Metro Weekly

All posts tagged "hiv/aids"

  • “‘AIDS Lady’ Socialite Judith Peabody,” 80, Dies in NYC

    Judith Peabody, a New York City socialite known well for her causes, as well as her fashion, died on Sunday, according to The New York...

  • Imposters Arrive

    When it comes to counterfeit smuggling rings, the images that come to mind are generally knock-off handbags or ''Rolox'' watches sold on street corners. It...

  • Navigating an Epidemic

    The White House Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) presented its National HIV/AIDS Strategy during a press event at the White House on Tuesday, July...

  • Animal Magnetism

    Chip Wells presents a mild, polite demeanor. There's a Southern sensibility in the man that makes personal, yet common, questions – his age, for example...

  • Sudden Departure

    During a news conference on Tuesday, June 8, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty announced that Dr. Shannon Hader has resigned from her position as senior deputy...

  • Mixed Messages on Blood

    After a generation of gay men grew up being prohibited from donating blood after having had sex with just one man even one time since...

  • Community Service

    Though no one could imagine in 1991 what would grow from an effort to meet the basic needs of people living with HIV/AIDS in D.C.'s...

  • Blood Talk

    Following up on a March announcement from the Department of Health and Human Services, the June meeting of the Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and...

  • Strategizing AIDS

    The White House Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) presented a tentative outline of a National HIV/AIDS Strategy during a community meeting in D.C. and...

  • Deciphering the Data

    Standing at a lectern in front of the Wanda Alston House, one of the nation's few transitional homes specifically for LGBT youth, Thursday, March 25,...

  • Doctor, Doctor

    Back in the very early 1990s, not long after college and in the depths of my great post-collegiate career crisis — fancy speak for ''educated...

  • Two Decades and Change

    The last time the United States hosted the International AIDS Conference, leading researchers were discussing ''combination drug therapy'' as the likely future of HIV/AIDS treatment....

  • Finding Hope

    Watch a random episode of The Simpsons and you may well hear a panicked Helen Lovejoy -- the reverend's wife -- screaming, ''Won't somebody please...

  • Viral Campaign

    Sometimes advertising becomes art. Case in point: Andy Warhol's iconic Campbell's Soup cans. Thinking broadly, Jeff McElhaney's advertising campaigns of the 1980s and '90s might...

  • ''Hollaback'' Help

    Local transgender activist Dee Curry describes the newly formed ''Hollaback'' support group for transgender people as ''a place where transgenders feel they can come, talk,...