By Marjorie Signer The pending reauthorization of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, commonly called PEPFAR, is a clear challenge for our government
By Nicole Itano After 13 years at the head of the UN’s AIDS organization, Dr. Peter Piot is stepping down. His departure offers an opportunity; a chance
By Sharon Walton Idistinctly remember the first time that I heard the word “AIDS.” It was 1985. I was on Castro Street and I heard
By Mehret Mandefro Silence is a universal metaphor that explains marginalized human experience. With HIV, the silence that cloaks sexism, the silence that cloaks racism,
Reviewed by Eleanor J. Bader Nicole Itano’s No Place Left to Bury the Dead zeroes in on three communities in Botswana, Lesotho and South Africa and scrutinizes
By Cindy Cooper An invaluable health website has special promise for women with HIV-AIDS, but not enough are using it. The new site, PatientsLikeMe (a
by Marcy Bloom What is a woman worth? HIV infections among women and girls have risen in every part of the world in recent years.
By Lisa Vives While “medical tourism” is filling hospital beds in developing countries with patients priced out of the care at home, western countries are
By Janine Avril I feel for all women with AIDS, but my heart goes out to women like my mother who have lived, suffered and
by Alexis Greene Nikkole Salter grew up in Los Angeles. Danai Gurira was raised in Zimbabwe. In 2001, the two women, aspiring actors in their
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