The White House Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) presented a tentative outline of a National HIV/AIDS Strategy during a community meeting in D.C. and...
Standing at a lectern in front of the Wanda Alston House, one of the nation's few transitional homes specifically for LGBT youth, Thursday, March 25,...
Back in the very early 1990s, not long after college and in the depths of my great post-collegiate career crisis — fancy speak for ''educated...
The last time the United States hosted the International AIDS Conference, leading researchers were discussing ''combination drug therapy'' as the likely future of HIV/AIDS treatment....
Watch a random episode of The Simpsons and you may well hear a panicked Helen Lovejoy -- the reverend's wife -- screaming, ''Won't somebody please...
Sometimes advertising becomes art. Case in point: Andy Warhol's iconic Campbell's Soup cans. Thinking broadly, Jeff McElhaney's advertising campaigns of the 1980s and '90s might...
Local transgender activist Dee Curry describes the newly formed ''Hollaback'' support group for transgender people as ''a place where transgenders feel they can come, talk,...
Besides coffee and a shower, I don't have time for anything else in the morning before jumping into the daily grind. That's my excuse for...
Silence filled the auditorium at the University of the District of Columbia Monday evening as about 200 attendees and a panel of speakers waited and...
Having recently come out of a long-term, mostly sexless relationship -- my first, actually -- HIV tests have been somewhat of an enigma to me....
Jerry Cowden is in the final stretch of fulfilling his lifelong dream -- literally. After setting off from his Arlington home on May 2 with...
From a backyard party to one of the District's most dazzling annual events, to something of a hybrid, Abdur-Rahim Briggs has been doing his part...
Though the air-conditioning kept the sweltering D.C. evening at bay, participants at the Capital Pride Town Hall: D.C.'s HIV/AIDS Crisis could not avoid creating their...
Washingtonians share their District with a virus that refuses to leave. HIV is still here. It can still be fatal. And it's spreading at a...
Dr. Philip B. Terry is no stranger to emergencies. He started volunteering for the American Red Cross when he was 14. And until last year,...