Why I'm Replacing Doomscrolling With Poetry
These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.
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Global Status of HIV/AIDS Pandemic Takes Center Stage in Opening Session
The Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections 2025 opened with a session dedicated to informing attendees about ...
I researched poetry written during COVID. Five years on, here's how people say it helped them
Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written ...
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PA Local Heroes: A summer camp where HIV stigma stops
PA Local Heroes is a monthly feature sponsored by Ballard Spahr. Installments appear first in PA Local, Spotlight PA’s weekly newsletter that takes a fresh, positive look at the incredible ...
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‘Love Is a Dangerous Word’ features a collection of rare 30-year-old poems by Black queer author Essex Hemphill
Revered Black queer poet and activist Essex Hemphill’s literary works have finally returned to print in a newly released ...
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Poetry Podcast
The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...
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US aid freeze puts HIV-positive orphans in Kenya at risk as medical supplies dwindle
Two-year-old Evans was brought to the Nyumbani Children’s Home in Nairobi, Kenya a year ago, suffering from HIV and tuberculosis. With no family to care for him, Evans was referred to the ...
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How can Israelis and Palestinians make peace? Reading each other’s poetry is a good start
Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or hasten a peaceful resolution? Perhaps ...
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US aid freeze puts HIV-positive orphans in Kenya at risk as medical supplies dwindle
Children pick anti-retroviral drugs at the Nyumbani Children's Home orphanage that is heavily reliant on foreign donations in Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Oct. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga) ...
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A Look at Global HIV Statistics
Since the start of the HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) epidemic back in 1981, an estimated 75.7 million people have been diagnosed with HIV worldwide, and 32.7 million people have died of ...
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Trump’s foreign aid freeze halted a crucial program fighting HIV in Africa. Here’s what’s at stake
It is credited with saving more than 26 million lives and is critical to HIV programs in Africa, the continent hardest hit by the disease. There, health officials, experts and people with HIV have ...
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South African scientists were testing a promising HIV vaccine. Then came Trump’s aid cuts
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 18 (Reuters) - South African lab technician Nozipho Mlotshwa was waiting for the test results for a potential HIV vaccine, which has eluded scientists for decades, when the order ...