Good Guys & Bad Guys
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....
Re: Suicide
Left Field by Patricia Nell Warren
What can we learn by looking at the social context around this “taboo” act?
A friend of mine recently phoned me,...
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...
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...
Hillary’s Speech, Part 1
What can we read between the lines of the Secretary of State’s pledge of an “AIDS-free generation”?
Left Field by Patricia Nell Warren
On November 8,...
PCP: Still With Us
Left Field by Patricia Nell Warren
Even though we know a bit more about this pathogen, questions about treatment still persist.
In my last Left Field,...
KS Is Back
Left Field by Patricia Nell Warren
The return of Kaposi’s sarcoma spurs a new wave of research & rethinking.
Following its grim flare-up starting in 1981,...
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...
Carriage Trade
Advances in treatment need not go hand in hand with advances in cost.
Left Field by Patricia Nell Warren
One disgrace of current biomedical research is...
Vanishing Value
Budget cuts are slashing our chances of surviving the economic downturn, homelessness & AIDS.
Left Field by Patricia Nell Warren
It has been my pleasure to...
