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 ›
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(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 ›
Southern Discomforts
by Drew Gibson My interest piqued this morning when I saw a link to a BBC News Magazine article on the current fiscal crisis in Europe with the sub-header: “Lessons from US history for the crisis-hit eurozone.” I assumed the… 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 ›
Holding HIV Down
What does it mean to suppress something? Like so much of our language, the word itself comes from Latin: suppressus, from supprimere. It meant to hold down—to push under. The word sounds violent and malicious, like leaning your weight upon… Read More ›
Out of Africa: The Origins of HIV
By Drew Gibson It would be tempting to describe the southeast corner of Cameroon as a land that time forgot, but it would also be a disservice to the people still living there. You see, in order to forget something,… Read More ›
Groping Our Way Through The Darkness
By Drew Gibson For the foreseeable future our national discourse will be dominated by incessant chatter about the upcoming presidential election in November. There will be debates and stump speeches with candidates promising things they can never deliver. We will… Read More ›
Isentress Distress
I am not a doctor. Nor am I a pharmacist or a nurse. Heck, I’m not even technically a social worker until (and if) I graduate from the University of Maryland-Baltimore SSW next year. However, I have been a citizen… Read More ›
The Routinization of Destigmatization: H.R. 4470 and HIV testing
By Drew Gibson About two weeks ago, a bill was introduced in the US House of Representatives as is common practice in Washington. This bill—H.R. 4470—was introduced by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and has been called the Routine HIV Screening… Read More ›
The Meaning of Leadership in HIV
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus: a retrovirus only 120 nanometers in diameter. It is 60 times smaller than a red blood cell and yet has killed more people than World War I, The Civil War and The Vietnam War combined. The… Read More ›
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