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Last week, one of my twitter followers called me to task for writing an entire column on HIV and AIDS without focusing on the huge disparities by race/ethnicity. She was certainly correct about the critical role of such disparities. Yesterday–again on twitter–Chicago commissioner of public health Bechara Choucair drew my attention to an especially pertinent [...]
Archive for the ‘HIV/AIDS’ Category
May 9th, 2012
This won’t matter politically, but the Affordable Care Act quietly improves public health by expanding coverage for hundreds of thousands of ex-prisoners and others under the control of the criminal justice system.
March 26th, 2012
Hundreds of thousands of people could be helped through opt-out hepatitis C testing in correctional settings.
December 22nd, 2011
Mark Kleiman and I go Bloggingheads on drugs and HIV in the Russian Federation, poppy eradication in Afghanistan, Mexican drug violence, dealing with drug users and drug sellers in United States.
December 1st, 2011
Category: HIV/AIDS, public health
President George W. Bush deserves much credit for PEPFAR. Republicans (and others) are tarnishing this legacy with punishing cuts to HIV/AIDS services around the world.
September 2nd, 2011
Anne Helen Petersen has written an intriguing, sad article about Rock Hudson and the gay agent who packaged him and other gay men as movie stars. She argues that Hudson’s sexuality actually made him more attractive to a certain segment of heterosexual women in the 1950s and 1960s precisely because he was handsome, charming, kind [...]
March 24th, 2011
I’ve only seen one or two Elizabeth Taylor movies. I can only identify a few of her eight husbands, and that’s double-counting Richard Burton. I do know that Elizabeth Taylor did a lot for gay rights and for honoring the humanity of people living with HIV and AIDS. She is missed. Taylor caught some criticism [...]
February 16th, 2011
Darrell Issa fires another know-nothing salvo at public health research
February 7th, 2011
Category: HIV/AIDS
Today is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. Worth a moment to remember a quarter-million of our African-American fellow citizens who have died of this damn disease.