HIV

Hepatitis C and HIV: Honoring World Aids Day

December 1, 2012

In 1981, HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, emerged in the US. It was associated with gay men, and then injection drug users. We can be harsh critics, and America turned its back on those who were infected. Many died lonely, miserable deaths. We did not question our brutal treatment of those we judged. Perhaps we never [...]

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Time Capsule

April 1, 2012

Today is the first entry for The Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge. The prompt is to pretend I am making a time capsule that will be opened in a hundred years. Here is what I would put in the time capsule: Testing kits for viral hepatitis and HIV Medications to treat viral hepatitis and HIV [...]

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