This article originally appeared in A&U Magazine. What do you mean, you’re retiring at the end of the year?! You can’t do that! We’ve been together for twenty years! You can’t just walk out on me like that! When you’re a long-term HIV/AIDS survivor and have been...
What Matters? Don’t Let Health Care Get in the Way
by Dr. Terry Fulmer, President, The John A. Hartford Foundation. This article originally appeared on Next Avenue. When it comes to health care, what matters varies from person to person and differs depending on your state of health or illness. For one person, it might...
Deportees with Few-to-No Options in Mexico
by Jacqueline García. This article was originally published on La Opinión. To read the original article in Spanish, click here. || por Jacqueline García. Este artículo fue publicado originalmente en La Opinión. Para leer el artículo original en español, haga clic...
Vietnamese Death Anniversaries Unite Young and Old
By Christine Nguyen, MD. This story originally appeared on KALW FM's “Crosscurrents.” In 2006, my Mom had a dream. Grandma sat above her, perched on a black stone wall so high her feet didn’t touch the floor. “Mother,” Mom called, “You’re up so high. You might fall to...
The Importance of National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a virus that attacks the body’s immune system, making it difficult to fight off diseases, infections and certain cancers. HIV specifically attacks the body’s CD4+ cells, a type of T-cell that has a critical role in our adaptive...
What happens when the heroes of Stonewall descend on Capitol Hill?
Fifty years ago this June, the global movement for LGBTQ rights was born at New York City's Stonewall Inn, and the people who started that movement -- first a riot, then a revolution -- are responsible for the access that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer...