mtvU has launched their Positive or Not? anti-HIV/AIDS stigma campaign. You will be presented with a series of pictures that challenges your conception of who or what groups are stereotyped as more likely to get HIV. They are the same people who have created the game Darfur is Dying.
I think this campaign is especially important [...]
mtvU: Positive or Not Campaign
Op-Ed: What’s a Girl to Do?
As new HIV infections among U.S. women keep rising, a new study probes America’s attitudes toward positive ladies. And the findings ain’t pretty.
In the United States, women now account for more than a third of new HIV infections and a quarter of new AIDS cases. The proportion of AIDS diagnoses among women has tripled [...]
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Op-Ed: Why So Little AIDs Coverage?
In 1996, I wrote a two-part documentary on HIV/AIDS in conjunction with Dr. Paul Volderbing, one of the leading authorities on the disease. There was an excitement in the air at the time as protease inhibitors, the second class of antiretrovirals, appeared to manage the disease, if not cure it. While many infected individuals have [...]
Migrant Workers in California Receive HIV Education
The migrant workers who have returned this season to often-isolated camps and barracks scattered over San Joaquin County farmland are at high risk of contracting and carrying HIV as they move across state and national lines, say public health advocates who face a range of obstacles in their work to prevent the virus’s spread.
Outside one [...]
AIDS Advocates in New York Fight Racial and Economic Disparities
Somewhere in the decades since gay, white men first rallied to fight the disease that had plagued their community, African-American men and women found themselves in the midst of a sneak attack.
HIV, though eventually found in people as varied as hemophilic children to affluent sports stars, is not altogether colorblind. But it’s not a secret [...]
Florida Group Launches HIV Awareness Campaign for Minority MSMs
Chris Lacharite never thought that in 2008 he would be asking an assembly of gay men to get the word out about the AIDS epidemic.
The HIV prevention manager for Compass thought that message was delivered a long time ago.
“I don’t know when it stopped, but it stopped,” he said last week.
The occasion was a “town [...]
Dining Out for Life San Francisco
MAKE A DIFFERENCE - HELP STOP THE SPREAD OF HIV!
The STOP AIDS Project and Wells Fargo invite you to the 7th Annual Dining Out for Life presented by La Crema, Abbott Virology, SF Weekly, and CBS 5/The CW Bay Area!
Simply dine at one of our participating restaurants on Thursday, April 24, 2008 and 25 percent [...]
Conference Addresses HIV Among Pittsburgh’s Youth
One of the most frightening public health problems facing the country today involves teenagers and HIV-AIDS.
HIV infections are growing among teenagers, and some groups are hoping to put a stop to that through education and awareness.Despite expensive treatments, HIV-AIDS is very much around, and very much affecting their lives. All teenagers are at risk, but [...]
AIDS Activist Gregg Gonsalves Receives $100,000 Leadership Award
The John M. Lloyd Foundation announced today that AIDS advocate Gregg Gonsalves has been selected as the first-ever recipient of the $100,000 John M. Lloyd AIDS Leadership Award.
An AIDS activist for 17 years, Gonsalves has played a major role in international efforts to accelerate AIDS research and improve access to lifesaving drugs. He is currently [...]