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 ›
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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 ›