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Birth control is lifesaving medicine. Yet the myth that it is “controversial” persists.

An American nonprofit is offering HIV-positive Kenyan women $40 to use IUDs as long-term birth control—and women are taking them up on it. Is this the right way to prevent the transmission of HIV to children?

President Obama has lifted the twenty-year ban on federal funding of needle exchanges. But if he wants to promote public health--over politics--on substance abuse, there are plenty of other bold steps his administration should take.

"Mainstreaming" a focus on women into all of the United Nations' work never happened. So will an agency for women ever get off the ground?

Do brothel raids help trafficking victims escape abuse, or skirt the reality that makes recovery so difficult for the "rescued?"

Obama promised to reverse the most egregious aspects of Bush's faith-based policies. So why is he extending them?

The global economic crisis is showing how wishful was the notion that philanthropy could save the world.

Ten great groups that help people who are worse off than you are.

Rape destroyed the social fabric of Congo. Women are trying to repair it.

Elizabeth Pisani and Jonny Steinberg explore antipodal aspects of the fight against AIDS.