For the past 12 years, shortly after Mother's Day, scientists and AIDS activists have commemorated HIV Vaccine Awareness Day. It is likely perceived as an obscure observance by most Americans, but one that deserves our attention given this sobering reality: Twenty-eight years after the discovery of HIV, we still have...

By Johnathon E. Briggs and John Peller

With the ongoing economic recession, Mayor Richard M. Daley and City Council members unquestionably face agonizing choices to balance the city's 2010 budget.

While funding cuts and other budgetary reforms will undoubtedly be needed, some essential city services are too important to...

Two weeks after President Barack Obama delivered an impassioned address on health reform to the nation and a joint session of Congress, I sat down with David Ernesto Munar of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago and Julie Davids of the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP) to discuss how the Obama...

For the past nine years the seventh day of February has been set aside to highlight an ongoing crisis: the Black AIDS epidemic.

It's officially called National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (Black AIDS Day for short) and every year as it arrives I think to myself, "What will it take...

Not even the hip-hop trio Salt-N-Pepa could have predicted that their most ubiquitous nugget of pop culture advice ("Let's talk about sex, baby") would be used as a conservative strategy to derail President Barack Obama's $800 billion economic aid plan.

But as the Senate begins debate this week on the...

For tech-savvy teens fond of text messaging and Facebook, the Magic Marker-scrawled protest sign -- "DON'T MUTE THE YOUTH" -- was decidedly old school.

But there it was Saturday, taped to a door inside the offices of Youth Communication Chicago (Y.C.C.) , where a dozen teen writers...