Metro Weekly

All posts tagged "hiv/aids"

Home / Posts tagged "hiv/aids" (Page 22)

  • HIV/AIDS Report Card

    By on December 19, 2007

    Overall, the District's efforts in combating HIV/AIDS are above average, according to the DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice's third annual HIV/AIDS in the...

  • For the Children

    By on November 28, 2007

    December 1, World AIDS Day, will again mark that sad anniversary that, while a time to tout advances such as an entirely new class of...

  • Keeping the Faith

    By on November 7, 2007

    You don't go to Damien Ministries to die. Unlike its early days in the late '80s, when it was known as Damien House, the HIV/AIDS...

  • Fighting Back

    By on October 31, 2007

    If Washington was compared not to other cities, but to entire countries, ''It would rank in between the Republic of Congo and Rwanda in terms...

  • HAA calling for HIV/AIDS listings

    By on October 10, 2007

    The Department of Health's HIV/AIDS Administration (HAA) is currently preparing an updated version of its free ''Directory of HIV/AIDS Services in the District of Columbia,''...

  • Filling the Vaccine Vacancy

    By on October 3, 2007

    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...

  • HAA Hire

    By on August 15, 2007

    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...

  • Healthy Relationship

    By on May 23, 2007

    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...

  • Power in numbers

    By on May 23, 2007

    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...

  • Revising Treatments

    By on April 18, 2007

    From ''super strains'' of HIV, to exotic and resistant forms of chlamydia, news of sexually related bugs, germs and microbes is certain to prick up...

  • Positive Nutrition

    By on February 28, 2007

    The kitchen is said to be the heart of the home -- and for people who are HIV positive, it can be the heart of...

  • Community Growth

    By on January 31, 2007

    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,...

  • Local News Briefs

    By on January 31, 2007

    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...

  • Coffee Talk

    By on December 20, 2006

    Grant P. Thompson is not HIV-positive. But 20 years ago, everyone in the gay community -- positive or negative -- was affected by the burgeoning...

  • It Starts with Human

    By on November 29, 2006

    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...