We must work together to ensure that the primary test of governance is, first and foremost, the best interests of children. What better standard could there be?
The selection of Dr. Rajiv Shah to lead USAID is a tremendous choice that underscores the Obama Administration's commitment to the vital role development plays in foreign policy and to the rebuilding of this vital agency.
We must continue our efforts to fight the HIV virus. But we must also continue to fight the equally dangerous, infectious, and deadly epidemic of apathy.
Several weeks ago Brian Williams profiled the children of the Afghan Child Education and Care Organization (AFCECO) and its founder Andeisha Farid in ...
Advocacy groups in Namibia have documented the stories of dozens of HIV-positive women who were sterilized against their will in public hospitals.
The stories and medical realities in some poor African Hospitals today are not so different from my first experiences in the Pediatric AIDS clinics at New York Hospital and Bellevue Hospital in the late 1980s.
Helping other people reach for a brighter day helped me not just survive, but soar, after staggering Ponzi losses.
Battling global warming, the economic crisis, food and energy shortages, and AIDS and malaria requires co-partners, not post-colonial relationships.
In Congress, I will work to support affordable prices on biologics, so that victims of cancer, HIV, diabetes, Parkinsons, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis can afford the medicine they need to stay alive.
Today, many people still do not have regular access to an effective method of HIV prevention. To ensure universal access to prevention, we need not only more HIV prevention, but new and better types of prevention.
It can cost as little as 40 cents a day to provide ARV treatment to an individual in Africa and just $26 to provide the medicine to help prevent the transmission of HIV from a mother to her child.
The Gateses are visiting our nation's capital to reframe the conversation about global health aid. They said we should spend more time talking about what works and how to measure it.
South Carolina, like a number of states in the Southeastern region, is being devastated by a silent enemy that hasn't attracted a lot of media attention lately: HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Every year, nearly 370,000 children worldwide are infected with HIV. The numbers are staggering -- but it doesn't have to be this way.
Friday arrived far too soon but featured some wonderfully creative creations and the Dare to Wear Love show wrapped up the week with a blowout show that proved fashion and philanthropy are just as beautiful, glamorous and meaningful as ever.
Successful journalists know the power of telling a human story with each piece. A narrative of an individual or group of people makes readers re...
Thank you, Mr. President for taking this bold stand. Hopefully, love will win out and your message of civility for all will resound across the land.
Where are the GLBT prophets who call us all to account? If it is true that denying marriage to gays is a moral deficiency, why haven't gay leaders framed it that way?
One in every 20 adults in DC is infected with HIV. A national strategic HIV/AIDs plan is one of Obama's priorities, but it isn't working. It's obviously time for a reassessment, Mr. President.
Lost in the inflammatory rhetoric is what our government and its dedicated public servants accomplish every day -- the delivery of vital services to deal with seemingly intractable problems.
Before embarking on the necessary process of questioning and debating the results of a recent HIV prevention trial, the world should take a moment to celebrate an historic finding.
