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Table of Contents

Standing in the Shadows of Love

The Great Doctor / Patient Face-Off

Mailbox

Boy Talk

Girl Talk

Name Recognition

Dynamic Duos

Work That Visit!

It Takes a Villager

Urinetown

Devil in a Blue Dress

U.S. Armed Cervixes

Cell Culture

Milestones

Class Act

Good Book

Rape OutRAGE

It Happened in September

Hitting the Switch

Missed Doses

Overexposed

Count Down

Tailgating HIV

20%

Potty Mouth

Booty Call

London Calling

Test Drive

Aid for Medicaid

Editor's Letter

Lei'd in the Shade

The Wings Beneath His Wind



Most Talked About

Mandatory HIV Tests Before Marriage? (20)

Ready to Quit? The Risks and Rewards of a Potent Smoking-Cessation Drug (18)

In Memory of Jesse Helms, and The Condom On His House (Blog) (18)

Has Bush “Done More” to Fight AIDS Than Any Other President? (13)

Hormonally Challenged (8)

Most Popular Lessons

Herpes Simplex Virus

Syphilis & Neurosyphilis

Shingles

The HIV Life Cycle

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)

Treatments for Opportunistic Infections (OIs)


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September 2003


The Wings Beneath His Wind

by Josh Sparber

A flighty comment made by Continental Airlines CEO Gordon Bethune at an April aviation conference in Denver incensed AIDS advocates, forcing him to issue a formal apology.  Bethune's not-so-winged words?  The big cheese compared skyway-rival United Airlines-which has declared bankruptcy but vowed to regroup next year in a leaner, meaner mode-to being "HIV positive" and predicted that the company would soon do a nose dive, according to industry consultant Scott Hamilton.  Led by AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA), advocates wasted no time pointing out that "HIV positive" is not just a nice way of saying "dying," and Bethune dutifully mea-culpa'd.  "A poor choice of words," he said, adding "while United has many good employees...its mismanagement makes the chances of its successful emergence from Chapter 11 questionable." United, which is APLA's "offline airline" and big benefactor, had no comment.  Bethune would do well to drop the SARS-casm-and a few coins in some ASO cups.

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