HIV
What Do You REALLY Know About AIDS?
If you didn’t know, now you do – December 1st is World AIDS Day! Created in 1988, it’s an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV/AIDS, show their support for people living with the disease and to commemorate those who have lost their lives to it. This year’s theme is “Getting…Read More +
Felix-Gonzalez Torres’ Art at ‘Warhol’ Exhibit
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s latest exhibit, “Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years”, is huge. There are at least forty-five works by Andy Warhol, combined with a hundred works by sixty other artists. As I walked through the crowded exhibition space last Sunday afternoon, overwhelmed by the sheer number of paintings, sculptures, films, and interactive…Read More +
Malawi Clinics Get Free Condoms For A Year!
No, this post isn’t about a contest to get as many condoms as you want for the next 365 days, but it is about winners: the people of Malawi. Red Hot recently showed it’s support for the safe sex education and treatment efforts being offered through Partners in Health/Abwenzi Pa Zu Umoyo by donating 200,000…Read More +
Condom Nation: Bringing Condoms to a City Near You
The Condom Nation tour, an initiative by AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), is a six-month, 40-city tour throughout the country to promote condom use and safer sex. Although the tour has now reached its halfway mark, AHF is still going strong to provide 10 million free condoms and information on safer sex to their remaining 13 cities. Condon-Nation,…Read More +
AIDS WALK NEW YORK
THIS WEEKEND! is the AIDS Walk in New York City. This year the trial will be 6.2 miles and will take place around central park and on the west side. All the funds raised by AIDS Walk New York will go to support the services provide by Gay Men’s Health Crisis or (GMHC) and other…Read More +
Act Up, Fight Back!
Yesterday, April 25th, ACT UP & Occupy Wall Street held a massive demonstration and march on Wall Street. The march called for a tax on speculative financial trading (FST or “Robin Hood Tax“) that would create $530 billion in revenue and generate the funds necessary to end the global AIDS crisis. The march began at…Read More +
Sex Week
A few weeks ago, Harvard University joined a group of colleges including Brown, Northeastern and Washington University in doing a program called ‘Sex Week.’ Sex Week is a student, week long program in which a series of lectures and panel discussions talk about safe sex, rape prevention, and STDs in addition to topics such as…Read More +
Cell Phones Helping the Fight Against AIDS
We know that in preventing the spread of HIV, it is extremely important to get tested for STIs. But in remote villages in Africa, areas most at risk, getting test results from labs was difficult. The information would be sent by couriers and could take weeks…and this delay could be deadly for some people. But…Read More +
Ride to End AIDS
If you like to ride your bike and fundraise for AIDS, do both at the same time by doing the AIDS LifeCycle Ride to End AIDS. It is a 7-day, 545 mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles that raises money and awareness for the HIV and AIDS. The money raised goes to…Read More +
STDs: Now a Collector’s Item
These might be missing from your stuffed animal collection. And despite everything you’ve learned since middle school health class, it’s safe to snuggle up to these sexually transmitted diseases. They belong to the Venereals family of the GIANTmicrobes®, a company started in 2001 with the idea that fuzzy, stuffed, cartoonish representations of the germs that…Read More +
