Patricia D Siplon Author

Raymond A. Smith is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and New York University. He is editor of the award-winning Encyclopedia of AIDS, general editor of the book series Political Participation in America, co-author of Gay and Lesbian Americans and Political Participation, and co-author of HIV Treatments and Mental Health. He has served as editor of the community-based HIV/AIDS magazine Body Positive, as a researcher at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, and as research director of the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors.

Patricia D. Siplon is Associate Professor of Political Science at Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont. She is the author of AIDS and the Policy Struggle in the United States. She has conducted research and done advocacy work on HIV/AIDS politics and policy in the United States and East Africa, most recently as a Fulbright Africa Regional Research Award recipient in Tanzania in 2005.