In Angie Apodaca’s home, the presence of her son, Eric Apodaca, can still be felt.
Eric’s voice is still recorded on her answering machine. After five years since his death, Angie cannot erase her son’s voice.
Eric died at the age of 37 after losing the battle against AIDS.
In his teenage years, Eric confessed to his parents [...]
Two Families Share Stories of Lost Ones Due to AIDS
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 [...]
Op-Ed: With a Few More Brains …
My point was that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is not the far-out fringe figure that many whites assume. But I had a deluge of e-mail from incredulous whites saying, in effect: If 30 percent of blacks believe such bunk, then that’s a worse scandal than anything Mr. Wright said.
It’s true that conspiracy theories are a [...]
Report Shows 48% Hike In US HIV Cases
Reported new HIV infections in the United States increased by 48 percent in 2006 according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The stunning figures, in the CDC Surveillance Report, comes in advance of a long anticipated in depth review of HIV infections that was to have been released early this year [...]
An Epidemic No One Wants to Talk About
A much-publicized study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month highlighted the high rates of sexually transmitted diseases among teenage Americans. But for those of us who work in public health, this “news” is already old.
A decade ago, the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine published a landmark report, “The Hidden [...]
Japan’s HIV infections hit record high in 2007
The number of people newly infected with HIV in Japan hit a record high of 1,048 in 2007, exceeding the 1,000 mark for the first time in history, Japanese media reported Wednesday.
According to a report released by the health ministry’s AIDS Surveillance Committee, the number of people developed AIDS in the year reached 400.
The total [...]
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The four seasons are highly respected in many cultures because they so closely represent the cycle of life. Spring represents a time of equality and balance. It is a time of profound change, new beginnings and birth. For these reasons, spring was chosen as the time to hold the first National Native [...]
Rift Over AIDS Treatment Lingers in South Africa
It has been proven that using at least two antiretroviral medications dramatically reduces the likelihood of transmitting HIV during childbirth. President Mbeki’s past sex scandal involved him having sex with an HIV-positive woman, which he denies, speaks to a government that is harming its citizens through inaction. There is a widely held belief that pharmaceutical [...]