Collecting My Thoughts

This week at Lakeside we have a foreign film series, but these are all in English and two are about international adoptions, Philomena (Brit...

On 8 June, at the ‘High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS’ the Member States of the United Nations adopted the ‘Political Declaration on HIV a...

Approximately 70% of the new HIV/AIDS cases are in sub-Saharan Africa. Most people living with HIV or at risk for HIV do not have access to ...

A systematic review of studies of HIV among transgender women suggests that the prevalence of HIV in the United States is 27.7% among all tr...

The internet is allowing more hookups for sex. The appearance of Craigslist in a given region was associated with a 15.9% increase in HIV in...

“Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) continue to bear the greatest burden of HIV infection in the United States. 1 I...

Many more young black men will be affected by HIV than will ever face a problem with Ferguson police or Ebola. Where are Jesse and Al? ...

In 1984, the HIV virus was identified by the U.S. Public Health Service and French scientists. In 1985, a blood test to detect HIV was licen...

"Published research does not provide definitive answers about why new HIV infections among young, black/African American gay, bisexual,...

By race, age and risk group, young, black gay and bisexual men (ages 13-29) are the only population in the United States in which new HIV in...

Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) are more severely affected by HIV than any other group in the United States. The go...

Men who have sex with men is the primary way HIV/AIDS is spread.  Although less than 14% of the population, blacks (men and women) have 44...

Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) represent approximately 2% of the US population, yet are the population most sever...

Worldwide, hepatitis B virus (HBV) is the leading cause of chronic liver disease and death, accounting for up to half of all cases of cirrho...

What does the Bible consider high risk sexual behavior? (10 commandments, OT; Hebrews, NT) 1) Any sexual relations outside the marriage ...

The gains in our life expectancy in the United States have primarily been in the area of public health, not miracle technology, end of life ...

The new golden goose. Disparities . It's must be the magic word for getting grant$$. African-Americans have the highest life time risk...

It's not often I have to defend President Obama, but truly, he really didn't mean he was funding AIDS--he meant he was funding the f...

One of the most famous violations of human rights is the U.S. government's Public Health Service study of poor black men infected with s...

JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) periodically has a topic specific issue, and July 21, Vol. 304, no.3, was on HIV/AIDS. No...