EDGE New England

A student running for the University o Huston-Downtown’s vice president was the victim of a smear campaign that revealed his HIV status to the public.

Instead of protecting from malicious intentional infection, criminalizing HIV has only had a negative effect on public health -- not to mention HIV-positive accused individuals.

Although many people can now live long, healthy lives with HIV, the stigma remains, keeping people from getting tested and fomenting violence and discrimination. Groups like The Stigma Project work to neutralize this stigma.

Policies that criminalize HIV non-disclosure are meant to reduce transmission, but instead can prevent people from getting tested, for fear of arrest. The non-profit Sero is working to educate people on how these laws play out.

For HIV-positive MSM, Internet dating and hook-ups just got easier with Volttage, a website founded by AIDS activist Jack Mackenroth that breaks down the stereotypes that haunt PLWHAs.

A gay HIV positive man is suing a Catholic hospital in Elizabeth, N.J.,after a doctor refused to give him his medication and prohibited his sister from visiting him.

The New York-based HIV Law Project is a one-of-a-kind non-profit law firm that helps the HIV+ in ongoing fights to preserve the privacy of their status; ensure that they don’t suffer discrimination; and receive proper healthcare.

David Dean Smith, an HIV-positive Michigan man, recently turned himself into authorities amid shocking claims that he has had sex with 3,000 men and women with the intent of inflecting them with AIDS.

Outrage (& some support) greeted the private Hershey School’s recent decision not to allow an HIV+ youth admission. EDGE looked at both sides of an issue still contentious over 25 years after Ryan White’s death.

According to a new study by the Williams Institute, it was revealed that 5 percent of dental offices in Los Angeles County have an unlawful policy that refuse to treat people who have HIV.