HIV
Education is the solution
By bluerasberry on November 13, 2011
The HVTN conference was from November 7-9. I was there every day. It was cool and I learned stuff but of course the point of a conference is meeting people and making plans together. There was a meetup in the conference which was only for people who are involved in community education, so no scientists. [...]
Posted in HIV, presentation, Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, HVTN
By bluerasberry on May 19, 2011
On Wednesday May 11 we hosted a conference about HIV vaccination in Varanasi. The below is a video from the event, but I have it set to start at a theater and music portion of the event as most of the presentation is in Hindi. I got a notice about an HIV vaccine conference funding [...]
Posted in HIV, presentation, research, work | Tagged vaccine
By bluerasberry on January 31, 2011
I went on a date with Pradeep the next day. He had named some museums and said that we could go to Humsafar Trust. When I met up with him he asked me if I wanted to go to a clinic with him as he was due to get his third and last Hep B [...]
Posted in gay stuff, health, HIV
By bluerasberry on June 22, 2010
The Fremont Solstice parade was on Saturday June 19. I had worked with this guy named Dave who is a physicist and in a band called the Shamaniacs. I enjoyed talking to him because he was good at explaining popular science. The parade was great as usual and everyone brought their dogs and I petted [...]
Posted in festival, HIV, Seattle | Tagged Fremont, Seattle Gay Pride
By bluerasberry on November 20, 2009
The fall conference for the HIV Vaccine Trials Network was here in Seattle November 16-18. This was my second time attending. Conferences like these really get me excited. Part of the fun is in meeting new people who have total expectation of basing a social relationship on the exchange of information. Sometimes I feel like [...]
Posted in education, health, HIV, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged conference, HVTN, vaccine
By bluerasberry on September 18, 2009
On Tuesday September 16 from 9-10am immediately before opening I toured Insite’s facility in Vancouver. Insite is an organization which provides a location and equipment for persons wishing to inject themselves with illegal drugs such as heroin, cocaine, or methamphetamine. Insite philosophy incorporates harm reduction models with both humanitarian and economical objectives. Insite for Community [...]
Posted in drug, health, HIV, non-profit, research, rights, Vancouver | Tagged civil rights, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine
By bluerasberry on June 29, 2009
I spent Gay Pride this year at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center booth recruiting for people who might be interested in receiving an experimental HIV vaccine. The general criteria is that we are looking for people of all genders and sexual orientations who are between the ages of 18-50 and who are willing to [...]
Posted in drug, education, festival, health, HIV, non-profit, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged Gay Pride, HIV, vaccine
By bluerasberry on May 19, 2009
It seems appropriate to me that I and all other people should periodically announce our own sexual disease status as a way to promote the idea that everyone should get periodic STD testing. As the results of my tests show, on May 13, 2009, I Lane Rasberry did not have HIV, syphilis, or hepatitis B. [...]
Posted in health, HIV | Tagged STD
By bluerasberry on February 22, 2009
Twice a year our HVTU CAB (HIV Vaccine Trials Unit Community Advisory Board) meets for fun and to review our mission as a CAB. Part of what we do as a CAB is review the development of HIV vaccine research protocols to the extent that they involve the general public. Whatever information the general public [...]
Posted in education, HIV, research, rights | Tagged CAB, ethics
By bluerasberry on January 13, 2009
I went to a meeting organized by the Washington Department of Health (DoH) to talk about proposed changes to the Washington Administrative Code (WAC). In Washington State (America) there is the Revised Code of Washington (RCW) which is a compilation of all the state laws in force. These laws were set in place at the [...]
Posted in HIV, rights, Seattle | Tagged public health