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September 27, 2006
If You Only Knew... Behind The Battle Over Routine Testing
A 55-year-old woman walks into her suburban Denver doctor’s office for a routine checkup. She has HIV on her mind but keeps quiet. Instead, they discuss her grandkids, her diabetes and her golf handicap.
September 20, 2006
Are You Down With Wrapping It Up? Safe Sex Is Confusing for Teens
What if your very first girlfriend suggested you stop using condoms because you were “monogamous”— but she had about a million guys in her past and maybe more on the side? That was the predicament facing a certain State University of New York at Buffalo junior...
September 13, 2006
Saving Ryan White: A Good Bill—or a Bill of Goods?
The executive director of the National Association for People With AIDS (NAPWA), Frank Oldham, stood in a crowded room on Capitol Hill Monday afternoon, responding to what he and other groups consider a potential HIV disaster: the latest draft of the Ryan White Care Act. 
September 06, 2006
Dancing With Diane: Jamaica Takes HIV Stigma for a Spin
A 26-year-old mother of three named Diane will be one of Jamaica’s first “faces of HIV” next week when billboards and TV ads around the country show her cruising the aisles of a grocery store and dancing at a party. 
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