[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch” ] [bylines] T wo weeks ago, I was talking to history professor George Chauncey ’77 GRD ’89 when he reached back into his memory to describe the late professor John Boswell. He couldn’t find words of his own, so he relied on a story. One day while walking out of Boswell’s […]
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Our HIV crisis: PrEP is not a cure
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch” ] [bylines] T ake a pill daily and prevent the contraction of HIV 99 percent of the time. That is the narrative presented to many young men who have sex with men (MSM) by their peers regarding pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). And, as is normally the case with anything framed in such […]
Our HIV crisis: What if?
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch” ] [bylines] I would venture a guess that, for those who undergo routine STI testing, it is not uncommon to play the “What if” game — “What if I have an STI (be it gonorrhea, chlamydia, whatever)?” [inline_comment uuid=”” charlimit=”” prompt=”Has society effectively confronted issues emerging from ‘Our HIV crisis’? What role […]
Our HIV crisis: All incidence is not equal
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch” ] [bylines] Despite representing only 13 percent of the U.S. population, African Americans account for nearly half of all new HIV infections each year. Rates of transmission among injecting drug users, black women and black infants born to [annotation action=”hover” type=”top” tip=”Testing positively in a blood serum test for a virus.”]seropositive[/annotation] […]
Our HIV crisis: Young and at risk
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch” ] [bylines] In most students’ minds, the HIV/AIDS crisis was an event of the past: a bleak time of public condemnation of men who have sex with men, a searing recognition of the absence of legal and human rights afforded to affected communities and, for many, a period of intense sadness […]