2 results for month: 09/2022
IN THE MEDIA: Life after monkeypox
By Benjamin RyanNBC News
"Harlem United’s Preston Wholly said he works with his clients who have contracted the virus to cut through the harmful stigma tied to contracting monkeypox. "'We really want to process that it wasn’t their fault and work through the guilt and shame and kind of normalize it,' he said."During the four months of the monkeypox outbreak, health care providers, researchers and an anxious public have scrambled to determine how the virus transmits, how to prevent it and how the infection plays out in the body.Little attention has been paid to what comes after the infection clears.Following recovery from this skin lesion–...
IN THE MEDIA: How monkeypox spoiled gay men’s plans for an invincible summer
By Benjamin RyanNBC News
Hesitance from family members (to hug gay men), said Ben Rosen, a psychotherapist at Harlem United in New York, parallels the cold shoulder many gay men got during the early AIDS crisis, “where people are being told, ‘Oh maybe you shouldn’t come visit.’”For many gay and bisexual men, the sprawling and chaotic monkeypox outbreak has upended a summer that was supposed to be a well-earned opportunity — following the peak of the Covid crisis — to finally have some fun and revel with their gay brothers without the threat of viral infection hanging over them. Soon after Memorial Day, however, these men, as well ...
