The Fine Print Blog

By Adrian Guzman

The mayoral candidates' statements regarding the lack of consumer involvement in the Planning Council are not only inaccurate, but also disrespectful to all of us who work to ensure access to medical and support services in New York, and especially to the nearly one-half of the Council members living with HIV.

By Iván Espinoza-Madrigal

Since New York City is the epicenter of the domestic HIV epidemic – and carries the attendant individual, community, and economic costs – all New Yorkers should know whether the mayoral candidates are committed to tackling the causes and consequences of HIV.

By Catherine Hanssens and Iván Espinoza-Madrigal

Slashing funding for HIV will deprive communities of color of vital resources and support. 

By Catherine Hanssens, Exec. Director & Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, Legal Director

Black men, people of color, queer people, transgender people, and those living with HIV historically have been perceived as inherently suspicious, dangerous, and threatening.

By Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, Executive Director, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health

The blog brings up some of the downsides of the immigration bill passed by the Senate.

By Catherine Hanssens, Exec. Director and Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, Legal Director

The Supreme Court may have dismantled DOMA but also diluted affirmative action and gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.

By Iván Espinoza-Madrigal
Legal Director, The Center for HIV Law and Policy

As we hit milestones in the movement for LGBT equality in military bases and marriage license bureaus across the country perhaps we should adopt a new mantra for the next generation of our struggle: Leave No Queer Behind! If we embrace this principle, we will have no choice but to re-embrace the struggle to end HIV-related stigma and discrimination.

By Iván Espinoza-Madrigal
Legal Director, The Center for HIV Law and Policy

As immigration reform comes to the forefront in Congress, public health advocates should realize they have a dog in this fight. Basic legal protections for immigrants would allow many who would benefit from HIV diagnosis, treatment, and other health care to safely come out of the shadows.

At the beginning of this month, we lost John Falkenberg, a uniquely brilliant, generous and funny human being.  Several of his friends wrote remembrances, and they all sound a strikingly similar theme. We reprint them here to honor, in a very small way, a very big life.