Yesterday was a day with too much news to report! Frank called me from the house at around 8:30 to tell me that the one of the houses across the street was on fire. The street was full of fire trucks (including the ladder truck from the fire station by our condo) and there was [...]

The first and most exciting update has to do with PreventionWorks.  We received two enormous checks today from individual donors, bringing the total amount of donations in response to the articles to over $20,000!  This generosity and eagerness to reach out and support the worthy cause of needle exchange and harm reduction truly overwhelms me.  [...]

The front page of today’s Metro section featured an article about PreventionWorks — the third mention of PW in major news sources in a week! It’s really hard to be leaving the field right as all this positive momentum is building.  If the ban is lifted, I’m sure I’ll find my way right back into [...]

This is a very exciting time at PreventionWorks. (It makes it even harder to be leaving!) I failed to mention that last week’s article appeared on the *front page* of the NY Times with a great photo of Ron Daniels. The article attracted a lot of attention and as of Friday we had gotten over [...]

PreventionWorks was featured in an article in today’s New York Times. There’s also a multimedia presentation that is really great. You can watch it here. Let’s hope this publicity leads Congress to allow DC to spend its own funds on needle exchange so more people can be reached and HIV transmission can be reduced in [...]

It sounds like a headline from the Onion, right?  But this mom was actually kicked off a Delta airlines flight because she was breastfeeding her child.  The following story came directly from Moms Rising.  If you’re outraged, sign the petition at the link that follows. “She was sitting on an airplane nursing her child in [...]

PreventionWorks is featured in this 8 minute film produced by Charles Sessoms, a former employee who now works at the DC Department of Health.  Two of the people interviewed are people that Kristen works with every day — Paola Barahona is the Executive Director and Ron Daniels is the Program Manager.  The film is very well done and [...]

Washington, DC has the highest rate of AIDS cases in the US — 1 in 50 DC residents has AIDS. It is estimated that 1 in 20 DC residents has HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. That gives DC the unfortunate distinction of being the US city with the highest prevalence of HIV and AIDS. [...]