AIDS

Dear Madonna,

We are truly grateful for the attention that you have brought to our country. Through your personal life and care for your son David, your fundraising, and now with your new documentary film, I Am Because We Are, which examines the AIDS crisis in Malawi and the effect...

Asked by Bill O'Reilly's last week how she feels when she hears people like Rev. Wright say the ugly things he does about America and seeing people stand up and cheer in response (including to the notion that HIV was created to kill off black people) Hillary Clinton answered that...

Let's look dispassionately, if we can, at exactly what this man is saying.

He says the U.S. military has killed millions of people in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and in this hemisphere since the end of World War II. Isn't that a verifiable fact? Were any of these peoples...

If you want to understand why Rev. Jeremiah Wright said the U.S. government invented AIDS, or what Barack Obama sought to accomplish in his Philadelphia speech on race, the best commentary is political scientist Marc Howard Ross's book Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict -- even if it never...

Question for you. I am an African-American female in my twenties. What would you guess is the leading cause of death for someone like me? A pretty morbid question I know, but one worth asking. When most of us think of someone dying young, we think of circumstances both unexpected...

Barack Obama's church-related quandary is just the latest example of American politicians' perilous dance with religion. In a presidential campaign infused like never before with the candidates' efforts to sell their religious beliefs as best-fitting an illusory mainstream, Obama hasn't quite pulled it off, although he is in a far...

Last week, leaders of the House and Senate forged an agreement with the White House to reauthorize the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) at the level of $50 billion over five years -- $20 billion more than the White House was originally seeking. This watershed announcement may signal...

The fight against AIDS got a healthy boost Wednesday when the House passed a big new bill out of committee -- increasing funding for AIDS, TB and malaria to $50 billion and beginning to fix a lot of what doesn't work in the Bush AIDS plan. If it makes its...

I read the Washington Post so you don't have to. Michael Gerson, former Bush speechwriter, today writes:

Proposals such as No Child Left Behind, the AIDS and malaria initiatives, and the addition of a prescription drug benefit to Medicare would simply not have come from a traditional conservative politician....

By Susan Blumenthal, M.D., Melissa Shive, Beth Louise Hoffman, and Yi-an Ko*

With its official theme of "leadership," the commemoration of World AIDS Day this year on December 1st coupled with recent attention to some of the presidential candidates' positions on this public health issue has shone a spotlight on...

I won't be voting for Mike Huckabee. Sure, he affable, humorous, a likeable guy. But he belongs to a party of criminals, war mongers and religious zealots, so I'm opting out. But many gays and lesbians will be angry at him for the resurgence of his 1992 comments about AIDS....