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• Ain’t No Party Like a Third Party

  By Drew Gibson on July 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  “I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.” – Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America… Read More ›

• Antiretroviral Therapy Program slashes Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission in South Africa

  By Drew Gibson on July 9, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  In this video from Al-Jazeera English, you can see the profound effect that South Africa’s perinatal HIV transmission prevention program has had on HIV rates in newborns. The program, which provides free antiretroviral therapy to HIV+ pregnant women, has shrunk… Read More ›

• Political Unity Through HIV

  By Drew Gibson on July 6, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  If one puts much stock in the old axiom that says “a house divided against itself cannot stand,” it would be safe to conclude that we as a nation have lying on the canvas for the past half century or… Read More ›

• What Islam Can Teach Us About HIV Outreach

  By Drew Gibson on July 3, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  With the the International AIDS Conference in Washington DC coming up in less than three weeks, it is fitting that we should be looking to foreign nations for strategies with which to fight the HIV epidemic in this country. While… Read More ›

• The Youth Vote Gets Out

  By Drew Gibson on July 2, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  On the front page of today’s New York Times was a piece with the header, “Hit by Recession, Young Voters Shed Image as Obama’s Army.” The article starts off with a quote from a 20-year old Latina college grad recollecting… Read More ›

• The Affordable Care Act & How it Effects the HIV Community Explained in Under 1,000 Words

  By Drew Gibson on June 30, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Despite having a heated national debate for the past two years about its merits and constitutionality, many people—including healthcare and social workers—don’t really understand what The Obama Administration’s healthcare reform will affect. This is to be expected with a document… Read More ›

• The Wealth of Nations

  By Drew Gibson on June 29, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  There are certain things Americans love to talk about. Income inequality is not one of them. As a matter of fact, we have been staging a collective reenactment of The Emperor’s New Clothes with regards to monetary matters since, The… Read More ›

• New Reform to be Referred to as “Obamacare with a Side of Roberts”

  By Drew Gibson on June 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  People, I’m not going to think about the striking down of Medicaid expansion and the fact that the state of Alabama will continue spend more money on Roll Tide banners than healthcare. That’s for tomorrow. Today…we must just be grateful… Read More ›

• The Color of Drug Money: Gilead Sciences and “Philanthropy”

  By Drew Gibson on June 27, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  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 ›

• 4th Annual City Uprising HIV Outreach Day

  By Drew Gibson on June 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

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