COMMENTARY | Working to fight HIV/AIDS In these partisan times, it can be difficult to find topics on which we all agree. Ongoing bipartisan support is needed to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States and globally, and we need this support to exte ...
1 Dec 2016 - Stacy M. Cross
I remember thinking there is so much in the world that is so dire and about which I can do nothing. In the mid 1980s HIV was one of those dire things and back then nearly always meant death. It was happening here in my city, my community, but unlike many ...
31 Dec 2014 - Kathy Oliver
Bridget didn’t want to buy syringes at the pharmacy. It was too humiliating an ordeal for the champion gymnast turned heroin addict to go through. Not too long ago she was doing well in high school, never dreaming she would be a junkie within a few years’ ...
29 Dec 2014 - Emily Green
-HIV/AIDS remains an important public health problem in Oregon. From 1981 through 2011, 9,028 Oregonians were diagnosed and reported with HIV infection; approximately 40 percent have since died.-5,384 Oregonians are living with HIV, in addition to an unkno ...
5 Nov 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Portland gets funding for people living with HIV/AIDS on the skids Back in March Street Roots reported on people experiencing homelessness with HIV/AIDS with the story Positive in poverty. In 2010, we also reported on the HIV/AIDS community losing funding ...
27 Sep 2011 - Street Roots