Today's children, even in the rural reaches of Haiti, are well versed in HIV prevention and the use of condoms. In a society of women relatively unafraid to assert themselves but plagued by unfaithful husbands, how useful is this education?
David Ernesto Munar | Posted 05.21.2012
The proposed Medicaid changes will be a signal this administration is retreating in the fight AIDS. For the thousands of people living with HIV/AIDS in Illinois who rely on Medicaid, let's hope Gov. Quinn reconsiders.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson | Posted 05.22.2012
It's been a big month in the fight against HIV and AIDS. On May 10, a panel of federal advisers gave a thumbs up to the first drug shown to prevent HI...
Anand Reddi | Posted 05.17.2012
The idea that differing global health initiatives must compete with each other lacks not only ethical legitimacy but also scientific merit.
Ambassador Eric Goosby, MD | Posted 05.12.2012
What is the greatest gift we can give a mother this Mother's Day? There are many answers, but one is a healthy life for her and her child. This Mother's Day, let's sharpen our resolve to ensure mothers everywhere have children who are born HIV-free.
John-Manuel Andriote | Posted 05.12.2012
When we claim the power of our heritage, behave like people who know our own resilience and strength because we have had to exercise it simply to survive, nothing in the world can pull us back down into anyone's crab bucket.
AP | MATTHEW PERRONE | Posted 05.08.2012
WASHINGTON — A pill that has long been used to treat HIV has moved one step closer to becoming the first drug approved to prevent healthy people...
John-Manuel Andriote | Posted 05.15.2012
Pornography is a major source of sexual information on the "mechanics" of sex, especially anal intercourse. Although it appears to negatively affect some young men's body image, porn also seems to play a role in setting behavioral expectations.
HuffingtonPost.com | Robin Wilkey | Posted 03.14.2012
SAN FRANCISCO -- On Wednesday, President Obama appointed San Francisco HIV prevention specialist Dr. Grant Colfax to direct the Office of National AID...
Ace Robinson | Posted 05.07.2012
Our hope is that the correct actions are taken so that in a few decades, we do not look back and wonder why the tools that we have today were not utilized. There is no viable excuse for knowing now what we already know and still not doing the right thing.
Lesley Girkins | Posted 04.23.2012
At the end of the night, everyone was more educated about the cause, and felt inspired to stay involved with the fight against pediatric AIDS. Involvement of this magnitude proves that this community cares.
Josephine Nabukenya | Posted 04.23.2012
My participation in the Dance Marathon at UCLA was life-changing. In a room full of American students my age, I was able to see that regardless of where we come from, we are all passionate about saving lives.
Eka Iakobishvili | Posted 04.10.2012
This is not the first time Russia has attempted to censor civil society voices for public health. At the UN General Assembly talk on HIV last March the Russian delegation tried to stop a Ukrainian drug user from speaking about HIV prevention.
Chris Collins | Posted 04.07.2012
Now is the time for governments rich and poor, donors, providers, researchers, and advocates to find new resources -- and make smarter use of them -- to begin to end the most deadly epidemic of our time.
Posted 01.24.2012
On Saturday, January 21, celebrity photographer, Mike Ruiz donated his time to take photos for Gay Men’s Health Crisis's (GMHC) HIV testing and prev...
Emily Dievendorf | Posted 03.04.2012
When I received word that Gov. Snyder signed the ban on health care coverage for domestic partners I choked. At this point, it is impossible not to recognize the terrible insults that the LGBT community faces in Michigan.
Posted 12.22.2011
More than 35,000 people have called for the resignation of the regional director of Detroit's Great Expressions Dental Care after a former employee cl...
The Huffington Post | Jocelyn Richard | Posted 12.20.2011
Canadian researchers received approval Tuesday from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin testing an experimental and potentially breakthroug...
Mitchell Warren | Posted 02.05.2012
Last Thursday, on World AIDS Day, President Obama threw the full weight of the U.S. government behind a vision that would have seemed outlandish until now: The end of the global AIDS epidemic.
Christine C. Quinn | Posted 01.31.2012
On World AIDS Day -- and truly every day -- it's important to remember that our most powerful weapon in the fight against HIV/AIDS is -- and has always been -- our voice. So talk to someone you love or care for today about HIV.
HuffingtonPost.com | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 12.01.2011
DETROIT -- Detroiters and community organizations will come together on Thursday for World AIDS Day Detroit, part of a global campaign for AIDS awaren...
Rehema Trimiew | Posted 11.30.2011
AIDS is still a global epidemic, however we have not given up hope that we can eradicate it. This year, the movement to end HIV/AIDS continues on Worl...
Janet Weinberg | Posted 01.23.2012
As we worry about how to protect our children, we seem to lose track of the fact that they grow up to be sexually engaged youth. For eight years, we did not offer any options except abstinence-only sex education in the public schools.
Neil G. Giuliano | Posted 01.09.2012
It's important that we examine our own combination prevention strategy, because what's effective in sub-Saharan Africa will not necessarily be effective in the U.S. There are four things we can do right now to create our own AIDS-free generation.
Sheila Nix | Posted 01.09.2012
There are those who will say these goals can't be achieved -- that we'll never see and end to AIDS. But we know that these goals are achievable. With the right political leadership we will, by 2015, see the beginning of the end of AIDS.
Susan Wile Schwarz | Posted 05.21.2012