The #Fenway Institute at the XIX International AIDS Conference #HIV #aids2012

The institute website offers a list: JULY 16 – 31 -- INTERNATIONAL AIDS CONFERENCE XIX COVERAGE Staff fromFenway Health and The Fenway  Institute attended the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC July 23 – 27.  Fenway’s staff, their work, and their thoughts on relevant issues received extensive media coverage before, during and after the …

Gays and manorexia

 A 2007 study found gay men are more likely than hetero men to have eating disorders. Now, a new study conducted in part at MGH finds that dissatisfaction with body fat is “correlated with....depression, eating restraint, eating concerns, and social sensitivity” among gay men.   More from Fuse magazine.  Dr. Jennifer Mclean at LGBT-orients Fenway …

BHN exclusive: Gay Pride and health, Boston 2009

        The world was an unfriendly place for gay people when the Fenway Community Health Center started in the basement of a Boston church in 1971. They recently cut the ribbon on a 100,000-square-foot building that rivals any of the monuments to medicine on Longwood Avenue.              BHN visited the Boston Gay Pride festivities on Saturday, June 13 and offers …

BHN Exclusive: Health inequalities are not black and white

           I happened to check out a campus event on inequality and health after teaching my NU class last week. What I learned is that color is an issue, but not the only issue.             Latinos, people from Asia and the Pacific islands, gays and people with developmental disabilities also have concerns. (This last definition was …