by Bach Polakowski | May 15, 2014 | Guest Contributor
By Benjamin Ryan (Editor-at-Large, POZ) Soy sauce has become the latest supermarket item to contain the answer to HIV, according to a savory smorgasbord of reporting in the popular press. But don’t go downing bottles of the brine just yet, because there’s a small...
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 23, 2014 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
In 2013 and the first quarter of 2014, weekday evening cable news shows on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC underreported major stories on HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and research, according to an analysis by Media Matters. In 2013, CNN had 11 mentions, with MSNBC and Fox...
by Bach Polakowski | Feb 24, 2014 | Guest Contributor
By Benjamin Ryan (Editor-at-Large, POZ) A study showing that a component of marijuana modulates the disease progression of the simian version of HIV in the guts of monkeys has led to a rash of hyperbolic and highly inaccurate reporting of the research in the popular...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 7, 2013 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
Born: 1954 Died: 1988 “The bottom line is this: We are black men who are proudly gay. What we offer is our lives, our loves, our visions … We are coming home with our heads held up high.” -Joseph Beam Joseph Beam is an official honoree today for LGBT...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 29, 2013 | Guest Contributor
By James Miller (Media Critic, WFPL) In the early days of the AIDS epidemic, most people had no idea how AIDS was transmitted. Even as late as 1999, many people believed that they could get AIDS from public toilets or sharing drinking glasses with an HIV-positive...
