Category Healthcare

HIV infection linked to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Published two days ago, this article confirms something I’ve suspected for quite some time. The article comes via ACT UP Philadelphia and John S James. James is a revered AIDS writer who has been publishing AIDS Treatment News since the early, early days of the epidemic. Many HIV-positive gay men have post-traumatic stress disorder ~ [...]

NOM’s ‘gathering storm’ has become an ‘earthquake’

How do they love us? Let us count NOM’s lies. Exodus Ministries stripped of tax-exempt status in New Zealand ~ NOM Blog An earthquake is beginning: If “gay is like black,” then “Christian is like racist.” The early warning signs are now taking place all over the globe. In New Zealand, Exodus Ministries was just [...]

God Delusioned: Jim Garlow

“Glenn Beck is being used by God – mightily. The left loves to slam him and do so viscerally and often with vulgarities. Glenn is not perfect. (For the record, neither are you or I.) But his expose on America’s sins is stellar. I am convinced his motives are pure. His research department is profoundly [...]

Free Thinking: Bill Maher

“More and more American pharmacists are refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control because of their personal moral objections. Hey, you know what would really teach us a lesson? If you took off your pretend doctor jacket and got another job. … Now, of course, I know the other side is saying, yes, but this [...]

PZ Myers is not dead

Good news, mes amis. PZ Myers is not dead. That will surely disappoint the fork out of the creepy cons over at Conservapedia and the anti-fun, anti-everything-but-pain religionoids at Focus On The Homos But Keep A Close Eye On That PZ Myers Chap. Sorry, FOTHBKACEOTPZMC staffers, there’ll be no dancing in the streets of Colorado [...]

Free Thinking: Pat Condell

“The most positive thing I can think of to say, and this is something that many believers have said to me as well, is that religion gives people hope. It gives them optimism for the future, and that is definitely a very good thing. In fact, it’s something I can certainly relate to because, even [...]

AIDS Healthcare Foundation hits Obama’s paltry domestic AIDS funding

Seeeeeeee… It’s not just Mike bitching about Obama’s National AIDS Scam. Thankfully, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation has been following along (for decades now). AHF: “The additional $5 million being offered today is clearly far less than the $126 million that AIDS advocates have agreed upon as the minimum amount necessary to clear the current waiting [...]

Obama’s National HIV/AIDS Strategy under fire again

Karen Ocamb has a must-read on the con job that President Obama is trying to pass off as a National AIDS Strategy. That long-overdue policy, unveiled with mass quantities of pomp and circumstance last month, could have been jotted down on a cocktail napkin by a stoned 12th grader in about five minutes. As an [...]

America’s uncharitable Christian right

America’s creepy, rigid, arrogant, cruel, know-it-all, pompous, obnoxious, treacherous* right-wing Christians are bandying about the expression “the redistribution of wealth” — meaning: Oh my fucking god they actually expect us to pay fucking taxes! That’s socialism! That’s Fascism! Prosperity is our divine right. Where’s that damn Kenyan’s birth certificate? The French, on the other hand, [...]

Free Thinking: Lawrence M Krauss

“Surprisingly, the strongest reticence to speak out often comes from those who should be most worried about silence. Last May I attended a conference on science and public policy at which a representative of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences gave a keynote address. When I questioned how he reconciled his own reasonable views about [...]

Cal state official urges Bristol-Myers Squibb to reduce cost of front-line AIDS drug Reyataz, ADAPs at risk

Good news! California’s state controller, John Chiang, has urged Big Pharma leviathan Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) to lower the price of its front-line AIDS drug, Reyataz — one of the most expensive AIDS treatments currently on the market. It’s doubtful this would have happened if the veteran activists at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation had not been [...]

AIDS Healthcare Foundation bans Bristol-Myers Squibb sales reps over pricing

Here’s how to hit back at Big Pharma’s unbridled greed. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has banned Bristol-Myers Squibb sales reps from its clinics because the pharmaceutical giant refuses to lower the cost of the key AIDS drug Reyataz to help America’s cash-strapped AIDS Drugs Assistance Programs (ADAP). AHF Bans BMS Drug Reps from Its Clinics [...]

Obama commits to fund global AIDS fight

It’s a shame the global fight against AIDS can’t be waged with the same low-cost lip service the Obama administration has committed to fighting AIDS on the home front. Obama Recommits to HIV at Vienna AIDS Conference www.poz.com President Barack Obama recommitted his administration to the fight against HIV at the XVIII International AIDS Conference [...]

Jim Garlow: Fast until you’re too stoopid to think, then vote Republican

San Diego’s slimiest theofascist, Pastor Jim Garlow, has partnered-up with the thrice-traditionally-married serial adulterer and probable GOP candidate for the US Presidency, Newt Gingrich. In fact, Garlow is serving as President of Gingrich’s Renewing American Leadership. I think the last time I posted a video clip of the rabidly anti-gay Pastor Garlow, he was explaining [...]

No sex education please, we’re Christians … besides it makes you gay

On 9 July 2010, the Family Research Council’s Peter Sprigg chatted with Fox News about sex education (video: iloveJesus420 at YouTube)