Each year in the United States, over 55,000 people contract HIV. Considering the wealth of AIDS/HIV information that has been dispersed since the early 1980s when HIV first arrived on the scene in the US, the statistics are staggering. Currently, both the International AIDS Society and the government recommend that a patient newly infected with [...]

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Most people would be lying if they said that when they drink alcohol, they are in total control of their inhibitions. Unfortunately for me and the tens of thousands of other college students who had the occasional or not-so-occasional drinking binge, many times inhibitions went careening out the window. Now, I did not go rob [...]

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Papua New Guinea is a mountain-laced jungle located in the Southern Pacific where AIDS infections are growing at a rapid rate and quickly reaching epidemic proportions much like those seen in South Africa. Not unlike South Africa, disgrace at being infected and a health system that is greatly suffering are hindering efforts in Papua to [...]

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