Tony Award-winning actor Gregory Jbara has played many fathers, but educating his sons about HIV is his leading role by Dann Dulin Photographed Exclusively for A&U by Timothy J. Haines The night before I met Gregory Jbara at his Los Angeles home, he sent this e-mail: “I’m going to be running [...]
What You Need to Know About the Side Effect Profiles of New HCV Antiretrovirals by Larry Buhl By all accounts, adding the new direct-acting antiretrovirals (DAA) boceprevir (Victrelis) or telaprevir (Incivek) to the standard regimen of pegylated interferon plus ribavirin can shorten treatment regimens and increase the likelihood that a [...]
Gregory Haney Ruby’s Rap by Ruby Comer Los Olivos, CA I’m winding down in wine country. Grazing the prairie, I behold sculpted vineyards steeped in history, horses swaggering through lush countryside, grassland Victorian homes peppered on continuous rolling, rolling hills, and tiny boutique shops on the main street with no traffic lights! [...]
Left Field by Patricia Nell Warren When Commercial Interests Cloud AIDS Research, Who Wins & Who Loses? The AIDS establishment see themselves as the good guys. And they see “denialists” as the bad guys. According to establishment defender Nicoli Nattrass in a recent issue of The Scientist, “denialism” even includes [...]
Radiant Artist May 4 marks the birthday of Keith Haring, one of the most prolific and popular artists to take on AIDS awareness. In 2008, Lester Strong wrote about Haring’s work and a new book on the artist that had been recently published. A New Book Celebrates the Art and Life of AIDS [...]
by Justin B. Terry-Smith Justin, I found you through a search on Google for HIV. I need your help. I am an HIV-negative female. I have a best friend named David. We have been friends for sixteen years and it was back in high school that we met. We dated [...]
Read My Lips The First Retrospective of Gran Fury Reminds that Kissing Doesn’t Kill (Greed and Indifference Do) by Angela Leroux-Lindsey In November 1989, New York Archbishop John O’Connor opened the first Vatican conference on AIDS by declaring “The truth is not in condoms or clean needles. These are lies…good morality is good medicine.” [...]
In Sync A Rapper and an Educator Use the Power of Music to Fight AIDS by Chip Alfred He’s a twenty-two year-old Berkeley rapper who’s been a member of the hip hop group The Pack since he was a teen. She’s a thirty-nine-year-old professor of African Studies and a community activist in [...]
EdgeAlliance Stability and innovation are key when it comes to building alliances. EdgeAlliance, a Chicago-based nonprofit, has become expert in both aspects over the years—consistent and reliable, but unafraid to evolve when necessary. Founded in 1992 as AIDSCare to provide housing and services for men and women dying of AIDS, the [...]
The Girl in the Red Sweater Essay by D.L. Ransom Girl in red sweater…big brown eyes…HIV-free in a sea of otherwise. This little girl, so frail yet strong. My heart aches for her and all the others like her. The difference is I know we can change her life for the better. The phone calls and [...]
Children of the Road The Road We Know Explores Peer Abstinence Education in Botswana by V. Anderson The Road We Know is a documentary about the work of a rally team from Face the Nation, a local organization that was formed as a response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic ravaging Botswana. The team consists of [...]