Deborah Latchison states that if she's learned anything at all during her two-year quest to bring awareness to HIV/AIDS within her St. Louis community, it is that the subject is not a popular one ? neither the disease itself, nor the 'Acquired Immune DeficiencieS' that she feels bred the disease: the AIDS of Family, Church, Politics and Society.
More determined than ever to bring awareness and responsiveness, however, Ms. Latchison writes of the politics involved, the sheer indifference and perceived resignation towards the disease. From the church to the streets of St. Louis, Deborah...