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HIV prevention under threat because of “religious freedom”
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Court decisions apply religious freedom to limit more access to healthcare.
Paganism
Editorial: Where is the Life That I Recognize?
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TWH’s editor-in-chief, Manny Tejeda-Moreno, reflects on the lessons to be learned from the COVID-19 outbreak and our responses to it.
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Wiccan Priest Erik Walton is Riding to End AIDS
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“I’m doing this ride because I can,” Erik Walton
Twenty-six years ago, Erik Walton, an eclectic Wiccan living in San Diego, received the most dreaded diagnosis of the time; he was HIV positive. By 1996 his health had deteriorated to the point that he collapsed at work with viral pneumonia. Walton had lost a great deal of weight and his t-cells, a type of white blood cell that helps the body fight off infections, had dropped to fifty-five. He could barely walk, and his doctors didn’t hold out much hope. Then Walton decided to take his health into his own hands.