HEROES
Monica Johnson, executive director of HEROES, likes acronyms. “We’re the acronym queens down here!” “Down here” is Columbia, in northeast Louisiana, and the acronyms...
Demons at Harvard
Left Field by Patricia Nell Warren
Religious Extremists Offer a “Solution” for the World’s Ills, including HIV/AIDS.
As I wrote this column, the last week of...
Affordable Care
Left Field by Patricia Nell Warren
What's the Toll?
When it comes to affordable care, we need a new deal
Just recently, columnist Kergan Edwards-Stout emailed me,...
ARV Drought
Left Field by Patricia Nell Warren
Drug shortages threaten the promise of the “end of aids.”
As I write this, the International AIDS Conference is going...
South Africa at Stake
Empowered by governments, religious ideology is shaping the aids industry in harmful ways.
Left Field by Patricia Nell Warren
Scanning headlines, I saw the CDC announcement...
Hillary’s Speech, Part 2
Left Field by Patricia Nell Warren
Who will pay for the “AIDS-Free generation” in a world facing financial crisis?
Secretary of State Clinton’s now-famous November 8...
To Cut or Not to Cut
Circumcision is being touted as an hiv prevention method, but much of the research is driven by ideology.
Left Field by Patricia Nell Warren
Recently the...
Treatment 2.0
Left Field by Patricia Nell Warren
On paper, UNAIDS has some lofty aims—but are they really feasible?
The 7/13/2010 Globe and Mail headline read, “10 MILLION...
Unaffordable Housing
Left Field by Patricia Nell Warren
Unaffordable Housing
Budget cuts are cracking the foundation of HIV/AIDS treatment
In San Francisco in 2011, a homeless man living with...
War and AIDS
Sexual violence during wartime is shaping the epidemic—it’s time we address it
Left Field by Patricia Nell Warren
Most people think of HIV transmission as taking...