Dr. Barbara Zeller
Medical director of HELP/Project Samaritan, New York City
November 29, 2007
Hollywood Finally Tackles Black Homophobia This winter, start lining up for Dirty Laundry, a hilarious, touching and rare film about a black gay family man starring Loretta Devine, Rockmond Dunbar, Jenifer Lewis and Terri J. Vaughn.
November 20, 2007
BET Raises AIDS Awareness Among NYC Youth Rap-It-Up, BET's Emmy-winning HIV/AIDS prevention campaign targeting urban youth, together with Hip Hop 4 Life, invades four Big Apple high schools.
November 19, 2007
Routine HIV Testing: Recommended, but Are We Ready?
The CDC recommends routinely testing almost every adult and adolescent in the United States to find the 250,000 residents who are estimated to be infected with HIV but don’t know it. It’s one of the most profound public health initiatives ever undertaken, but is the U.S. health care system ready to carry out this recommendation or to care for a deluge of new cases?
November 14, 2007
Changing How the World Views AIDS A new study conducted by the M·A·C AIDS Fund sheds light on global perceptions—and misperceptions—about HIV/AIDS. In short, 26 years after AIDS was first named, many around the world continue to fear and misunderstand those living with the virus.
November 07, 2007
Desert Storm As the National Minority AIDS Council’s United States Conference on AIDS—the country’s largest gathering of AIDS service providers—invades Palm Springs, California, the group’s executive director, Paul Kawata, previews its hard-fought agenda.