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Table of Contents



Precious Stone

More Than Just a Number




Dodging Danger

Northern Disclosure

Ask For It By Name

Learning Latex

Yule Love ’Em

Catch of the Month

Cash Therapy

A Wealth of Trouble

Think Inside the Box

Baby Bonus

New Resistance Fighters




African in America

Windy City Blues

Unfine China

It’s a Wrap

Hot Dates-December 2007

Wake Up, India

Survey Says...

Clean Sweep

Look Elsewhere

Yesterday Once More

A Day Without “Day Without Art”

Medicine Man

Suspicious Minds




Editor's Letter-December 2007

Mailbox-December 2007


Most Talked About

Has George W. Bush “Done More” to Fight AIDS Than Any Other President? (22)

Does Undetectable Equal Uninfectious? (21)

Are Millions Becoming HIV Positive Because Of ACT UP Paris? (Blog) (21)

Service Interruption: Jeremiah Johnson (12)

Stealing HIV Meds to Mix With Marijuana (11)

Most Popular Lessons

The HIV Life Cycle

Herpes Simplex Virus

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)

Shingles

Syphilis & Neurosyphilis

Treatments for Opportunistic Infections (OIs)


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December 2007


Look Elsewhere

by Bob Ickes

Twenty-four years ago this month, the NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere (1982–1988) aired a doozy of a Christmas episode: “AIDS and Comfort.” Broadcast on December 21, 1983, it became the first in TV history to address AIDS—four months before HIV was even identified. The show followed a fictional Boston city councilman who may have contracted the mysterious pathogen either from a blood transfusion or unprotected sex. It set a standard for sensitivity and intelligence often lacking in prime time’s subsequent takes. Michael Brandon, who played the councilman, says, “Everyone said I was committing career suicide. Ten years later, Tom Hanks won an Oscar for Philadelphia—and they called me a trailblazer.”     
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