By Drew Gibson Last night, while trudging through the endless cavalcade of reality shows on the TV guide, I came across a station that was playing The Gangs of New York. Naturally, I had to stop and watch it as… Read More ›
HIV News
4th Annual City Uprising HIV Outreach Day
Baltimore is celebrating National HIV Testing Day by hosting a massive citywide outreach effort to get people and communities tested and aware of their HIV status. Put on by The JACQUES Initiative through their faith-based outreach program Project SHALEM in… Read More ›
Documentary Watch: deepsouth
We mentioned a documentary a little while back calleddeepsouthabout the under-reported, under-funded and fast growing HIV epidemic in the American South. Well, exactly a month from now, the documentary will be premiering at the Landmark E Street Cinema during the… Read More ›
In Burma, Hope & AIDS Medications Hard to Come By
Of the 240,000 people in Burma (Myanmar) living with HIV, roughly half are in desperate need of life saving ART medications. Most of them will never get them and for many of those who do, it will have come too… Read More ›
Keep The Promise 2012: Marching With Wyclef
Wyclef Jean to Perform at the Keep The Promise 2012 March on Washington for HIV/AIDS. When I think of Wyclef Jean, the first celebrity that comes to mind for comparison is…Paul Newman. Stay with me here. I realize that one… Read More ›
Host Countries: HIV & Prostitution in Euro 2012
Sport is one of civilization’s most tried and true methods of escape. It is that rare outlet for our emotions and stressors that we can rely on with certitude. For the unending litany of rules and regulations in modern sports,… Read More ›
Sharing Your HIV Story
During this year’s annual AIDS/LifeCycle bike ride in California, the LGBT story site I’m From Driftwood (www.imfromdriftwood.com) is interviewing bikers on the rode who are HIV+ and having them share what it was like to be diagnosed and what happened… Read More ›
TB & HIV Looms Large in South Africa
I stumbled upon a remarkable segment from the PBS Newshour on the dual threat of HIV and Tuberculosis in South Africa. As the report points out the “terrible twins of HiV and Tuberculosis” are inextricably linked in South Africa, with… Read More ›
(Red) Rush To Zero!
Hey! Do you like stuff? Do you want to reduce the number of HIV infections globally and locally? Well then, how would you like to have your stuff and eat…it…too? No, that doesn’t work. What about how would you like… Read More ›
Sensing a Pattern Here?
Courtesy of the National Association of People With AIDS and the blog From Here To Eternity (www.dgsmith.org) is a map of the states that contain the 2,357 HIV positive Americans who are still on ADAP waiting lists and still with… Read More ›
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