News 2011
Time to Strengthen our Commitment to AIDS Research
Thirty years ago this month, the first report of a lethal disease that appeared to be selectively stalking gay men appeared in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. The disease was AIDS; its cause, unknown. But it quickly became clear that the disease didn't threaten only gay men -- hemophiliacs and intravenous drug users, among others, soon joined the list.
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Brotherly Love? HIV Rate Skyrockets Among Philadelphia's Black MSM
As we enter the season of Black Gay Pride, we examine the response to the HIV epidemic among Black gay and bisexual men in Philadelphia, where the HIV infection rate is five times the national average and one-and-a-half times the rate of New York City's, the traditional epicenter of the AIDS epidemic.
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States Cutting Back On Drug Programs For HIV Patients
Cash-strapped states across the country are scaling back efforts to provide life-saving medicines to HIV patients.
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30th Commemoration of HIV/AIDS
Thirty years ago this June, an article reporting the first known cases of what we now call AIDS was published in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
The NY Post Makes DSK’s Alleged Rape Victim an AIDS Predator
When I heard that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, was arrested for sexually assaulting a housekeeper in his $3,000 hotel room in New York City, I immediately feared for his accuser’s life.
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