HIV and Aging Draw Big Crowd at Town Meeting
BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Hundreds turned out for a town hall meeting on AIDS and aging that was convened in response to the death of a leading member of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. “A kind...
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BY SAM SPOKONY | In the midst of a career built on cutting-edge research about the LGBT population, not to mention a personal life on the front lines of the HIV epidemic, Dr. Perry N. Halkitis isn’t...
View ArticleDeath by Gender: Leelah Alcorn
BY KELLY COGSWELL | When I try to think about gender, I have to go lie down with smelling salts, my head swirling with all the complications that we pull on like clothes over our biological sex. Even...
View ArticleGoing Beyond HIV to Engage Young Gay Men in Health Care
BY RICHARD E. GREENE, MD & PERRY N. HALKITIS, PhD, MS, MPH | Over the past 30-plus years, conversations between primary health care providers and their gay patients have focused largely on HIV...
View ArticleA Morning-After Pill for HIV; But Seriously, the Morning After
BY RICHARD E. GREENE, MD & PERRY N. HALKITIS, PhD, MS, MPH | In the past few years, we have experienced a revolution in the prevention of HIV. Gone are the days when approaches based on changing...
View ArticleMeth Kills — And Evidence Points to Its Upswing in NYC
BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Deaths from methamphetamine overdoses increased 160 percent from 2013 to 2014 in New York City, according to data from the city health department. The department reports that...
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Listening to the Stories of AIDS Survival
Dr. Perry N. Halkitis (front, left) with some of the 15 men he interviewed for his book. | SAM SPOKONY In the midst of a career built on cutting-edge research about the LGBT population, not to mention...
View ArticleDeath by Gender: Leelah Alcorn
BY KELLY COGSWELL | When I try to think about gender, I have to go lie down with smelling salts, my head swirling with all the complications that we pull on like clothes over our biological sex. Even...
View ArticleGoing Beyond HIV to Engage Young Gay Men in Health Care
BY RICHARD E. GREENE, MD & PERRY N. HALKITIS, PhD, MS, MPH | Over the past 30-plus years, conversations between primary health care providers and their gay patients have focused largely on HIV...
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A Morning-After Pill for HIV; But Seriously, the Morning After
IMAGE COURTESY: FENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER BY RICHARD E. GREENE, MD & PERRY N. HALKITIS, PhD, MS, MPH | In the past few years, we have experienced a revolution in the prevention of HIV. Gone...
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Meth Kills — And Evidence Points to Its Upswing in NYC
COVER DESIGN BY MICHAEL SHIREY. BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Deaths from methamphetamine overdoses increased 160 percent from 2013 to 2014 in New York City, according to data from the city health department....
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