New HIV strain in NYC poses concern
February 25, 2005 A New York City man in his mid-40s was diagnosed with HIV in December. Since roughly 4000 people were diagnosed with HIV in New York City last year, the diagnosis did not turn heads —...
View ArticleDoctor targets better care for LGBT community
March 18, 2005 When you get him going, Tim Cavanaugh thinks big. His blue eyes get bright and wide, and he runs his hands over his closely cropped hair. When you get right down to it, Cavanaugh, a...
View ArticleHIV Safety Net In Jeopardy
May 11, 2006 The 4000 Rhode Islanders living with HIV were on the mind of Dr. David Gifford when he went to Governor Donald L. Carcieri, and then the House Finance Committee, in late 2005 and early...
View ArticleBarrier Methods
February 21, 2006 Reprinted in the Chicago Sun-Times, February 25, 2007 When Margaret Sanger was arrested in 1916 for “obscenity” (which is to say, advocating birth control), diaphragms were a...
View ArticleThe Court Sentences You To Give Birth in Jail
October 28, 2009 Quinta Tuleh had been in a Maine county jail for 114 days when she went before federal Judge John Woodcock for sentencing in May. Tuleh, 28, traveled legally to the United States from...
View ArticleSwapping Politics for Science on Drug Policy
December 21, 2009 Policy wonks and deficit hawks weren’t the only ones paying attention when President Obama signed the Fiscal Year 2010 Consolidated Appropriations Act last week. HIV activists, public...
View ArticleHot on the Trail
September 2012 Her brown hair pulled back in a ponytail, a twentysomething woman at Mitt Romney’s October 10 town hall meeting in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, asked the presidential candidate, “Will you...
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