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PWN-USA Announces its Inaugural Board of Directors & Elected Officers
The following announcement has been posted on the behalf of our network partners, the Positive Women’s Network – USA: For Immediate Release Contact: Naina Khanna, Executive Director, naina.khanna.work@gmail.com Sonia Rastogi, Communications Director, sbrastogi@gmail.com Dear Community, Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN-USA) congratulates our inaugural Board of Directors and elected Officers. PWN-USA’s Board members bring decades [...]
Could you be quarantined for being HIV-positive?
Kansas House Bill 2183 is currently being considered that would allow people with HIV or AIDS to be quarantined: “The secretary of health and environment is authorized to issue such orders and adopt rules and regulations as may be necessary to prevent the spread and dissemination of diseases injurious to the public health, including… the [...]
No Glove, No Love: D.C. Officers Reform Controversial Policy on Condoms as Contraband
Condoms as a form of contraband have been one of the many obstacles hindering efforts to stop the spread of HIV. In such scenarios, individuals may choose to risk their health by not using condoms, and thus increasing their risk of contracting HIV, just to avoid arrest from the police. It is a general standard [...]
Behind the Miracle Cure a Broken System Lurks
By Jim Merrell, HIV PJA ATLANTA, GA – The stories we tell ourselves about the world we live in matter. While we celebrate this week’s story of an HIV miracle cure, let’s not forget the story of injustice that made it possible. There have been a lot of stories about this week’s “Mississippi Miracle” – [...]
Jim Pickett: “VOICE results important to new prevention technology research”
By Jim Pickett, IRMA – The VOICE results are extremely important to the field of new prevention technology research. I hope current/future/much-needed discussions about VOICE don’t get drowned out by the HYPE (yes, all caps HYPE) surrounding the “baby cure” story which has dominated coverage out of CROI so far. If there is one VOICE [...]
