All posts tagged "aids"
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Filling the Vaccine Vacancy
September ended with some discouraging news in the effort to make a vaccine against HIV. Pharmaceutical giant Merck announced it was halting its large-scale clinical...
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HAA Hire
Mayor Adrian Fenty announced on Thursday, Aug. 9, Dr. Shannon Hader as the new director of the city's HIV/AIDS Administration (HAA). Hader follows former agency...
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Healthy Relationship
Among the infamous milestones of the HIV pandemic, June 2005 and the figure 46 percent stand out for African-American gay men. It was then that...
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Power in numbers
About 100 people gathered at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Southwest Washington Thursday, May 17, for D.C. Fights Back's HIV/AIDS Speak Out. The goal: Start...
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Positive Nutrition
The kitchen is said to be the heart of the home -- and for people who are HIV positive, it can be the heart of...
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Community Growth
Gigi Thomas is on call 24 hours a day. The transgender client advocate and hotline supervisor for Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive (HIPS), in Adams Morgan,...
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Local News Briefs
Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Eight out of every 10 people living with AIDS in Washington are African-American. That includes Robert Cobb, a 54-year-old gay client...
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Coffee Talk
Grant P. Thompson is not HIV-positive. But 20 years ago, everyone in the gay community -- positive or negative -- was affected by the burgeoning...
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It Starts with Human
For every 100,000 D.C. residents in 2004, 179 were diagnosed with AIDS, the highest rate in the nation. Out of the total D.C. population of...
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Soul Searching
''Back away from the blog.'' That's hard for Andrew Sullivan to do, even if his partner and fiancé is the one asking him to do...
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Moving Forward
The third in an occasional series of interviews and stories on the 2006 D.C. mayoral race. As the D.C. summer begins its annual shift into...
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Health Matters
Crystalization CRYSTAL METHAMPHETAMINE had D.C.'s gay community buzzing in 2005, but not in the usual way. In March, the D.C.-based National Coalition for LGBT Health...
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Examining the Epidemic
With the success of treatments for HIV/AIDS over the past few years, with the near-disappearance of AIDS related causes from gay obituaries, with the continued...
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Paul Kawata
When Paul Kawata agreed to serve as executive director of the National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) in 1989, the organization had a staff of four...
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Adam Tenner
Headquartered in a basement along Pennsylvania Avenue SE, nearly spitting distance from the Capitol, the drop-in center and offices of Metro TeenAIDS (MTA) are very...
