In April 2011, Antonio Davis was arrested during a protest on Capitol Hill. Almost a year later, he faces trial because the doctor-recommended marijuana he uses to mitigate the pain from AIDS registered on a court-mandated drug test. more ›

If you're wondering why the Wilson Building looks redder than usual this evening, it's because the District is joining in today's commemoration of World AIDS Day by hosting a number of events and shining red lights on the home of the city's government. more ›

A year ago, the District started an ambitious and innovative program to better test residents for HIV/AIDS -- it started offering screening inside the Penn Branch DMV facility at 3220 Pennsylvania Avenue SE. more ›

Cornell Jones, the director of the nonprofit which is being sued by the city for allegedly using grant funds designed to help people with HIV/AIDS to help build a strip club, is quite the character. So perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that he's channeling his displeasure with the city's lawsuit into legal action of his own. more ›

Cornell Jones, director of the nonprofit group which is being sued by the city for using city grant funds designed to help people with HIV/AIDS to help build a strip club, certainly has some opinions on the matter -- some incredibly homophobic ones. more ›

A few weeks ago, an audit of the District's Department of Health showed that the city had not applied proper oversight on a $10 million grant program designed to benefit HIV/AIDS residential services. Turns out that at least some of that money was allegedly spent on building a strip club. more ›

We often talk about D.C. voting rights and self-determination in very academic terms, but not having either can have very real consequences. Today's closure of one local service provider proves that. more ›

Yesterday, we noted that the District of Columbia Department of Health was going to be testing doctors as part of an initiative aimed to get the word out about HIV/AIDS in D.C. Another big part of that initiative is DOH's "The Rubber Revolution" campaign, which aims to inform people how to use and procure the contraceptives. We're always in favor of getting the word out and are excited to see that the Department had a good time putting it together. Look at those funky 70s fonts! more ›

In what may have been a first, a District agency hosted a free screening of a documentary that made it look bad. But that was apparently the point. more ›

Director Susan Koch allows fascinating individuals to tell their stories in her documentaries. Her subjects rise up to speak their truths, while she films them fighting the daunting battles each has in their lives. more ›

Saturday was National HIV Testing Day, and as part of the national effort to get out the message to take an HIV test regularly, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty taped this PSA with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. more ›

In a city where the HIV/AIDS infection rate has reached epidemic proportions, is it OK for drug stores to keep their condoms under lock and key, theoretically discouraging skittish shoppers, especially teens, from purchasing them? more ›

Much like this weekend's weather, there's little sunshine in this story: the Post reports this morning that current HIV/AIDS levels in the District of Columbia far exceed the amounts associated with a "generalized and severe" epidemic, according to a CDC-funded report from the George Washington University School of Health and Health Services. more ›