Cure News
Posted on April 3, 2014 by A&U in Destination: Cure, LifeGuide
News of the Day The latest reports on HIV cure research show momentum by Jeannie Wraight Here’s a look at some of the HIV cure headlines over the past couple months. The ever-growing momentum towards a cure, particularly funding for cure initiatives, is encouraging. Obama redirects $100 million towards HIV cure research At a White [...]
Just*in Time: March 2014
Posted on April 2, 2014 by A&U in Columns, Just*in Time
Hello Justin, I have seen your Web site and it looks like you are a knowledgeable person about HIV and HIV prevention. I had a possible exposure with another male; I was the bottom partner and condoms were used, but it was my first experience so I immediately got scared. Anyway, I went and got [...]
Where Ghosts Come From
Posted on March 27, 2014 by A&U in Positively Literary
Where Ghosts Come From Fiction by Christian Hanz Lozada The family knows Dad hated mahu, gays. After 20 years here, an American wife and kids, he still acted fresh off the boat to the core, haunted by a wife who hurt his machismo. But he hurt his masculine image when he changed from engineering to [...]
Condom Cutting Room
Posted on March 26, 2014 by A&U in Features
Condom Cutting Room Does the adult film industry have a responsibility to promote safer sex? by Rob Zukowski In recent months, a number of popular all-male adult entertainment video production companies, including Lucas Entertainment, have opted to delve into the production of bareback films. This has sparked heated responses from both the pro and con [...]
Ethel Merman
Posted on March 25, 2014 by A&U in Positively Literary
Reviewed by Nancy Ellegate Ethel Merman, Mother Teresa…and Me by Tony Cointreau Prospecta Press Reviewed by Nancy Ellegate Ethel Merman and Mother Teresa? Both were “other mothers” to Tony Cointreau whose family had made a fortune from the liqueur of the same name. He grew up well-off in New York City, with regular visits to [...]
Race to the Hep C Cure
Posted on March 24, 2014 by A&U in Hep Talk, LifeGuide
Race to the Cure Who are the biggest players now in eradicating hepatitis C? by Larry Buhl Beyond the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, one of the biggest healthcare stories of 2013 was the emerging race of pharmaceutical companies to bring new drugs to the market to cure hepatitis C. The advent of direct-acting [...]
Testing Together
Posted on March 21, 2014 by A&U in Features
Imagine Me & You Testing Together makes it safer to share serostatus, and may help prevent the spread of HIV in relationships by Larry Buhl Since the first HIV antibody test was licensed by the Food and Drug Administration nearly thirty years ago, HIV testing has undergone an evolution. From the two-step blood draw and [...]
Mighty Mouse
Posted on March 20, 2014 by A&U in LifeGuide, Treatment Horizons
Mighty Mouse A humanized BLT mouse model creates a vital platform for drug discovery by Chael Needle In the early stages of drug discovery, many candidates that show promise of effective anti-HIV activity may be in the running. But which ones deserve to move on? That question is answered in part by those researchers who [...]
The History Boys?
Posted on March 19, 2014 by A&U in Columns, Frontdesk
Frontdesk by David Waggoner Martin Duberman is a great man whose collected works of history, fiction, nonfiction, and biography have influenced thousands of writers, probably more than any other post-Stonewall thinker on the planet. But his intellectual rigor is not, and never shall be, the sole reason to read him. His take on the AIDS [...]
Dominique Drakeford
Posted on March 17, 2014 by A&U in Features
Facing AIDS Through Fashion Entrepreneur Dominique Drakeford Uses Her Talent to Spread Awareness by Jermane Graham Photographed Exclusively for A&U by Alina Oswald Picture this; you’re at the first annual World AIDS Condom Couture Fashion Show hosted by the student-run organization Face AIDS NYU. Your expectations aren’t skyscraper high; neither are they below sea level. [...]
