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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

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 …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

Having Children When You Have HIV – Still a Problem?

by Dr. Ann Boyer When I began working with HIV in the 1980s, women still had a 9 to 30 …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

Talking Shop in the Medical Field: The Unfolding of A Strange New Disease

by Mahin Hassibi Medical specialists in different fields complain about insurance companies or the Medicare rates; otherwise “talking shop” only …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

Media Missteps + Misogyny = Death for Women

By Mary Lou Greenberg Gender-blind spots in assessing the HIV/AIDS epidemic today are key factors in today’s deadly ignorance about …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

In the U.S., AIDS Spreads Rapid-Fire And Crosses the Gender Divide

by Molly M. Ginty A73-year-old grandmother in Kansas City, Kansas. A 16-year-old Bronx girl living in a foster home. A …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

A Message from the Publisher – Plus ca change

by Merle Hoffman Welcome to the May/June 2008 edition of On The Issues Magazine Online, the first full edition of our new Internet …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

Bad Thoughts

By The Editors Over the years, HIV-AIDS has been demonized and stigmatized, especially by religious reactionaries. Family “values” conservatives oppose …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

BOOK REVIEW: AIDS, Women, Africa

Reviewed by Eleanor J. Bader Nicole Itano’s No Place Left to Bury the Dead zeroes in on three communities in …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

The Art Perspective: May ’08

OTI Online provides a new forum for artists to present contemporary art in relation to the topic for that issue. …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

High Rates of HIV and STIs Show the U.S. Is Flouting Teens’ Human Rights

By Cynthia Soohoo and Katrina Anderson More than half of all new HIV infections in the U.S. occur before the …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

Global Gag Rule Poses Moral Challenge for U.S. HIV/AIDS Funding

By Marjorie Signer The pending reauthorization of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, commonly called PEPFAR, is a …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

Time to Rethink Global HIV/AIDS Care

By Nicole Itano After 13 years at the head of the UN’s AIDS organization, Dr. Peter Piot is stepping down. His departure …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

“I Don’t Want to Write the Book” – AIDS and Listening to Women

By Sharon Walton Idistinctly remember the first time that I heard the word “AIDS.”  It was 1985.  I was on …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

Once the silence has been broken

By Mehret Mandefro Silence is a universal metaphor that explains marginalized human experience. With HIV, the silence that cloaks sexism, …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

No Place Left to Bury the Dead: Denial, Despair, and Hope in the African AIDS Pandemic

Reviewed by Eleanor J. Bader Nicole Itano’s No Place Left to Bury the Dead zeroes in on three communities in Botswana, Lesotho …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

Not Enough Women Use Web Resource

By Cindy Cooper An invaluable health website has special promise for women with HIV-AIDS, but not enough are using it. …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

What is a Woman Worth? The Global Story is the Feminization of a Pandemic

by Marcy Bloom What is a woman worth? HIV infections among women and girls have risen in every part of …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

African Woman With Aids Rebuffed For Life-Saving Care

By Lisa Vives While “medical tourism” is filling hospital beds in developing countries with patients priced out of the care …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

Women with AIDS: Off the Radar Screen

By Janine Avril I feel for all women with AIDS, but my heart goes out to women like my mother …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

THEATER ARTS: Continental Bridges and Stage Firsts “In The Continuum” Tells Women’s Missing HIV Stories

by Alexis Greene Nikkole Salter grew up in Los Angeles. Danai Gurira was raised in Zimbabwe. In 2001, the two …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

ART STILL VITAL TO AIDS ACTIVISM

By Larry Schulte The AIDS/ART/WORK conference in New York earlier this summer brought together a distinguished group of professionals from …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

The Down Low Effect

By Natalie Bell There is another side to the stories that occasionally break out into the public, such as with …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

No! Now is the Time to Do Battle

By Mina Assidi Singer Gissoo Shakeri and poet Mina Assidi, both of whose works are banned in the Islamic Republic …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

The Poet’s Eye: Spring ’08

Poems by Gale Jackson Conversations with love: 25 and her sister’s dead. it’s a full moon and who would know …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

A Message from the Publisher: Merle Hoffman

Twenty-five years ago I began On the Issues as a newsletter of Choices Women’s Medical Center in an effort to …

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2008 Spring, First Full Online Edition

Iranian Women Today – Fighting Two Enemies

By MaryLou Greenberg Iranian women are today in the forefront of determined resistance to the oppressive theocracy of the Islamic …

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