2 days ago

How do I know when I’ve hit perimenopause? ⊕

found 2026 › Jun › 07 (Sun) @ 16:31 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Doctors say diagnosis is usually clinical and doesn’t rely on a blood test, with symptoms often starting in the mid-40s

There’s a special frisson to period changes in your mid-forties. Every deviation…

11 days ago

Tenderness and Rage: how groups affected by HIV found power, comfort and joy in Aids activism ⊕⊕

found 2026 › May › 29 (Fri) @ 08:15 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

London exhibition explores how care and protest improved rights and dignity of those living with disease

From photos of a mass “die-in” by Aids activists in Trafalgar Square, London, in the 1990s to p…

20 days ago

A moment that changed me: My diagnosis seemed like a death sentence – how have I survived for another 40 years? ⊕⊕

found 2026 › May › 20 (Wed) @ 06:13 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

To HIV researchers, I am an ‘elite controller’ – someone whose immune system has enabled them to live for decades without symptoms or medication. I hope that one day science will understand this tiny…

34 days ago

Jimpa review – Olivia Colman and John Lithgow show up for indulgent queer family drama ⊕

found 2026 › May › 06 (Wed) @ 06:23 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Sophie Hyde’s semi-autobiographical tale about sexual identity and intergenerational dynamics falls flat, but is buoyed by Colman and Lithgow’s committed performances

Sophie Hyde has directed an earne…

47 days ago

'In that moment, everything shattered': Boy, 15, was getting off the school bus when he found out he had HIV - after being deliberately infected by rapist predator ⊖⊖

found 2026 › Apr › 23 (Thu) @ 18:15 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Sex shop worker Adam Hall, 43, of Washington, Tyne and Wear, was today sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 23 years.

Man who raped young men and deliberately gave them HIV jailed for life ⊖⊖

found 2026 › Apr › 23 (Thu) @ 15:48 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Adam Hall, of Tyne and Wear, will serve at least 23 years in prison, with victims describing lasting trauma

A “callous, calculating sexual predator” who raped and deliberately infected young, vulnerab…

Rapist who deliberately infected five young men and two teenagers, aged 15 and 17, with HIV is jailed ⊖

found 2026 › Apr › 23 (Thu) @ 15:48 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Adam Hall, 43, has been sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court for life with a minimum term of 23 years.

50 days ago

Beyond the UK and US manosphere lies a deeper, darker global problem ⊖⊖

found 2026 › Apr › 20 (Mon) @ 10:12 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

In this week’s newsletter: the rise of misogyny around the world; the Sudan war enters its fourth year; and a key vote on slave trade reparations

I finally got round to watching Louis Theroux’s Inside…

52 days ago

‘Ignorance and cruelty’: former USAID official details devastation inflicted by Doge cuts ○

found 2026 › Apr › 18 (Sat) @ 12:27 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Nicholas Enrich was an eyewitness to the dismantling of the US foreign aid organization by the Trump administration

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54 days ago

Man CURED of HIV through groundbreaking transplant from his brother in first-of-its-kind procedure ○

found 2026 › Apr › 16 (Thu) @ 17:12 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

In 2008, Timothy Ray Brown (pictured left) become the first-ever patient cured of HIV. Now, another man in Norway has been cured with the same procedure using cells from his brother.