Each year on December 1st, the world recognizes the importance of AIDS with World AIDS Day and reminds us what we can do to prevent and treat this t...
What is described in a Financial Times article as Obama's "reserve" and Sarkozy's being "intuitive, impulsive and direct," represents not only a contrast, but also how the two have been influenced by different backgrounds.
When it comes to HIV prevention, Gug never really received much education on the subject. It's not because he doesn't want it. It's because as a gay...
In a season when gathering with family is a joyful tradition, reflect on the nearly 9 million families that lost a child under 5 this past year to preventable and treatable diseases.
News that Congress is on the verge of repealing federal strictures against needle exchange programs serves well, as a much-needed shot in the arm for humane, science-based drug addiction policies.
America's health system is failing its LGBT citizens. President Obama should establish a federal Office of LGBT Health to tackle the unique dangers that threaten this community.
Gay men and women cannot be legislated out of existence. The practical impact of a proposed anti-gay law will be to undermine Uganda's efforts to combat its HIV epidemic.
Boredom -- and drinking -- often led to unsafe sex with prostitutes at the truck stops along the highway. As a result, truck drivers have one of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS in Eastern Africa.
It would seem to be in Obama's interest to make good on the US's global AIDS promises: save a lot of lives, and keep some key allies happy.
As we piled into a reserved room at the tony Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Mr. Cannon, looking the part of his position of chairman at Teen Nick, came off as a humble and down- to- earth guy.
I met UNICEF's executive director Ann M. Veneman recently at Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden's World Childhood Foundation luncheon at the United Na...
I have been a friend of Friends Without A Border (FWAB), the international fundraising source of the Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC), for several y...
Even when parents make an effort to talk to their kids about sex, adolescents' sexual experience is often a step ahead of them. The disconnect has emotional consequences and serious health implications.
As the world recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, Rotary International - a humanitaria...
Posted by: Sarah Hager, December 3, 2009 at 2:33 AM "Last week during World AIDS Day, South Africa was in the news quite a bit. The executive directo...
Lying on an operating table, a young woman hasn't yet seen her newborn baby. It's not joy she's feeling, it's fear. A hemorrhage is quickly draining h...
The grim truth is that as the number of HIV infections rise, funding for HIV Prevention and AIDS services has remains flat, and has been decimated by careless government officials.
On Twitter, we are each other's witnesses, one tweet at a time. Chris MacDonald-Dennis gave new meaning to that Tuesday night when within two hours -- firing off about 100 tweets in succession, totaling some 2,100 words and chronicling the narrative and arc of his 40-year-old life, from his childhood as a biracial kid in working class Boston to dealing with being gay adult man in America -- he came out as HIV-positive on his Twitter stream.
It is time to admit that the gay community has a gigantic Pope problem. Under the leadership of Benedict XVI, the Vatican has become an implacable foe of basic rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
The film explores three separate histories. As Jones wrote me via e-mail, "We wanted to look at the subject of HIV/AIDS in the light of people living with it, rather than dying from it."
Like many of the two million other children worldwide living with HIV, Sachi, born September 10, 2007, contracted the virus from her birth mother, who was a sex worker in Mysore, India.
