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Callen-Lorde, GMHC Deliver Nearly Third of Meningitis Vaccines

Callen-Lorde, GMHC Deliver Nearly Third of Meningitis Vaccines

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Roughly eight months after New York City’s health department reported a meningitis outbreak among gay and bisexual men and began a vaccination campaign, two gay health groups have combined to vaccinate roughly 30 percent of the 10,209 people vaccinated in that effort. “It’s been a well-oiled machine,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, a [...]

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

WTF? Meningitis Message Missing Young Gay Men of Color

WTF? Meningitis Message Missing Young Gay Men of Color

BY MIGUEL ZAPATA | I’m a 20-year-old young man of color living on the Lower East Side. I was raised by my mother who is from the Dominican Republic. I’ve worked in retail sales of trendy clothes since I was 17. I am trying to get back to college and I think I want to become [...]

May 8, 20137 CommentsRead More

The LGBT Community Meets the Mayoral Candidates

The LGBT Community Meets the Mayoral Candidates

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | The five Democrats seeking their party’s nomination for mayor spent 90 minutes with hundreds of members of our community last week, and the results were encouraging for those hoping to move critical LGBT needs to the top of the city’s agenda in the next four years. The candidates uniformly showed a detailed [...]

March 26, 20132 CommentsRead More

Officials Now Voice Alarm Over Meningitis

Officials Now Voice Alarm Over Meningitis

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | After saying for several months that it has the resources to address a meningitis outbreak among gay men in New York City, a senior official in the city’s health department told the New York Times that staff are “very scared” about the outbreak and are struggling to control it. And in a [...]

March 26, 20135 CommentsRead More

With Four New Meningitis Cases in Gay Men, Quinn, Farley Join Call for Vaccination

With Four New Meningitis Cases in Gay Men, Quinn, Farley Join Call for Vaccination

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Citing four new meningitis cases among gay and bisexual men in New York City since the start of 2013, the city’s health department is recommending that all men who “regularly have intimate contact with other men met through a website, digital application, or at a bar or party” get vaccinated for the [...]

March 6, 2013No CommentRead More

NYC Funds Only 40 Percent of Meningitis Vaccine Need

NYC Funds Only 40 Percent of Meningitis Vaccine Need

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | While the New York City’s health department said publicly that it wanted to vaccinate 10,000 gay and bisexual men to stop an outbreak of invasive meningitis, it purchased just 4,000 vaccine doses, according to health department documents obtained by Gay City News. “The estimate of 10,000 was based on HIV-infected men who [...]

January 30, 20132 CommentsRead More

City Steps Up Meningitis Alert Amidst Callen-Lorde Criticism

City Steps Up Meningitis Alert Amidst Callen-Lorde Criticism

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Citing new meningitis cases among gay and bisexual men in addition to the 12 it reported on September 27, New York City’s health department expanded the target population for its meningitis vaccine campaign in a November 29 announcement. And the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, the Chelsea clinic that has vaccinated about 700 [...]

December 5, 20122 CommentsRead More

Callen-Lorde Moves Aggressively on Meningitis Vaccinations

Callen-Lorde Moves Aggressively on Meningitis Vaccinations

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Within days of the city’s health department announcing it had seen a dozen meningitis cases among gay men since 2010, the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center purchased 620 doses of vaccine, put up posters and flyers in its West 18th Street clinic urging men to get vaccinated, and sent mailers to 3,000 [...]

October 24, 20121 CommentRead More