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Donna Summer's Letter to ACT UP

When the news hit that Donna Summer had died, I was reminded of the ongoing backlash after the Village Voice attributed some quotes to her from a concert in 1983, saying she slammed gays and claimed AIDS was a punishment from God. Donna Summer wrote a letter to ACT UP New York attempting to mend the divide. A few quotes from the letter were reported at the time, but the letter itself has never been seen publicly until now.

Published
17 June 2012
From
Poz
History of HIV and AIDS
Peter Piot offers an insightful memoir of his circuitous career

An initial interest in infectious diseases in Africa – considered a backwater topic by many of his peers – eventually propelled him to become the founding director of the UN agency on Aids, and now to head the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Published
12 June 2012
From
Financial Times
History of HIV and AIDS
Larry Kramer's scalding ‘The Normal Heart’ comes to Washington DC

"The Normal Heart" will be playing while the 19th International Aids Conference is taking place in Washington. And it’s the fervent wish of Larry Kramer, a writer-activist who co-founded both Gay Men’s Health Crisis and ACT UP, that after all these years, the dying and angry voices of “The Normal Heart” get another chance to whisper and shout to the powerful.

Published
06 June 2012
From
Washington Post
History of HIV and AIDS
Monkey meat that could be behind the next HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is now widely believed to have originated in chimps. Apes are known to host other potentially deadly viruses, such as ebola, anthrax, yellow fever and other potential viruses yet to be discovered. Deep in Cameroon's rainforests, poachers are killing primates for food. Evan Williams reports from Yokadouma on a practice that could create a pandemic

Published
25 May 2012
From
The Independent
HIV prevention policy
Cuba’s AIDS Sanitariums: Fortresses Against a Viral Foe

The network of sanitariums grew to 14. They were harshly criticized — Dr. Jonathan Mann, the first AIDS director at the World Health Organization, called them “pretty prisons” — but they had a huge damping effect on the early epidemic.

Published
08 May 2012
From
New York Times
Policy
Cuba: A Regime’s Tight Grip on AIDS

Whatever debate may linger about the government’s harsh early tactics — until 1993, everyone who tested positive for H.I.V. was forced into quarantine — there is no question that they succeeded. Cuba now has one of the world’s smallest epidemics, a mere 14,038 cases. Its infection rate is 0.1 percent, on par with Finland, Singapore and Kazakhstan.

Published
08 May 2012
From
New York Times
Epidemiology and behaviour
HIV/AIDS: Voices From Cuba

Profiles of a number of Cubans living with HIV

Published
08 May 2012
From
New York Times
Activism
New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt to Become National Treasure

On June 29, the New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt will be ceremonially turned over to Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand's national museum, as a taonga—a cultural treasure—Yahoo! News reports.

Published
27 April 2012
From
Poz magazine news
Activism
How Has Activism Changed Since the Early Years of ACT UP?

We asked community members -- some of them past members of ACT UP themselves -- how they believe activism has changed since ACT UP first stormed onto the world stage.

Published
26 April 2012
From
The Body
Activism
TAG at 20: Early Campaigns

On January 22, 2012, the Treatment Action Group marked its twentieth anniversary. Over the past two decades, we have helped to accelerate a historically unprecedented therapeutic revolution: the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in 1995–96, followed by its rollout to nearly seven million people worldwide.

Published
24 April 2012
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