Advocacy groups in Namibia have documented the stories of dozens of HIV-positive women who were sterilized against their will in public hospitals.
AP | BRADLEY S. KLAPPER | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
GENEVA — In its first study of women's health around the globe, the World Health Organization said Monday that the AIDS virus is the leading cau...
Posted 11.03.2009 | Impact
What would Emma Thompson, Desmond Tutu and Debbie Harry say to their 16-year-old selves if they had the chance? You can find out and help fund AIDS re...
Marcy Winograd | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
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.
AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Friday the U.S. will overturn a 22-year-old travel and immigration ban against people with HIV early ne...
Susan Smith Ellis | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
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 Huffington Post | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
Christina Turner was drugged and raped by two men in 2002. After taking anti-HIV drugs prescribed by her doctor as a preventative measure, Turner was ...
Nigel Barker | Posted 10.23.2009 | Impact
Every year, nearly 370,000 children worldwide are infected with HIV. The numbers are staggering -- but it doesn't have to be this way.
Lisa Guest | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living
Anyone can say anything. Anyone can come up with a line. With a gift bag gab of wisdom, knowledge and confidence, someone can really cover the world and be quite deceptive. There are those that do it. They make it bad for the rest.
Mark Olmsted | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
I learned to remind myself, every time that I felt tempted to internalize the societal stigma around HIV, that I contracted this disease in the search for human intimacy.
Mitchell Warren | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
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.
AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE and MICHAEL CASEY | Posted 09.24.2009 | World
BANGKOK — For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and ...
Johnathon Briggs | Posted 09.23.2009 | Chicago
50 percent of all those living with HIV currently lack needed medical care. The impact of health reform on efforts to control the epidemic could be profound.
Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 09.22.2009 | World
Active participation of civil society is critical for success, including participation from organizations representing sexual minorities and people living with HIV/AIDS.
The Los Angeles Times | Thomas H. Maugh II | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
After nearly two decades of futile searching for a vaccine against the AIDS virus, researchers are reporting the tantalizing discovery of antibodies t...
AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
URUMQI, China — Security forces patrolled the street corners of Urumqi while residents voiced anger Friday, a day after thousands marched to pro...
Reuters | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
AIDS is spreading faster among Canada's aboriginal people than in the general population, and a strong cultural stigma and links to rising drug use ma...
Thomas DeLorenzo | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
So to all of you in Washington, D.C., I ask this simple question. If you were left without the health care coverage that your positions bestow upon you, what would you do?
The New York Times | Roni Caryn Rabin | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
Public health officials are considering promoting routine circumcision for all baby boys born in the United States to reduce the spread of H.I.V., the...
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living
A study this summer reports 1 in 7 teenagers in the U.S. thinks he or she only has a 50-50 shot of making it past 35. What stands out are the consequences of low life-expectancy.
AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 09.02.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the ...
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | World
Botswana is an example of how to wisely administer a natural resource endowment.
Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
Lifting the 20-year ban on federal funding of needle exchange provides greater options for states and local jurisdictions that require new and effective tools to prevent the spread of HIV.
AMERICA blog | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
This really came out of nowhere. Yesterday, we had AIDS activists quite literally close down the US Capitol Rotunda to protest President Obama's reque...
The Huffington Post | Stephanie Harnett | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living
Terrell Jones can't be tired. It's midnight on a Saturday, but he must wipe the sleep out of his eyes because his night is just beginning. Jones is ...
Priti Patel | Posted 11.12.2009 | World