With roughly sixty percent of the world's estimated 6.7 billion people living in Asia, even a small percentage of infected people can make Asia the next flashpoint for the global AIDS epidemic.
Josh Ruxin | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
As health, sanitation and education improve in Rwanda, its citizens are increasingly interested in programs and businesses that build prosperity. Ambitiously, they wish to make their country a middle-income nation by 2020.
Scott Swenson | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is moving toward a cloture vote in the Senate, a vote that will determine whether the $50 bil...
Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
Our country is succumbing to "AIDS fatigue" as infection rates have stayed high. But complacency does not save lives; more commitment, funding and science-based policies will.
Dan Brown | Posted 03.27.2008 | Business
Sachs has many allies and supporters, including Al Gore, Kofi Annan, and Bono. Will the Democrat nominee embrace his humane and sensible proposals?
Josh Ruxin | Posted 11.27.2007 | Politics
The real question this World AIDS Day is not, "how did we miscount the infected by 6 million?" but rather, "how did we allow another 2.1 million to perish from a treatable disease?"
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.02.2007 | Media
"Hello, my name is Bono, and I'm a rock star" — so begins today's rather unusual video blog from NBC Nightly News. Bono dropped by 30 Rock to sp...
Allan Rosenfield and Josh Ruxin | Posted 10.26.2007 | Politics
Best known for the genocide that overwhelmed it 13 years ago, Rwanda may seem an unlikely source of leadership in population growth.
Matthew McAllister | Posted 10.14.2007 | Living
As a citizen of this country to have the obligation to tell the people representing you how to spend your money and what is important to you.
Clare Marnham | Posted 10.11.2007 | Living
Although we work primarily with wealthy individuals or corporations, you don't have to wait until you're a millionaire to make a donation that will have a significant impact on someone's life.
Angela Larkan | Posted 10.05.2007 | Living
I had watched them suffer under apartheid, I had watched them as apartheid fell, and I knew their hope for the future when Mandela was elected. Now this had come.
Lara Santoro | Posted 09.09.2007 | Living
Millions of people are dying unnecessarily of a disease that has a cure for no other reason than they are black and poor. I wrote Mercy so that people could see and begin to change things.
WASHINGTON — By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is "palling around...
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McCain lobbed attacks on Obama today as the markets were in freefall. Republican
Actor and activist Alec Baldwin appeared on "Real Time with Bill Maher" Friday night. At several points...
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I had an unusual seat for the...
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Two French scientists who discovered the AIDS virus and a German who defied convention...
Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 07.31.2008 | Living