Designers Against AIDS The First Decade Ludion Publishers Let’s skip to page 118, the start of Ninette Murk’s narrative about how Designers against AIDS (DAA) [A&U, July 2009], the nonprofit she founded, evolved over these, its first ten years. Murk, a fashion journalist based in Antwerp, was attending a Paris fashion show with her friend and colleague, Peter Verhelst, a stylist, in 1993. When Peter was harassed for toting in his own folding chair to the back section, where standing marked the difference from those [...]

Me, Myself & HIV promo from mtv staying alive on Vimeo. Meet Slim, twenty-one, and Angelikah, twenty-five. He’s from Lusaka, Zambia. She’s from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He’s an up-and-coming DJ and music producer; she’s a college student. Worlds apart, they share one bond—a positive serostatus. In a new documentary, Me, Myself & HIV, both share their stories of getting tested for HIV and what happened after getting their results and how they navigate the world of work, friends, and dating in the age of AIDS. Produced [...]

Reports of alarming rates of HIV among incarcerated Americans fall on deaf ears of those in power. Left Field by Patricia Nell Warren Between 20% and 26% of people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States have spent time in the correctional system.” That was the startling and little-noticed statement in a 2006 study by UC San Francisco professor Elizabeth Kantor, titled “HIV Transmission and Prevention in Prisons.” As her source, Kantor cited a 2002 report to Congress by the National Commission on Correctional Health [...]

People First What does financial guru Suze Orman say about priorities when it comes to building personal wealth? People first. People first is also what the organizations featured in A&U’s ninth annual Holiday Gift Guide deem as the number-one priority when it comes to securing community health. Whether it’s Broadway Cares’ support of food service and meal delivery programs in 110 organizations across thirty-four states or Hope House’s weekly play-therapy program for children in the Memphis area, putting people first is only possible with steady [...]

Visual AIDS is proud to announce that the Tate Modern, The Museum of Art & Design, The Wexner Center for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Museum, El Museo de Barrio, Grey Art Gallery at NYU, CCS Gallery at Bard College, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, and The LGBT Center of NYC, among others, will mark 20 years of action and remembrance of Day With(out) Art by screening Last Address on December 1, 2010. Keith Haring, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Joe Brainard, David Wojnarowicz, [...]

Despair and Hope in the Other D.C. by Larry Buhl Most would agree that the fight against AIDS has made tremendous progress in nearly thirty years. But they would be surprised that in some parts of the United States, as far as AIDS goes, it’s still 1985. Not far from the National Mall, the White House, and the Capitol Building sits another Washington, D.C., so close to tourist attractions and the halls of government that it seems like a parallel universe. The feature-length documentary The [...]

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GMHC in partnership with Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation present Art & AIDS: Loving Life, An Exhibition of the Humanity, Spirit and Love of Artists Living with HIV & AIDS. Curated by Osvaldo Perdomo and David Livingston, the exhibition will feature painting, photography and drawing by forty-five artists, including George Towne, Eric Rhein, Shangaboy, Loreen Bryant, and Brian Crede. An opening reception will take place on Tuesday, Oct 26, (6-8 p.m.) at the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, 26 Wooster Street (between Canal & Grand), in Manhattan’s [...]

Nearly a month after the third annual National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day, San Francisco AIDS Foundation and other Bay Area organizations will offer HIVision Forum: HIV and Aging: Now What? on October 13 to explore what it means to get older with HIV. Free and open to the public, the forum’s panel of experts will address the challenges that older individuals living with HIV and AIDS face when it comes to the medical, emotional, and social aspects of their lives. The forum will also [...]

“What if it were you?” That’s the question Madison, Wisconsin-based HIVictorious, Inc., has been posing to area high school students as part of a poster contest and campaign. Now entering its fourth round, the poster contest asks youth to imagine how they might feel if they discovered that they were HIV-positive and to respond through words and art. The entries are judged and winners are awarded with recognition from public officials and gift cards, but the real prize is the opportunity for youth to promote [...]