Activist and Scientist Parable
		An ironic fable which contrasts "personal" and "professional" interests in disease treatment.
	AIDS and Class
		A first attempt to examine the role of social class in the way AIDS is experienced.
	An AIDS Conundrum
		A new twist on an ancient refutation of religious fundamentalists.
	Aspects of Three Holocausts
		Observations on cities where AIDS is devastating gays (San Francisco), IDUs (Milan), or heterosexuals (Lusaka).
	The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
		My personal choices for the two most hopeful, and the two most troubling, potential directions for the AIDS epidemic in the 2000-2010 decade.
	Big HIV Spread Among Young Gays
		Back-calculation from AIDS surveillance data suggests that lots of young gay men are getting infected.
	Blood on Their Hands: The Judgment of History
		Reflections on the only punishment ever likely to be meted out to ruling-class policymakers whose decisions cost thousands of lives or billions of dollars.
	Cavaliers and Roundheads in HIV Prevention
		A metaphor for the controversy between Harm Reduction and Abstinence.
	Combination Therapy: Too Costly, Too Little, and Too Late
		"Cocktail therapy" is welcome, but what about the worldwide majority of HIV+ people who can't afford it? Will it divert energies from education and prevention? And how much difference will it ultimately make?
	A Comparison of Seven Dangerous Environments
		An epidemiologist's cool-headed look at several modern perils which have seen much hot-headedness and innumeracy.
	Consequences of Partial Compliance With Safer HIV Practices
		A surprising finding: reducing your risky practices by two-thirds is much more than twice as good as reducing them by one-third.
	Cost Effectiveness of HIV Prevention
		In San Francisco, it now costs ten or a hundred times as much to avoid each new HIV infection as it did a decade ago. Here's why...
	The Cultural Evolution of AIDS Agencies
		This essay suggests that AIDS agencies have a life cycle of birth, growth, maturity, and decay, just like most institutions...
	The Duesberg Heresy
		Some easy epidemiological exercises to test the Duesberg hypothesis that HIV is not the cause of AIDS.
	The End of the MidCity Consortium to Fight AIDS
		A brief account of the rise and fall of a pioneering outreach program.
	An Epidemiological Virtuous Circle
		In these later stages of the America's HIV epidemic, lowered infection rates are leading to even lower rates, in a virtuous circle.
	Europe, America, and AIDS
		Europe and America are both prosperous, developed regions with thriving gay and IDU subcultures. But one is surviving AIDS way better than the other. Here's why.
	The Four-Forked Road
		In 1998, we find ourselves very near the end of the Age of AIDS, at least as we've know it in the U.S. What's a well-meaning AIDS expert to do now?
	Good Cop, Bad Doc
		An argument that cops will get better and better, and doctors worse and worse, at providing social services such as HIV prevention.
	The Great War and the Great Plague
		The Great War is World War One and the Great Plague is AIDS; much is similar about the ways young men endured these catastrophes.
	HIV and Age: The Great Paradox
		You might think that older adults would learn to avoid AIDS
	HIV Prevention: Our Midterm Grades
		In San Francisco in 2000, our grades for prevention effectiveness are B+ for IDUs and heterosexuals, and F for gay men. Here are some suggestions for improving that failing grade.
	HIV Spread Among Speed Users
		Reasons why HIV spreads fast among people who use methamphetamine.
	The Holocaust of Gay Men
		Is AIDS as much a cataclysm for the world's gays as Nazism was for the world's Jews?
	How You Can Gauge the Epidemic
		Four easy tests that you can do to see whether your local AIDS epidemic is waxing or waning.
	An Ironic Reversal
		Nowadays, young gay men are less HIV-ridden than older gay men, but the opposite may be true in a few years.
	Learning from History
		How San Francisco responded to the great flu epidemic of 1918, and lessons for the great AIDS epidemic of today.
	Lesbians and HIV Disease
		Should lesbians worry about HIV? Not unless they sleep with men or use the needle...
	A Measure Most Grim
		In my address book are the names of 115 friends and acquaintances who've been diagnosed with AIDS. What has happened to them?
	My Failed HIV Initiative
		An account of my abortive attempt to get the Feds to sponsor nationwide bleach distribution so that IDUs could disinfect their rigs.
	Nine Wars and a Plague
		A review showing that AIDS has killed more young people than just about any of America's wars.
	On Contradiction
		Four pesky contradictions which beguile our war against HIV.
	A Perspective from the Bronx
		Some observations on HIV disease and drug use in a part of New York City that has many problems, but keeps going nonetheless.
	Predictions Hopeful and Dire
		On five aspects of the future course of AIDS, optimists and pessimists make radically different predictions.
	Preventing HIV Among Gay Youth
		Seven innovative ways to help young gay men avoid HIV.
	A Proposal for Slowing HIV Contagion Among Africans
		I propose that lubricants, because they are "sex-positive" in a way condoms are not, can save millions of lives.
	The Real Locus of HIV Risk
		Who is still at risk for HIV infection these days, and why? A look at some fascinating San Francisco interview data.
	The Second World Sets Its [HIV] Course
		How AIDS is emerging in the former Soviet empire.
	Sharing Prevention Money Fairly
		To match San Francisco's HIV prevention effort, the rest of the U.S. needs to spend about three times as much. If it did, then maybe it would see the same gratifyingly low HIV incidence rates.
	The Shoe that Didn't Drop
		Three worrisome predictions about a "second wave" of AIDS in America that- thus far- aren't coming true.
	Sick and Poor, Sick and Rich
		An enumeration of the many, many reasons why it's tougher to face HIV if you're poor than if you're rich.
	Speed Speeds HIV Spread
		Clear evidence that speed abuse is a handmaiden par excellence for HIV contagion.
	A Tale of Two Worlds
		San Francisco spends generously on HIV prevention, and estimates a cost of $11,000 for each seroconversion avoided. What about preventing HIV infection of Third World babies?
	The Ten Best Ideas in the War Against HIV
		Innovations which thus far have saved at least 100,000 American lives- without any help from high technology or the medical mandarinate.
	Ten HIV Prevention Brainstorms
		AIDS is prevented at the societal level as well as the individual level. Here are ten bright ideas for effective prevention of the former sort.
	Ten Troubling Questions in the [Middle] Age of AIDS
		Here's a list of ten especially intributing things we don't know about AIDS.
	Ten Years of MidCity Numbers
		A sober comparison of 1998 to 1988, and of a publication which, like the Byzantium, is long-lived, quaint, civilized, and slowly decaying.
	Three Outrageous Notions
		Highly speculative reflections on the Great Pox and chastity, the persistence of fast-lane sexual behavior, and the impotence of drug abuse treatment.
	The Turning Point
		Apt quotations for the beginning of the end of the Age of AIDS.
	Why We Should Fully Fund ADAP
		A forceful argument for enabling every HIV-infected American to try the "cocktail therapy".
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