The controversial practice of using the popular HIV-medication Truvada as a preventative measure for at-risk individuals has been given final approval by the Food and Drug Administration. 

We'll be swabbing our mouths with even more things in the privacy of our own homes thanks to the FDA's just-announced approval of the OraQuick in-home HIV testing kit. 

Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and Illinois Rep. Mike Quigley have joined forces in a new fight to end the ban on gay male blood donation in the United States.

This comes after Kerry's previous efforts to reverse the ban in 2010.

More after the jump!

An in-home rapid HIV test?!

It could be coming your way. Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Blood Products Advisory Committee recommended approval of the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test, the first ever in-home rapid HIV test.

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Will Truvada become the gay male equivalent of a daily birth control pill?

Federal drug regulators announced today that taking the pill, Truvada, on a daily basis can help prevent contraction of HIV.

More after the jump.

There are dozens of HIV vaccines currently on trial around the world, but the first to use a dead virus cell to jumpstart the immune system has just been approved by the FDA for human testing. Details follow. 

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that it might entertain ending its outdated and controversial discrimination of gay men. But not for at least two years. 

You know Lady Gaga is on top of the free world when she can accidentally call Anna Wintour, the Ice Queen and ruler of pop culture herself, a "bitch"... and get away with it. 

If your STD medication is non-prescription or you are getting it off the Internet, the FDA is letting you know that you just wasted a whole bunch of money and time, hunty! Common sense? One would think. But then again, so is making sure that you are using protection during sexual activity. Find out if a product you’re using is falsely reporting that it is FDA approved after the jump.

Gardasil, which is now widely used to prevent infection of certain forms of HPV (the virus that causes warts) and decrease woman's risk of cervical cancer, has been approved by the FDA to now help fight anal cancer in men. 

The National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) has applauded the FDA approval for the expected impact it will have on the health of men who have sex with men and those living with HIV as both groups experience anal cancer (which is usually rare) at disproportionately higher rates.