Last week’s buzzword at the International AIDS Conference is marriage. Not the gay marriage debate currently raging in the United States, but rather the marriage of biomedical advances with behavioral interventions as the next step forward in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Certainly, biomedical advances alone are not enough, […]
To quote the Beatles, “they say there’s gonna be a revolution”, when it comes to social media and HIV. Or maybe it’s already happened. Wikileaks, the Arab Spring (turning out to not be so Spring-like), and the various Occupy movements certainly demonstrate that social media, in which we […]
Brazilian cardinal Claudio Hummes once said, “We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn’t bringing prosperity or social justice to all.” The degenerative effects of this social exclusion even extend to public health. How else […]
Okay, listen up conference attendees, I don’t often assume the mantle of Miss Manners and discuss etiquette, but this is where you’ve driven me. Here’s the background. I work out. I don’t love to work out, but I do like to be able to fit into my dresses. […]
As a working mother, my immediate awareness extends to what meetings I have today, the resolution to the latest office crises, the next presentation I have to make, whether my husband or I are meeting the babysitter, and whether my toddler is testing the theory that he can […]
I have been told repeatedly that I need to start a blog. My experiences on the road are filled with screwy business trip hilarity. My wacky world of non-profits could be a “real world” show. You think celebrity Apprentice (which I have seen live) is tough? Got nothing […]
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