Trouble at Home? U.S. Called to Task as UN AIDS Session Approaches With a major United Nations AIDS meeting just a week away, this is the time to be heard. Indians are raging on the radio about the price of meds, Israelis are discussing the future of HIV with their parliamentarians—and a prominent array of Americans are wrestling the spotlight from the Bush administration’s programs overseas to shine it instead on failures at home.
May 17, 2006
A Jar Half Full: Free Condoms Come to Harlem Brenda Turner and Deborah Boston never arrive empty-handed at the Harlem hair and nail salons, community events and hardware stores they visit each week. They pack jars full of condoms that are free for the taking, and the jars empty out fast. “I have to replenish the hardware store supplies all the time,” says Boston.
May 10, 2006
What a Drag: Smoking and HAART Butt Heads Smoking is bad for your health—that’s not news. But the nearly 70% of people with HIV who light up on a regular basis might be interested to know about a new study showing that smoking may also reduce the benefits of HIV meds.
May 03, 2006
AIDS Activism 101: Campus Crusaders Bone Up Melissa Haas, a 22-year-old senior at Central Connecticut State University, took a bite of her sandwich, eyed the clamor of college AIDS activists networking around her in a New York University lunchroom and grinned.
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