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HIV/AIDS graph novel contest overview

Graduate assistants push back against UF health care proposal

After UF proposed a new, more expensive health care plan to its graduate assistants, they quickly pushed back.

Free HIV testing to continue at Santa Fe

When Jordan Chediak heard there would be free HIV testing at Santa Fe College, he didn’t hesitate to stop by.

On Valentine’s Day, paper butterflies at UF promote self-love

On Tuesday afternoon, about 50 paper butterflies with messages of love appeared in trees on Turlington Plaza.

The Alligator's endorsements for amendments

No. 1 (Solar energy choice): Vote No

Free condoms, resources push UF into top 15 in sexual health

Free condoms at UF have helped put the university in the top 15 of a national ranking.

A day of pride: Thousands attend LGBTQ+ celebration in Gainesville

West University Avenue resembled a moving rainbow Saturday afternoon, with hundreds of people carrying colorful flags as they marched for LGBTQ+ pride.

RIP to the birds, the bees and sex euphemisms

An aspect of parenting we usually like to avoid is the birds and the bees. The beasts with two backs. The dirty deed. Dipping the wick — OK. No one says that, but that’s the point. Have you noticed how we have so many euphemisms for sex? That shows just how much we try to avoid the conversation, but it’s necessary in order to be healthy and safe.

UF Inventor of the Year stands against AIDS, gender inequality

A UF professor is working to cure feline AIDS and human HIV.

UF HealthStreet, College of Pharmacy host health fair

UF’s College of Pharmacy is providing more free health screenings at its annual health fair on Friday.

Guest column: The Affordable Care Act - good for America

This month marks the sixth anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Since its passage in 2010, more than 20 million people have signed up for affordable health care through healthcare.gov. 

Column: Cuba is not 'opening up' to the U.S.

In 1854, U.S. diplomats wrote to Secretary of State William Marcy in the Ostend Manifesto that the U.S. should try to either purchase Cuba from Spain or declare war on Spain and seize Cuba. Beginning with the tenure of Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams, the U.S. tried to take possession of Cuba to extend economic control over the region and expand U.S. slave territory. As Adams declared, the acquisition of Cuba was “an object of transcendent importance to the commercial and political interests of our Union.”

Students give blood for LGBTQ+ people who aren't allowed

Joe Rojo was turned away from giving blood Thursday afternoon.

Pride Student Union to host first gay blood drive

Jacob Dolins wants all people to be able to donate blood, regardless of sexuality.

Column: Politics, progress and manipulation - Hillary Clinton

Progress entails moving forward on the trajectory of history and struggling for greater liberties and, ultimately, a better quality of life. At the very least, we can imagine with more relevance the notion of greater freedom, what Hegel meant when he wrote, “The History of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of Freedom.”

UF group looks to overcome taboos about sex

A UF group will educate students about safe sex and healthy relationships this week.

The increasing danger of anti-liberal liberalism

Say what you will of the political right, but at least they are politically consistent. From the decrepit-moderate branch to the slow-people bible study group that controls the most powerful country in the world, Republicans just want to hurt people. Jeb Bush is fine with "stuff" happening to the poor and disadvantaged, and Ted Cruz needs women to suffer for their chromosomal sins. Our left doesn’t know what it wants, especially in our generation, and it only wants to point out the ideological sins of its compatriots.

Drug companies and the high cost of profit

Earlier this year, Martin Shkreli, the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, increased the cost of a life-saving HIV drug by about 5,000 percent. The price raised from $13.50 per pill to $750 per pill.

Editorial: As far as ethics and morals go, we need to reflect

Following national outcry, the FBI and the Department of Justice announced Tuesday that they have opened up an investigation into the violent arrest of a black high-school student by a white sheriff’s deputy in Columbia, South Carolina. Officer Ben Fields arrested the student after forcefully yanking her out of her desk by wrapping his arm around her neck. Having flipped the student and her desk, Fields then dragged her to the front of the classroom. This came after she refused to leave her seat and had already ignored requests from her teacher and other school administrators to do so. A second student, Niya Kenny, 18, was arrested soon after for taping the encounter. Her arrest was justified under the premise that she was “disturbing school.”