Category Archives: HIV/AIDS

Sightings in Cuba

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Peggy L Chinn

Earlier this month I spent a week in Cuba on a trip organized around the theme ‘Health Across Borders” sponsored by MEDICC (Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba). The entire experience was wonderful and amazing on many different levels, among which was … Continue reading →

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John-Manuel Andriote on Gay Men’s Resilience

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Thomas Lawrence Long

As we’ve written before, the capacity to bend in life’s storms without breaking is an important virtue, which is cultivated not by coddling a “cloistered virtue” but by testing and using these psychic “muscles,” is essential to mental and physical wellness. Also known … Continue reading →

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HIV/AIDS 30 Years On: MSM Ignorant, In Denial

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Thomas Lawrence Long

For more than three decades we have lived with HIV/AIDS. The earliest years of the epidemic were characterized by both dread and hope, anxiety and action. Community-based peer education and activism emerged among sexual minority collectives. When public officials failed … Continue reading →

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Sexual Minorities and the Crisis of Legitimation in Medicine

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Thomas Lawrence Long

More than thirty years on from the first appearance in print of what we in North America now name HIV/AIDS (or SIDA in other parts of the globe), a recent report of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies … Continue reading →