loose Women when he said ‘fuck’ during a discussion about HIV.

Everett was talking about when he was convinced he had contracted HIV when shooting a television show in the 1980s.

He said: ‘For the first few years of HIV, you couldn’t test for it. When my whole career started I thought I was on a death sentence.

West Hollywood city councilor John Duran is urging people who attended California's Palm Springs’ White Party over the Easter weekend to get vaccinated against meningitis after one of his constituents died from the disease.

Gay lawyer Brett Shaad, 31, (pictured) died at around 4.45pm yesterday after being taken off life support.

Shaad had fallen into a coma and become brain dead from the disease earlier in the week.

He had been one of around 10,000 people who had attended the popular gay circuit party which attracts party goers from across the US.

Gay sex is to blame for most of 2,000 new HIV infections in China last year, according to health experts.

Over 1,700 college students were infected with HIV in 2012, approximately 65% of which were contracted through sex with people of the same gender, according to Xinhau News Agency.

Most of the 1,700 cases were male students, said deputy director of the National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention Wang Ning.

Ning said that more people getting tested for HIV is one reason for a rise in new cases.

When was the last time you thought about being a superhero and saving a life?

When I ask people, 'Who is an everyday superhero?' you might answer a firefighter, police officer, doctor, those in the military who serve our country. But we can all potentially be a superhero. You may already be one and not even know it, because you can donate blood.

Each time we donate blood we can save up to three lives. Someone who has suffered a car accident can use an average 100 pints of blood. At that moment when you donate blood you are saving a life. That makes you a hero.

A proposed bill in Kansas is calling for people with HIV or AIDS to be quarantined.

Lawmakers are close to passing a new law discriminating against those who have HIV or AIDS, forcing them to be isolated or have their movements restricted.

Kansas House Bill 2183, which has passed in the Kansas Senate, will update the state’s public health statute by allowing quarantine of Kansans with ‘infectious diseases.’

HIV-positive patients who were treated early have stayed healthy even after stopping treatment, French researchers have revealed.

Their research shows early medical intervention may lead to a ‘functional cure’ for AIDs.

Published in the US journal PLoS Pathogens, only involved 14 adults, and were treated for their HIV with a range of anti-retroviral drugs within 10 weeks of infection.

All of them stopped treatment around three years afterwards on average.

Health organizations are urging caution after a child born with HIV appears to have been ‘cured’.

The two-year-old girl was born in rural Mississippi and anti-retroviral treatment (ART) was administered approximately 30 hours after birth.

By one month old, HIV could no longer be detected in the baby’s blood using standard laboratory tests, and the virus continued to be undetectable up to 26 months of age.

A gay man has said he was ‘humiliated’ when he was forced to reveal his positive HIV status at a job center.

Jayce Carberry, 22, said staff in Maidstone, Kent, made him declare his condition in front of other jobseekers.

An advisor even said he would have to seek legal advice about what sort of contact Carberry could have with other staff.

‘His [the advisor’s] reply was I’ll have to speak to my legal team to see if we have to disclose your HIV status to any members of the staff you come into contact with in this building,’ he told the BBC.

There has been a 55% increase in HIV infections among gay men since 2005, according to the Israeli ministry of health figures.

According to the figures the rate of HIV infection among gay men is 4.5 times the rate of infection among heterosexuals, reported Haaretz daily.

A host of celebrities say that AIDS can be overcome through love, by tweeting an image of their blood along with the word 'Love Is In My Blood'.