HIV/AIDS

Disability rights: A rich theatre of the class struggle

The 1970s saw the development of a very active ex-patient and psychiatric survivor movement. In 1974, the Network Against Psychiatric…

July 24, 2014

Cuban psychologist speaks in NYC on HIV+, LGBT issues

Brooklyn, N.Y. — Breaking new grounds for women — for lesbians, bisexual women and especially for Black women — is…

May 16, 2014

Strikers say ‘End poverty wages at Johns Hopkins Hospital’

Baltimore -- For three days, hundreds of workers picketed, marched and rallied at Johns Hopkins Hospital on Baltimore’s eastside from…

April 16, 2014

Memoir of a midwife delivers wisdom, wit

Ellen Cohen, who delivered 1,400 babies over nearly three decades, has written an engaging, poignant memoir, “Laboring: Stories of a…

February 28, 2014

New York: Protesters at de Blasio inauguration slam NYPD, AIDS policies

A few dozen hearty souls from New Yorkers Against Bratton, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and Occupy Wall Street endured frigid…

January 2, 2014

U.S. riches and poor health

A major study titled “U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health” was released Jan. 9 by National Academies…

January 18, 2013

Boston ACT UP pickets Kerry

ACT UP Boston took its anti- austerity demonstration to the streets and the actual front door of U.S. Sen. John…

November 30, 2012

During AIDS conference, activists confront drug firms, politicians

Washington, D.C. - Thousands of HIV-positive people and activists from all over the globe came to the International AIDS Conference…

August 3, 2012

Protests at International AIDS Conference 2012

Twenty thousand people from 200 different countries attended the XIX International AIDS Conference 2012 in Washington, DC., July 22-27. In the…

August 3, 2012

What will end the HIV/AIDS epidemic?

This year, the International AIDS Conference is being held in Washington, D.C., a city with one of the highest HIV…

July 27, 2012