Teri coped with job stress and marital frustration by smoking lot of pot — and picking fights. Sean hated her drug use and criticism but rarelyl said so. When Teri suddenly had to have brain surgery, it was a wake-up call for them both.
Numbers have always haunted the AIDS community: skyrocketing numbers of people with HIV/AIDS, free-falling numbers of T-cells, inexorably rising viral load counts. Protease inhibitors have brought a measure of relief, and more numbers: thousands of experimental drug and dosage combinations being taken by hundreds of thousands of patients.
Note: Editors at POZ asked me and legendary AIDS activist Rodger McFarlane to collaborate on creating this infographic, which we did: Rodger fed me facts and I came up with the copy. (See Image)
Summer’s here — time for kids to get to work. Yep, you read that correctly. “Play is the work of children,” says Dr. Dave Walsh, a psychologist and founder of the National Institute for Media and the Family. “What looks to us like play can be very serious business for kids.” In fact, it instills skills. “Younger kids who crawl into the kitchen cabinet, pull out the pots and pands to play are learning music, geometry and physics…
He’s positive, she’s not. The sex? Amazing… Shawn Decker: I like to say Ryan White hooked us up. We met at a talk his mother gave. Gwenn Barringer: We’re speakers who do HIV education with college students. We’ve been together five years. I’m negative, so we’re doing something right!