The U.S. blood banking system also halts donations from people who have had sex with a prostitute or an intravenous drug user in the past 12 months.

And plans to redevelop the Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center.

This post is brought to you by Whitman-Walker Health. The past three decades have seen incredible change in the HIV landscape. A diagnosis is no longer a death sentence. We now know how to prevent and diagnose HIV better than ever. And, perhaps most importantly, those living with the virus are no longer viewed as only the virus—HIV care has come to mean treating the whole person, helping them live the kind of healthy and…

In its 27th year, AIDS Walk Washington is changing its name to “[reflect] a cataclysmic shift to what HIV is today.”

Recent statistics show that more people in the District are getting tested for HIV/AIDS, earlier. That’s no reason to wait, though.