HIV and AIDS

The Biden Administration Turns Its Back on the Pandemic

The Biden Administration Turns Its Back on the Pandemic The Biden Administration Turns Its Back on the Pandemic

Structural violence, social murder, and our national policy of organized abandonment.

Mar 10, 2022 / Gregg Gonsalves

Close up of a Male Health care worker wearing protective equipment, mask, gown and gloves, sitting in a chair beside a closed hospital room looking exhausted.

Why Wishful Thinking on Covid Remains As Dangerous as Ever Why Wishful Thinking on Covid Remains As Dangerous as Ever

Pundits urging us to treat Covid “like the flu” or pushing “the urgency of normal” are just variations of the siren song of surrender to needless death and preventable disease.

Feb 3, 2022 / Gregg Gonsalves

Tuskegee Study Drawing Blood

America as a “Shining City on a Hill”—and Other Myths to Die By America as a “Shining City on a Hill”—and Other Myths to Die By

Time to begin the dirty, essential work of undigging our history, before it kills us all.

Oct 14, 2021 / Column / Gregg Gonsalves

Someone Else’s Discomfort: On Gregg Bordowitz

Someone Else’s Discomfort: On Gregg Bordowitz Someone Else’s Discomfort: On Gregg Bordowitz

How the writer, artist, and activist exposes what is fraught in masculinity.

Oct 11, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Hua Hsu

Covid Positive

The Essential Pandemic Relief Bill Is Medicare for All The Essential Pandemic Relief Bill Is Medicare for All

Covid-19 further revealed that a for-profit health care system doesn’t work. A coalition of House Democrats has reintroduced the bill that secures health care as a human right.

Mar 18, 2021 / John Nichols

COVID Memorial Project

Bury Me Furious Bury Me Furious

This is our last, best chance to finally vanquish Covid-19. We mustn’t screw it up.

Jan 14, 2021 / Gregg Gonsalves

Witnessing the Pandemic From the Front Lines at New York City’s Oldest Public Hospital

Witnessing the Pandemic From the Front Lines at New York City’s Oldest Public Hospital Witnessing the Pandemic From the Front Lines at New York City’s Oldest Public Hospital

Even as we work to treat the sick and prevent Covid’s further spread, we must also remember the dead.

Jul 13, 2020 / Feature / Colleen M. Farrell

Person in PPE taking test samples for COVID-19 in Itaewon

The Coronavirus Thrives on Hate The Coronavirus Thrives on Hate

Homophobia may help tip South Korea back into its Covid-19 crisis. It may also keep America deeply mired in its own public health disaster.

May 29, 2020 / no-paywall / Patrick G. Lee

A person wearing gloves injects another person with a potential Covid-19 vaccine.

How Long Will It Take Until There’s a Vaccine? How Long Will It Take Until There’s a Vaccine?

They told us a vaccine for AIDS might take two years to develop. That was in 1984, and we’re still waiting.

Apr 30, 2020 / no-paywall / Gregg Gonsalves

A lab technician in full protective gear holds a container of test tubes

Beating Covid-19 Will Take Coordination, Experimentation, and Leadership Beating Covid-19 Will Take Coordination, Experimentation, and Leadership

Instead, we’ve seen hype, hope, and desperation.

Apr 23, 2020 / no-paywall / Gregg Gonsalves

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