Barbara Crossette : Barack Obama Administration
With the change in Pepfar guidelines, the Obama administration opens new opportunities to link AIDS work and family planning and strengthen health systems in developing countries.
Elizabeth Pisani and Jonny Steinberg explore antipodal aspects of the fight against AIDS.
Two new books on the AIDS epidemic in Africa suggest that the best treatment may be found in the continent's own social movements.
: Conservatives & The American Right
Randall Tobias isn't the first abstinence czar to run afoul of the moral agenda he promoted. It's time Congress stopped this dangerous crusade.
The United States now spends more in Iraq in a month that the entire world spends on fighting AIDS in a year. Have we reached the point where the terror of AIDS is no match for the war against terror?
If the United Nations is to keep its promise to grant people with AIDS universal
access to treatment by 2010, it will be because activists are holding
world leaders accountable.
Kai Wright : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism
Thanks to the fear tactics advocated by the Bush Administration and abetted by many health activists, gay and bisexual men have been engaged in a one-sided conversation about safe sex--all death and no life. Isn't a sex-positive approach more realistic?
David W. Webber : Supreme Court
When John G. Roberts Jr. counseled President Ronald Reagan on AIDS policies, did he willfully perpetuate the myth that AIDS can be spread by casual contact?
America remains unprepared for a possible avian flu
pandemic.
Brazil turns down $40 million in defiance of Bush's AIDS policy.
Esther Kaplan : George W. Bush Administration
Bush did something Reagan never dreamed of: He made AIDS his own.
Esther Kaplan : George W. Bush Administration
Though Bush trumpets his commitment to the AIDS fight, the delegation he sent to Bangkok was rather anemic.
Doug Ireland : George W. Bush Administration
New anti-condom CDC regs give the lie to Bush's election-year rhetoric.
Daniel Wolfe : Drug Policy/Drug War
Thanks to the US-led drug war, AIDS is exploding among injection drug users.
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