Work has again gotten the best of me. With 30-ish days left in this tour of service things have picked up at an alarming speed. With that said, I wanted to get back into the blogging routine with a Five Things Friday post; 5 things that are going on for me this week. 1. iPhone…
Category: HIV/AIDS
Getting Equal (Healthcare)
We don’t know nearly enough about the health outcomes of the LGBT community. In fact we know nearly nothing at all. Recently the National Institutes for Health (NIH) put out a request to the Institute of Medicine (IoM) to find out exactly how much is known about LGBT health. The answer? Not a whole lot….
Sexual Health Sunday: Get Tested
During my senior year of college I had the opportunity to take one of the best classes my school had to offer; Health Psychology. In this class we talked about the psychology of public health and different models that could be used to alter people’s attitudes toward their own wellbeing. In one assignment we were…
Sexual Health Sunday: 3 Alternative Contraceptive Methods That Never Quite Made It
Before we get into the content of this post I want to start with a disclaimer. The following material is admittedly hetero-centric and not without reason. I chose to highlight contraception this week due to the continued battle to save Planned Parenthood. Two of the three methods I write about are not effective against HIV,…
We’re Still Here…
HIV/AIDS turned 30 a couple years ago and because of medicines many folks are living longer but what about my brothers and sisters who are still over-represented in the reported HIV/AIDS data. Black and African American folks are no more likely to engage in risky behavior than our White and Latino peers but we’re accessing prevention efforts and staggeringly low rates…why? Folks aren’t listening to us, they don’t know where we’re coming from…all this in an age where ‘Diversity’ and ‘Cultural Competence’ are words du jour.
AEGiS-WashBlade: Linking HIV and the ‘DL’: Critics say media portrayals not backed by scientific facts
AEGiS-WashBlade: Linking HIV and the ‘DL’: Critics say media portrayals not backed by scientific facts. I had the pleasure of listening to a talk given by Emory University’s Dr. Malebranche and I left with such a new outlook on health disparities within Black/AfAm MSM community. I’ll be completely honest and say that I expected the…
Accountability. What it means for you and those you love.
http://www.poz.com/articles/iowa_hiv_sentence_1_16596.shtml An HIV-positive Iowa man was sentenced May 8 for failing to disclose his status to a male sexual partner to 25 years in prison, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports. The sentence is the maximum penalty for the class B felony. It was not reported whether a condom was used during the one-time encounter. According to…
POZ – News : White House Launches “Act Against AIDS” Campaign in U.S.
POZ – News : White House Launches “Act Against AIDS” Campaign in U.S. . In (what I would characterize as) a huge step forward for HIV/AIDS interventions, President Obama has invested $45 million dollars in the “Act Against AIDS” program which seeks to educate Americans about HIV/AIDS and hopefully inspire catharsis in communities affected. Not…
HIV/AIDS, Health Disparities, and Communities of Color: Challenges and Opportunities
HIV/AIDS…although we’re 30 years from the first reported case, it’s still around. How do we deal with it?
