Archive for December 2024

The study focused on Italian mayors. Our findings support the idea that women face double standards when it comes to political violence. They are targeted even when they make the same decisions as men. Misogyny and gender bias may cause people to judge female leaders more harshly. Using detailed measures of mayoral performance, we found that the gender gap in attacks only appears when mayors perform poorly. In these cases, women are more likely to be targeted than men for similar shortcomings. This aligns with other evidence of double standards against women in the corporate world.

These daily oral antiretrovirals, more commonly referred to as PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis), such as Truvada®, are extremely effective at HIV prevention, but only if they are taken daily as directed. Truvada’s efficacy is greatly compromised when taken inconsistently. However, results from a recent Gilead-funded clinical trial (Purpose-2) led by physicians at Emory University and Grady Health System indicate that a twice-yearly injection of Lenacapavir offers a 96% reduced risk of infection overall, making the injection significantly more effective than the daily oral PrEP.

Welfare chief Chris Sun has pushed back against concerns that a new scheme mandating an hour of unpaid work weekly will stigmatise or burden welfare recipients.

Liberals backing away from their preelection and election-time commitments have a touch of the wrong Marx — Groucho, not Karl. A quotation attributed to the comedian goes something like this: “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them, well, I have others.” And that’s the problem. Even if we might be inclined to welcome a tepid, mealy-mouthed mea culpa from Brooks and company, who can trust them? And who wants their advice now? It seems far better to trust those who have long reached and maintained the conclusions and positions that cynical elites are now pretending to discover — the same people who’ll still believe those things, and be correct, when the political winds blow in a new direction.

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced a record-breaking 90.6 percent of people with HIV receiving medical care through the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program are virally suppressed, exceeding national viral suppression rates. Viral suppression means people with HIV taking their medication cannot sexually transmit HIV and can live longer and healthier lives.

Sudbury native was once class president, but in his 20s he ended up on the streets, ‘lost in daydreams’: to mark World AIDS Day, he tells his story