Posts Tagged ‘AIDS’

In lieu of yesterday’s World AIDS Day and Consider’s latest issue concerning gay men’s right to donate blood, I felt it only appropriate to shed light on another tribulation concerning HIV/AIDS. The world’s leading contributors to The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria have declared that due to the financial downfall, donation goals will be [...]

by Lauren Opatowski, December 2, 2011

Point author: Casey Pence
Counterpoint author: Casey Pence
Cover by: Matt Rosner

November 30, 2011

Insite, a health center in Vancouver, offers clean needles to drug addicts. Upon first read, this may seem backwards, but the health center claims they are simultaneously fighting AIDS. In today’s New York Times, Donald McNeil Jr. reports that most in the center are not suffering from HIV, and “are drug addicts, injecting themselves with [...]

by Debbie Sherman, February 9, 2011