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AIDS in America According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 1.2 million people in the United States are living with HIV. Blacks, representing only 13 percent of the population, account for 42 percent of all new infections. Whites, making up 76 percent of the population, account for 25 percent. Latinos, constituting 18 percent of the population,… Read more.
She was certainly an iconic figure. The remarkable thing, however, is that her profession had little to do with it. To be sure, she was a very accomplished actress: starring in over 60 films and even winning an Academy Award for best actress for her roles in Butterfield 8 and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf.… Read more.
Last summer, I wrote an article condemning the South African government for its provincial policy towards the treatment of HIV/AIDS, which kills more people in South Africa than in any other country in the world. I condemned the government because, instead of adopting the established pharmacological protocols that have proved most effective, it sent Health… Read more.
The plaintive theme of the 16th International AIDS Conference concerned the increasing incidence of HIV infections amongst women. Indeed, speaker after speaker exhorted women – through commiseration, lamentations and admonitions – to assert greater control over their (sex) lives by zealously protecting themselves against contracting the virus. And they instructed women to prevent this, in… Read more.
