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 [...]
Op-Ed: What’s a Girl to Do?
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 [...]
Defending HIV Vaccine Research
In a recent Baltimore Sun editorial, Dr. Homayoon Khanlou and Michael Weinstein, both of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, argued that less funding should be dedicated to HIV vaccine research so that more could go to HIV prevention and treatment. In response, the Sun (baltimoresun.com, 4/5) has published letters to the editor supporting vaccine research.
The first, [...]
Op-Ed: Hot gay sex is for homophobes
It happens every time I innocently go to the neighborhood grocery store for soy milk. You see, I live in the Castro, in San Francisco, and everyone knows what that means.
The streets are teeming with homosexuals. It’s just like in those horror-movie fundamentalist videos: Everyone’s in leather with their bits and butts on display; murderous [...]
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 [...]
Op-Ed: Swiss Say Condoms Not Necessary…Sometimes
POZ Founder Sean Strub
The Swiss Federal Commission for HIV/AIDS released a remarkable statement a few weeks ago that opened the door to the possibility of sex without condoms for people with HIV.
Citing their review of a long string of studies measuring HIV transmission from people with HIV to HIV-negative partners, the Commission concluded that sex [...]
Op-Ed: The Irony of HIV/AIDS: Preventable Yet Spreading In Black America
HIV/AIDS was quickly stereotyped as a “gay disease” 25 years ago because most of the victims were homosexuals. Today, African Americans, who account for 12 percent of the U.S. population, are 50 percent of HIV cases. Black teens (aged 13-19), who account for 16 percent of the population, are 69 percent of new HIV cases. [...]