An HIV-positive Texas university student only wants an apology from the individuals who papered the school with his personal medical records.

Openly gay Kristopher Sharp, who recently announced his plan to run for student body president at the University of Houston-Downtown, was called into the Dean’s office this week where he was shown a flyer calling his candidacy a ‘homosexual agenda’.

The front side of the flyer showed his photo sandwiched between ‘WANT AIDS?’ and ‘DON’T SUPPORT THE Isaac and Kris HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA’.

Mental stress from poverty and discrimination can contribute to HIV among gay men, a new study reveals.

The findings, published in the journal AIDS and Behavior, revealed a relationship between mental trauma, drug abuse and risky sexual behavior.

'The more burden these men face for being persons of color, economically disadvantaged, homosexual, foreign born, and simply discriminated against, impact their mental health,' said director of the study Perry Halkitis.

Three Nigerian men have gone into hiding after suffering a gruesome assault where they were stripped naked, paraded in public and endured savage beatings for allegedly having gay sex.

In a story reported by GSN earlier this week, the three men were taken to their tribal chief and handed over to the police, at the village of Ekwe near the city of Umuaka in a remote corner of the south eastern state of Imo.

The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has revealed a plan to control the AIDS epidemic in the next four years.

According to a State Department document unveiled today (29 November), Clinton says the goal of an ‘AIDs-free generation’ by starting more infected people on AIDS drugs, circumcising men in high-prevalence countries and making sure every pregnant and infected woman is treated.

An Australian DJ has become an ambassador for an anti-HIV stigma charity ahead of the International Aids Conference to be held in Melbourne in 2014.

Dean Beck of Joy FM joins Olympic Silver medallist Ji Wallace as an ambassador for ENUF, an Australian-based charity designed to break down HIV stigmas and increase resilience.

Of his experiences with HIV positive people Beck said: ‘Some of my best friends were HIV positive.

The Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has announced the government will spend $168 million US dollars fighting the spread of HIV and AIDS in the country over the next three years.

One of the goals of the funding is that by 2015, 60% of people aged 15 to 49 will know how to protect themselves from HIV, Vietnam News reports.

The Australian state of Queensland has produced a new advertising campaign reviving a controversial cultural icon from the 1980's Australian fight against AIDS to raise awareness about HIV after stripping the state’s only LGBT community health organization of all funding.

A new analysis on the sexual health of black gay men has found that they have twice the chance of being HIV-positive in comparison to white gay men.

The study published in medical journal The Lancet found that both white and black gay men displayed similar sexual risk behaviours across the US, UK and Canada.

Statistically, there was no significant difference in the way the different ethnic groups practised unprotected anal intercourse and sex with men of a different HIV status, number of partners they had, drug use and protective behaviours.

Elton John is feeling reflective these days.

He has written a memoir, Love is the Cure: On Life, Loss and the End of AIDS, in which he details his drug use during the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.

On the day I was born, London free-sheet Capital Gay ran a front page article under the headline ‘US disease hits London’. It announced that four gay men, one of them Terry Higgins, had died of a mysterious new illness, rumors of which had been circulating since the previous year.

Terry, who died on 4 July 1982, aged 37, had become the first person in the UK to be publicly identified as dying with what was then referred to as GRID (gay-related immune deficiency) but what we now know as AIDS.

There are 2.5 million gay men in India, 0.2% of the 1.2 billion population , according to figures from the National Aids Council.

The figures were presented to Delhi Supreme Court yesterday in response to an affidavit during the current case re-examining the high court 2009's decriminalisation of gay sex.