Archive for December 2024

Liberals backing away from their preelection and election-time commitments have a touch of the wrong Marx — Groucho, not Karl. A quotation attributed to the comedian goes something like this: “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them, well, I have others.” And that’s the problem. Even if we might be inclined to welcome a tepid, mealy-mouthed mea culpa from Brooks and company, who can trust them? And who wants their advice now? It seems far better to trust those who have long reached and maintained the conclusions and positions that cynical elites are now pretending to discover — the same people who’ll still believe those things, and be correct, when the political winds blow in a new direction.

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced a record-breaking 90.6 percent of people with HIV receiving medical care through the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program are virally suppressed, exceeding national viral suppression rates. Viral suppression means people with HIV taking their medication cannot sexually transmit HIV and can live longer and healthier lives.

Sudbury native was once class president, but in his 20s he ended up on the streets, ‘lost in daydreams’: to mark World AIDS Day, he tells his story

New data from Statistics Finland paints a grim picture of rising drug-related deaths in Finland, particularly among young people. In 2023, drug overdoses claimed the lives of 310 individuals, including 91 under the age of 25. Above: Supervised drug consumption room simulation

T was 23 at the time and had recently left Caldecott, a residential home for children and young people in Kent. Tony had been put into local authority care at the age of six; both his parents had suffered from severe depression, his father having attempted suicide and spent time in psychiatric hospitals. After a time in foster care, he lived at Caldecott for eight years. Above: T at Caldecott.