Break the Silence, End the Stigma
by Mary Lou Greenberg “Silence = Death.” The shout of AIDS activists cut like a knife through public ignorance, denial and ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg “Silence = Death.” The shout of AIDS activists cut like a knife through public ignorance, denial and ...
by Dr. Ann Boyer When I began working with HIV in the 1980s, women still had a 9 to 30 ...
by Mahin Hassibi Medical specialists in different fields complain about insurance companies or the Medicare rates; otherwise “talking shop” only ...
By Mary Lou Greenberg Gender-blind spots in assessing the HIV/AIDS epidemic today are key factors in today’s deadly ignorance about ...
by Molly M. Ginty A73-year-old grandmother in Kansas City, Kansas. A 16-year-old Bronx girl living in a foster home. A ...
by Merle Hoffman Welcome to the May/June 2008 edition of On The Issues Magazine Online, the first full edition of our new Internet ...
By The Editors Over the years, HIV-AIDS has been demonized and stigmatized, especially by religious reactionaries. Family “values” conservatives oppose ...
Reviewed by Eleanor J. Bader Nicole Itano’s No Place Left to Bury the Dead zeroes in on three communities in ...
OTI Online provides a new forum for artists to present contemporary art in relation to the topic for that issue. ...
By Cynthia Soohoo and Katrina Anderson More than half of all new HIV infections in the U.S. occur before the ...
By Marjorie Signer The pending reauthorization of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, commonly called PEPFAR, is a ...
By Nicole Itano After 13 years at the head of the UN’s AIDS organization, Dr. Peter Piot is stepping down. His departure ...
By Sharon Walton Idistinctly remember the first time that I heard the word “AIDS.” It was 1985. I was on ...
By Mehret Mandefro Silence is a universal metaphor that explains marginalized human experience. With HIV, the silence that cloaks sexism, ...
Reviewed by Eleanor J. Bader Nicole Itano’s No Place Left to Bury the Dead zeroes in on three communities in Botswana, Lesotho ...
By Cindy Cooper An invaluable health website has special promise for women with HIV-AIDS, but not enough are using it. ...
by Marcy Bloom What is a woman worth? HIV infections among women and girls have risen in every part of ...
By Lisa Vives While “medical tourism” is filling hospital beds in developing countries with patients priced out of the care ...
By Janine Avril I feel for all women with AIDS, but my heart goes out to women like my mother ...
by Alexis Greene Nikkole Salter grew up in Los Angeles. Danai Gurira was raised in Zimbabwe. In 2001, the two ...
By Larry Schulte The AIDS/ART/WORK conference in New York earlier this summer brought together a distinguished group of professionals from ...
By Natalie Bell There is another side to the stories that occasionally break out into the public, such as with ...
By Mina Assidi Singer Gissoo Shakeri and poet Mina Assidi, both of whose works are banned in the Islamic Republic ...
Poems by Gale Jackson Conversations with love: 25 and her sister’s dead. it’s a full moon and who would know ...
Twenty-five years ago I began On the Issues as a newsletter of Choices Women’s Medical Center in an effort to ...
By MaryLou Greenberg Iranian women are today in the forefront of determined resistance to the oppressive theocracy of the Islamic ...