An African Solution
Andrew Rice : Africa
Two new books on the AIDS epidemic in Africa suggest that the best treatment may be found in the continent's own social movements.

Andrew Rice : Africa
Two new books on the AIDS epidemic in Africa suggest that the best treatment may be found in the continent's own social movements.
The Editors : 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?
Mark Gevisser : Medicine/Drugs
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.
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.
Esther Kaplan : Medicine/Drugs
People with HIV describe a desperate scramble for lifesaving medications.
The hard lessons of Guantánamo have yet to be learned, while many of the old mistakes are being repeated.
Richard Kim : George W. Bush Administration
For Bush's words to translate into an effective AIDS plan, the Administration will have to reverse course on its policies.
The Coca-Cola Company could dramatically alter the course of HIV/AIDS in Africa.
At a UN special session on children, George W. Bush declared war against the condom as a weapon in the fight against AIDS.
Salih Booker & William Minter : Social & Economic Rights
The glacial pace of the global response to AIDS reflects an entrenched double standard characteristic of the apartheid system.


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