New Public Health Report Underscores: Long Live the Condom New Public Health Report Underscores: Long Live the Condom
Injectable hormonal birth control can double a woman's risk of contracting HIV from her partner, even as it prevents pregnancy. Condoms are still the best way to prevent both ...
Oct 4, 2011 / Blog / Dana Goldstein
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 / Editorial / 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 / Editorial / Richard Kim