OK girls, listen up. First, drink a really nasty sports drink (my favourite of yore was the enticingly-named Pocari Sweat). Then hang around for half an hour. Now, strap some electrodes on to your ankles. Hang around for another half hour. This, apparently, will take a woman to a pre orgasmic plateau. From here, all [...]
As promised, more on the hideously neglected HIV epidemic in Black America, promoted by a truly admirable report from the Black AIDS Institute. Endless news reports seized on the clever “If Black America were a country it would be drowning in US-funded HIV programmes” angle. Yes, there are more Black Americans living with HIV than [...]
What’s going on with AIDS in the US? I’ve finally had time to comb through CDC’s estimates of new HIV infections in the US, and I’m frankly little the wiser.
Last week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suddenly declared that around 55,000 Americans are getting infected with HIV each year (the estimate for [...]
Thinking back to press coverage of past AIDS conferences, I don’t hear “AIDS activist” and “Voice of Reason” echoing through the same sentence all that often. So I was particularly pleased to read In defence of rational AIDS activism, an exceedingly sensible piece from uber-activists Nathan Geffen and Gregg Gonsalves.
Geffen and Gonsalves take fellow [...]
Is nearly upon us. I’ll be there from August 2 - 6th. See the Events page for sessions I’ll definitely be showing up for. If anyone wants to slope off for a gossip over a coffee or a cold beer, please call or text me on my Mexican cell, which is +52 1 5519042179 or [...]
When UNAIDS put out their new figures yesterday (in a stonking 357-page report), they accompanied it with a press release that began: “New HIV infections and HIV-related deaths declining — however AIDS epidemic not over in any part of the world”. If you made it to the second page of the press release, you’d find [...]
Since the Swiss noted that people who take their meds correctly and don’t have other infections are unlikely to pass on HIV, the public health establishment has been in a tizz over how to react. Predictably enough, Australian researchers have done what epidemiologists with a point to make so often do: — they’ve reached [...]
I’ve been known to take the piss out of scientists who think people make decisions about sex the way they make decisions about what stocks to invest in, nice and rationally. My published references even include “Sex is fun, remember?”. In my experience, a hard-on (or its female equivalent, a wide-on) tends to disrupt rational [...]
Last week, Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche said it was giving up on HIV-related research. I expected some cynical “told you so” comments from industry analysts, but the reaction to the announcement was surprisingly muted. Even AIDS activists were mousy.
Activists have done a spectacular job in slapping down the price of antiretroviral drugs in the last [...]
You don’t need to speak Spanish to get the message of this “AIDS awareness” ad.
Will this sort of generalised pap make you use a condom the next time you get lucky with someone you don’t know too well? Perhaps. And perhaps it will stop you smoking or overeating — it’s that specific.
Thanks to Juan [...]
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