Hip-hop artists raise HIV/AIDS awareness within African-American community

May 3rd, 2011  |  by  |  published in Features | 1 Comment »

Maria Davis hosts M.A.D. Wednesday's, an event held on the second Wednesday of every month to feature new artists and raise awareness about HIV/AIDS in the African-American community. Photo by Jasmine Brown.

Local artists perform at M.A.D. Wednesday’s to promote HIV/AIDS awareness.

Living with HIV/AIDS: AIDS Researchers Say Work is Personal

December 11th, 2008  |  by  |  published in Special Reports | Leave A Comment »

Michael Chung, an acting instructor in the Department of Allergy & Infectious Diseases at University of Washington, has lived in Kenya for the last six years doing work through the Center for AIDS Research.

Dr. Stephen Brown was living in Philadelphia when his friends began to die. Brown, the director of clinical research at the AIDS Research Alliance (ARA) in California, knew then that he wanted to join the fight. “I ended up taking a research fellowship at the University of California in San Diego, in the HIV Neurobehavioral [...]

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