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...
View ArticleIsentress 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...
View ArticleIn 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...
View ArticleTest and Treat…And Then What?
The only way we get through life with any semblance of sanity is through compartmentalization. Everyone of us has hundreds of different spheres and categories into which we make sense of our lives....
View ArticleA Cure or Some Cash?
There is always a point in researching any highly specialized subject when the documents you are reading stop being written in English. It doesn’t matter what the field is—biomedical research, law,...
View ArticleThe AIDS-Free Generation Gap
It is my sincere hope that when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday that an AIDS-free generation is within our sight, she was simply engaging in a bit of rose-tinted rhetoric to raise...
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