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Mark Kleiman and I go Bloggingheads on drugs and HIV in the Russian Federation, poppy eradication in Afghanistan, Mexican drug violence, dealing with drug users and drug sellers in United States.
Archive for the ‘HIV/AIDS’ Category
December 22nd, 2011
December 1st, 2011
Category: HIV/AIDS, public health
President George W. Bush deserves much credit for PEPFAR. Republicans (and others) are tarnishing this legacy with punishing cuts to HIV/AIDS services around the world.
September 2nd, 2011
Anne Helen Petersen has written an intriguing, sad article about Rock Hudson and the gay agent who packaged him and other gay men as movie stars. She argues that Hudson’s sexuality actually made him more attractive to a certain segment of heterosexual women in the 1950s and 1960s precisely because he was handsome, charming, kind [...]
March 24th, 2011
I’ve only seen one or two Elizabeth Taylor movies. I can only identify a few of her eight husbands, and that’s double-counting Richard Burton. I do know that Elizabeth Taylor did a lot for gay rights and for honoring the humanity of people living with HIV and AIDS. She is missed. Taylor caught some criticism [...]
February 16th, 2011
Darrell Issa fires another know-nothing salvo at public health research
February 7th, 2011
Category: HIV/AIDS
Today is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. Worth a moment to remember a quarter-million of our African-American fellow citizens who have died of this damn disease.
November 5th, 2010
Category: HIV/AIDS
So many people have died needlessly of AIDS while politicians like California Representative Darrell Issa make things worse to score cheap political points. The people trying to fight this disease—not to mention those trying to avoid or survive it—deserve better than they got this Tuesday.
August 10th, 2010
Category: Drug Policy, HIV/AIDS
CDC’s new reasonable syringe exchange guidelines are out. Good news. Public disinterest suggests heartening end to HIV culture wars-or disheartening boredom with a still-deadly epidemic.
