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June 21, 2006
The People Versus AIDS
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.
Richard Kim
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January 6, 2006
Is Fear the Best Way to Fight AIDS?
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?
Kai Wright
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December 2, 2005
AIDS Movement Seizes Control
Despite its controversy, World AIDS Day has demonstrated how vast and global the AIDS movement has gone. While the extent of AIDS advocacy was not as far-reaching then, in 1987 a burgeoning movement of health care practitioners and gay activists battled the FDA’s questionable policies on AIDS drugs experimentation, which included excluding women and i.v. users from drug trials.
Mark Gevisser
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September 26, 2005
Roberts’s Queer Reasoning on AIDS
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?
David W. Webber
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June 29, 2005
Avian Flu: A State of Unreadiness
America remains unprepared for a possible avian flu pandemic.
Mike Davis
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May 12, 2005
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December 2, 2004
The Bush AIDS Machine
Click here for info on Kaplan’s With God on Their Side: How Christian Fundamentalists Trampled Science, Policy, and Democracy in George W. Bush’s White House (New Press).
Esther Kaplan
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August 26, 2004
The Big Sleep
From its inception, the AIDS pandemic has generated extraordinary expressions of sadness and anger. The sadness is easy to understand.
Sheila M. Rothman
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July 29, 2004
Time’s Up
It’s been four years since the International AIDS Conference was first held in the developing world, in Durban, South Africa, and activists’ demand for universal treatment access was catapulted o
Esther Kaplan
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July 22, 2004
Time’s Up
Though Bush trumpets his commitment to the AIDS fight, the delegation he sent to Bangkok was rather anemic.
Esther Kaplan