There is still time to register for AIDS Watch on May 8-10, 2006. So what is it and why should you go? It’s an opportunity to visit Washington DC — and that’s fun place !! — And it’s an opportunity to visit with Virginia’s Congressmen and women, and Senator George Allen (might he be President [...]

Really ….. It is about APPLES and ORANGES ….. The Virginia General Assembly is in a stalemate — the House v. the Senate … And one General Assembly staff member told me yesterday that the only people who can help are constituents calling their own Delegate and Senator. This stalemate IS affecting one new service [...]

Good Morning! Today, I’m writing to bring to your attention TWO events … IN VIRGINIA ….. Our state legislature is not finished with our next Biennial Budget yet! What does that mean for HIV/AIDS services?? Well, I’m asking you to focus on one item that will be important to folks who are both Medicare and [...]

AIDS AWARENESS DAY is Wednesday, February 15, 2006! Why come? Because NOW IS THE TIME TO STOP AIDS IN VIRGINIA Why come? Because the Virginia 2006-2008 Biennial Budget does not include any increases in state funding for HIV prevention or treatment services. We must tell our legislators why that strategy can only cost Virginia more [...]

It is on this day that I remember one person that I met about twelve years ago now. He was a person on one of those HIV/AIDS groups in which many of us participate. Important groups, but oh so tiresome sometimes …. The process and the bureaucracy … He was quite sick when I first [...]