Giving Birth, Contesting Stigma: Cuban Women Living With HIV

Giving Birth, Contesting Stigma: Cuban Women Living With HIV

Since 2001, the local manufacture in Cuba of eight antiretroviral drugs has guaranteed access to effective AIDS therapy to all ...
Latinos ACT UP: Transnational AIDS Activism in the 1990s

Latinos ACT UP: Transnational AIDS Activism in the 1990s

When the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) was founded in New York in 1987, it not only introduced ...
Colombia: AIDS in the Time of War

Colombia: AIDS in the Time of War

A few months before Myrian Cossio’s 20th birthday, in San José del Guaviare, a bustling frontier town deep in Colombia’s ...
A Case for Guarded Optimism: HIV/AIDS in Latin America

A Case for Guarded Optimism: HIV/AIDS in Latin America

In 2004 I interviewed Eva, a transgender former prostitute in Oaxaca, Mexico. She was an attractive 28-year-old with long brunette ...
Five Years Later: Judging Bush’s AIDS Initiative

Five Years Later: Judging Bush’s AIDS Initiative

In January 2003, President George W. Bush announced his plan to ask Congress for $15 billion to fight the global ...
AIDS Solidarity as Policy: Constructing the Brazilian Model

AIDS Solidarity as Policy: Constructing the Brazilian Model

Perhaps more than any other modern epidemic, HIV spread around the world in ways that made it the first, and ...
Musica Against Drugs: Fighting AIDS with Salsa

Musica Against Drugs: Fighting AIDS with Salsa

MUSICA AGAINST DRUGS: FIGHTING AIDS WITH SALSA Musica Against Drugs' emphasis on Puerto Rican identity and culture, as expressed through ...