Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz describes Alaska’s pending fiscal situation as “an act of budgetary terrorism.”
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Syringe exchange struggles to keep up with demand
The state’s main syringe exchange can’t keep up with demand for clean needles among injection drug users. The Alaska AIDS Assistance Association, or Four A’s, collects used syringes in its Anchorage office and gives out new supplies, primarily to people using heroin and other opioids.
Love, Loss And Beauty Pageants: Inside A Cuban HIV Sanitarium
The “Christian Dior Of Cuba” looks back on bittersweet memories from his time living in a housing facility for people with HIV.
HIV-Positive Organ Transplants Set To Begin At Johns Hopkins
Doctors say organ transplants from HIV-positive donors to HIV-positive recipients will save lives and shorten wait times for everyone. NPR spoke with one doctor who helped end the 25-year ban.
FDA Lifts Ban On Blood Donations By Gay And Bisexual Men
For three decades, men who have sex with men were barred from ever donating blood. A new policy will allow gay and bisexual men to donate, but only if they’ve been celibate for at least a year.
A lifetime of fighting: A history of Alaska LGBT rights
Alaska’s fight for gay rights didn’t start with in 1998, when marriage was defined as only between a man and a woman. It began over half a lifetime ago.
Though Not A Death Sentence, HIV/AIDS Still Holds A Powerful Stigma
Three decades after it emerged, people with the virus are able to live long, fulfilling lives. Still, some say those who are diagnosed now suffer more public shame than that first generation ever did.
Juneau Four A’s to hold World AIDS Day vigil tonight
It’s an opportunity for people to honor those who’ve died to the AIDS epidemic since it began in the early 1980s.
Margot Adler, An NPR Journalist For Three Decades, Dies
Margot Adler, one of the signature voices on NPR’s airwaves for more than three decades, died Monday at her home in New York City.
World AIDS day a reminder of a disease yet to be conquered
The annual observance started in 1988 to increase awareness and prevention of the disease.