Results tagged “hivaids”

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.

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?

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.