Results tagged “aids”

Yesterday afternoon at the Loeb Theater, Harvard hosted a forum celebrating the tenth edition of their journal Health and Human Rights. This edition is the journal's first to be presented in open-access format, meaning that anyone can read it without paying the exorbitant fees associated with most journal articles. Bostonist was in the front row as Agnes Binagwaho, Gavin Yamey, Philip Alston, and Paul Farmer (profiled as “a man who would cure the world” by Tracy Kidder) discussed the past, present, and future of global health policy.

Theater lovers! A rare treat - Part I *and* Part II of Tony Kushner's seminal modern epic "Angels in America" is in town and it runs until Feb. 10. It's about the painful disintegration of two relationships against a backdrop of greed, conservatism, and the discovery of AIDS. Presented by Boston Theatre Works.

-- When the homeless meet gentrification, the homeless get treated like shit. Shocker. [Boston Globe]

There's something about an opening, or an open studio, or even a closing party that makes a statement about an art exhibition. There's usually booze at the start and the end of the run. We'll be honest, it makes the art a little more fun, a little more grown up, and give us enough drinks and we'll start to get more liberal with our acquisition budget. Ok, we don't have an acquisition budget, but wouldn't it be cool if we did…we'll put the dreaming on hold and just head out to see some art tonight. ArtBar is holding RED over at the Foundation Lounge tonight from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Artists we've READ have hung their works over at The Other Side and will be on hand with their works starting at 9 pm.

Breaking the law, breaking the law We -ist folks love us some crime, and no misdemeanor is too petty for a post on any of our sites. This week, join us for a rogues' gallery of miscreants major, minor, and alleged.

On December 1, 1981 the first AIDS (SIDA in several languages) diagnosis was made. Today, in rememberance of that date of diagnosis, is World AIDS Day 2005. Before that science had provided no explanation for a rapidly increasing death. By 1986 donated blood has been routinely screened for HIV. In a practice of questionable morals and rationale, the Red Cross would not accept blood donations from persons who had engaged in homosexual acts (some chapters have changed this practice). Since 198,7 and the first United Nations AIDS program sponsored World AIDS Day, awareness become greater, treatments have become stronger, but the mystery of HIV/AIDS still remains unsolved.

You may recall Bostonist wondering, not long ago, who was responsible for the fliers around town warning us about a social worker named Mary Mitchell-Nixon ("abuser of people with AIDS," the fliers said). Well, alert Bostonist reader Dan Roche brought to our attention the recent appearance of new, more detailed fliers, explaining more about the nature of one man's serious grudge. (The text and a picture of the new fliers are reproduced after the jump,...

Last night PBS premiered “RX for Survival - A Global Health Challenge,” a three-part, six-hour series on worldwide public health. Focusing on innovations in the last century, including vaccines and antibiotics, the series highlights efforts to eradicate disease around the world and comes at a timely moment: The Massachusetts State Legislature is debating a bill that would change healthcare coverage in the state and the White House just yesterday, released a plan to address the...

In the last couple months, Bostonist has noticed a series of photocopied signs taped to lampposts and walls around Downtown Crossing (an example is to the right), warning everyone to "Beware of Mary Mitchell-Nixon, L.I.C.S.W ." The signs, which appear on colored paper, go on to explain that Ms. Mitchell-Nixon is an "abuser of people with AIDS," but they don't say much else. (In fact, the only other thing on the signs is "P.W.A.'s! " While this immediately reminded Bostonist of a certain old-school, west-coast rap act, we suspect it doesn't actually stand for Psychologists With Attitude. "People With AIDS" seems more likely.) This got us (and others) wondering, "Who is this Mary Mitchell-Nixon, what has she done, and to whom?"