Nearly one-third of people living with HIV in the United States are over the age of fifty, according to a comprehensive report on HIV among older adults released today by GMHC (the Gay Men's Health Crisis). "Growing older with the epidemic: Aging and HIV" provides a striking overview of current knowledge on older adults and HIV. This population is growing at a startling rate, increasing by over 61% from 2001 to 2007, posing many unknowns and challenges. This groundbreaking report provides a roadmap to understand and address the needs of this burgeoning population of older Americans.

On Sunday, March 21, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the health care reform bill by a 219-212 vote. The bill, which was approved by the Senate in December 2009, makes a giant leap forward in expanding access to health care for 32 million Americans, and constitutes the greatest expansion of federal health care guarantees since 1965 when Medicare was first enacted. This vote in the House of Representatives, after more than a year of heated debate, marks a huge victory for the American people, both those with insurance and those without.

HealthHIV, one of the nation’s largest HIV non-profit organizations, is moving into the house previously occupied by MTV during the filming of “Real World DC.” The organization’s 20 person staff is leasing the historic, DuPont Circle property which played host to the cast and crew of the 23rd season of MTV’s reality show.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released new statistics on incidence rates of HIV and syphilis among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM). The data, which identified MSM as men who have engaged sexually with another man within the last five years, revealed that MSM are over 44 times more likely than other men to contract HIV, and over 40 times more likely than women to contract HIV. Further, MSM were over 46 times more likely to contract syphilis than other men, and over 71 times more likely than women to contract syphilis.