As far as metaphors go, the concept of the US Government falling over the “fiscal cliff” after the new year is pretty uninspired and ill-fitting. I suppose the idea behind it is that if our elected officials are too brainless,… Read More ›
HIV News
The AIDS-Free Generation Gap
It is my sincere hope that when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday that an AIDS-free generation is within our sight, she was simply engaging in a bit of rose-tinted rhetoric to raise enthusiasm for World AIDS Day… Read More ›
In Sickness & In Health (Pending HIV Test Results)
“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.” – Margaret Atwood Every couple of months it seems as if some superbug pops up in the news as the latest evidence… Read More ›
Alabama Brings Back “Separate But Equal” for HIV+ Prisoners
“People speak sometimes about the ‘bestial’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts. No animal could ever be so cruel as a man—so artfully, so artistically cruel.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky There are few people in… Read More ›
Gilead’s New FDA Approved HIV Drug Improves Nothing, So Naturally It Costs A Lot
What do you suppose is the going rate for convenience? If you ask pharmaceutical giant and AIDS profiteer Gilead Sciences, the rate for an HIV+ person is somewhere around $29,000. The FDA announced yesterday, amid the media din accompanying the… Read More ›
Wow, What a Wretched Human Being: Stacey Campfield
The rash of obscene ignorance sweeping our great nation has prompted me to create a new column on Virally Suppressed called, Wow, What a Wretched Human Being. In our inaugural entry we’ve decided to take a look at Tennessee State Senator… Read More ›
A Cure or Some Cash?
There is always a point in researching any highly specialized subject when the documents you are reading stop being written in English. It doesn’t matter what the field is—biomedical research, law, literary criticism—there is a line in the sand that… Read More ›
Test and Treat…And Then What?
The only way we get through life with any semblance of sanity is through compartmentalization. Everyone of us has hundreds of different spheres and categories into which we make sense of our lives. Each weekday morning, most of us leave… Read More ›
The Hidden Costs of PEPFAR
As was evidenced by his absence at the International AIDS Conference last week, President Obama is not currying much favor with the HIV community at the moment. Despite creating the first National HIV/AIDS Strategy in our nation’s history, he hasn’t… Read More ›
Realize, Don’t Imagine
As many speakers had over the previous 5 days, former President Bill Clinton invoked the goal of an AIDS Free Generation. He told the delegates assembled before him that their efforts had led us to a place where this goal… Read More ›
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