Thousands marched today down the streets of Downtown Washington D.C. with varying messages, but with one common goal: We Can End AIDS. People from all over the country came to D.C. to participate in this march to demonstrate their passion about and commitment to ending the AIDS epidemic. Five key

Today’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, as even the

The regional session on Latin America was informative, happy, and caliente! Panelists included representatives from government agencies, international organizations, such as UNAIDS, activists, and NGOs. In Latin America there are 1.4 million people living with HIV, 1 million of those are men. We were informed that data on the

The big red dot on the map of the International Aids Conference tells me “You are here.” This has the dual effect of helping me navigate to my next session and precipitating an existential crisis, a bit like when people ask me “how are you doing?” Veterans of

Overwhelming is the only word that I can find and that can describe the MSM Pre-Conference: From Stigma to Strength. I was not sure what to expect and kind of thought that it was going to be similar to the many conferences I have attended since I started working in