HIV and AIDS

IUDs to Prevent HIV in Kenya?

IUDs to Prevent HIV in Kenya? IUDs to Prevent HIV in Kenya?

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 th...

May 6, 2011 / Anna Clark

The Vienna Declaration The Vienna Declaration

Drug users deserve the chance to prevent HIV, too.

Dec 10, 2010 / Judith Auerbach

Ten Things to Oppose the Anti-Gay Legislation in Uganda Ten Things to Oppose the Anti-Gay Legislation in Uganda

Although homosexuality is criminalized in 80 countries, the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009 is the most egregious attempt to sanction homophobia and threaten the human righ...

Feb 4, 2010 / Feature / The Nation

Obama Unshackles Global AIDS Work Obama Unshackles Global AIDS Work

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.

Sep 1, 2009 / Feature / Barbara Crossette

Inconvenient Truths Inconvenient Truths

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

Sep 18, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Steven Epstein

An African Solution An African Solution

Two new books on the AIDS epidemic in Africa suggest that the best treatment may be found in the continent's own social movements.

May 24, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Rice

Morality Gets a Massage Morality Gets a Massage

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.

May 10, 2007 / The Editors

A World Unmoored by War A World Unmoored by War

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...

Aug 25, 2006 / Feature / Stephen Lewis

The People Versus AIDS 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.

Jun 21, 2006 / Richard Kim

Is Fear the Best Way to Fight AIDS? 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 ...

Jan 6, 2006 / Kai Wright

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