December
1 – World AIDS Day
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1 – Positively Naked, a documentary film about the making of the 10th anniversary cover of POZ, premieres on Cinemax. (2006)
“Positively Naked”
7 – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Act Against AIDS initiative launches a multi-media campaign titled “Doing It” to promote routine HIV testing. (2015)
The CDC’s “Doing It” CampaignCDC
20 – The Food and Drug Administration approves the first long-acting injectable option for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). (2021)
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27 – Singer, songwriter, composer, author and activist Michael Callen dies of AIDS-related causes at age 38. He helped draft The Denver Principles and cowrote How to Have Sex in an Epidemic: One Approach. (1993)
Michael CallenWikipedia
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