New blood donation regulations screening donors based on sexual history rather than sexual orientation have been implemented in Mexico, making it the first country in North America to end its ban on men who have sex with men donating blood.
A team of scientists at the Center for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) found that two South African women infected with HIV were able to produce antibodies that neutralized and killed 88% of known strains of the virus.
A doctor with a Christian sect who prescribed a drug used to chemically castrate sex offenders to a gay teenager to treat his sexuality will no longer be allowed to practice as a GP.