Universal Healthcare and the 2008 Election
We need to get back to basics and take care of the needs of people living with HIV/AIDS right here in this country first.
We need to get back to basics and take care of the needs of people living with HIV/AIDS right here in this country first.
Marianne Schnall | Posted 08.12.2008 | Entertainment
In this exclusive interview from the International AIDS Conference, Annie Lennox talks about the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the status of women, her SING campaign, and staying sane in a world gone mad.
Rashad Robinson | Posted 08.12.2008 | Media
Things have changed quite a bit when it comes to media coverage of HIV and AIDS since 1985, but there's still a lack of representation in media coverage of the impact of HIV and AIDS on real people.
McClatchy | Federica Narancio | Posted 08.07.2008 | Living
Some 250,000 Americans are HIV positive but unaware of it, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released Thursday, and most...
AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
ATLANTA — The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health offic...
Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 07.31.2008 | Living
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.
Dave Zirin | Posted 07.30.2008 | Living
While Kermit Washington's punch may define an era, it is a cruel irony that it has so defined this hard worker, quality teammate, and dedicated humanitarian as well.
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.
Amy Coen | Posted 06.25.2008 | Living
Boge explained her biggest challenge decades earlier was to convince the first mother that her 'uncut' daughter would have a good life; she would be an acceptable wife, bear children and be healthy.
Reuters | Daniel Bases | Posted 06.11.2008 | Living
Researchers have been undercounting new cases of HIV infection in the United States, meaning the rate is probably 25 percent higher at 50,000 people p...
Amy Coen | Posted 06.06.2008 | Living
I've been in Mexico for almost a week. There's a growing behavior change challenge here: persuading Mexicans to change the way they eat and the way they have sex.
Julia Gorin | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics
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 st...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
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.
New York Times | Ron Nixon | Posted 02.06.2008 | Business
A year ago, staff members at the Treatment and Research AIDS Center could barely cope. Patients, unable to find care elsewhere, flowed in from every c...
James Wagoner | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics
Not a single amendment was offered in the House by pro-choice "champions" to bring a halt to the funding of programs that spread ignorance in the era of AIDS.
Joe Cutbirth | Posted 11.26.2007 | Media
Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS is losing $40,000 a day -- more than a quarter million dollars a week -- in voluntary contributions every day the strike continues.
Washington Post | Rob Stein | Posted 11.04.2007 | Home
In the decades since young gay men in the United States started dying from a mysterious syndrome in the 1980s, scientists have wondered how and when t...
Yvonne Fulbright and Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 10.26.2007 | Living
It's time to address the issue and teach people that anal sex is every bit as risky as oral and other forms of sex play.
Caroline Graham | Posted 10.21.2007 | Politics
Largely as a result of government negligence and the promotion of "alternative" remedies such as garlic and beetroot, there are now 5.5 million South Africans who are HIV positive.
AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 09.21.2007 | Business
A promising experimental vaccine to prevent the AIDS virus has failed in a crucial experiment, with volunteers becoming infected with HIV anyway, lead...
BBC | Posted 09.20.2007 | Entertainment
Pop star George Michael has asked for an interview in which he discusses his fears of having HIV to be removed from a BBC programme. The BBC has conf...
Thomas DeLorenzo | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics