Jennifer Tipton, EGM Films AlterNet: World. August 7, 2009. "Miss HIV", an educational documentary, explores HIV/AIDS policies through the eyes of two HIV-positive women competing for prize.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. March 17, 2009. Yet another shining testament to the relevance of organized religion in modern life.
Whitney Welshimer, Akimbo. March 5, 2009. Male circumcision is not full-proof. And it gives many men an excuse to avoid condoms, which puts their female partners at more risk.
Gloria Reuben, RH Reality Check. February 7, 2009. HIV/AIDS has reached crisis levels among the Black population of the U.S. We cannot ignore the impact of racism and discrimination in this epidemic.
Attaturk, Firedoglake AlterNet: Health and Wellness. January 28, 2009. Hard to imagine why Obama didn't want to keep Mark Dybol around ... oh right, the whole hating on women and condoms stuff.
Max Blumenthal, The Daily Beast. January 8, 2009. Team Obama likes to cite Warren's work on AIDS in Africa to combat criticism about the controversial pastor. But how does burning condoms save lives?
Scott Foval, Huffington Post. December 29, 2008. This year, I am telling my story so that people know why HIV/AIDS research is crucial for the entire population.
Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check. December 17, 2008. Less than 4 percent of news is health-related. And shoddy reporting on sexual health may be doing more harm than good.
Kaytee Riek, RH Reality Check. December 1, 2008. Obama promises to leave behind ideology-driven debates over how to spend money, and instead put common sense and science first.
Todd Heywood, RH Reality Check. November 18, 2008. Doctors in Berlin are reporting that a man may have eliminated the virus from his body after a bone marrow transplant.
Bono, AlterNet. October 25, 2008. In a recent speech, the pop star makes an impassioned call for Americans to resist the urge to turn inward during our troubled times.
Todd Heywood, RH Reality Check. October 1, 2008. Worldwide, 33 million people are infected. One candidate has a formal plan to deal with this health crisis. The other doesn't.
Gbemisola Olujobi, Truthdig. July 24, 2008. The colonialist myth of the oversexed African has resurfaced as an explanation for Africa's high AIDS transmission rate.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 17, 2008. After a decade long fight the Senate takes us one step farther from legalized discrimination.
Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check. July 10, 2008. The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is tangled in ideological restrictions. Fixing the legislation would save millions more lives.
Daniel DiRito, The All Spin Zone AlterNet: Health and Wellness. June 11, 2008. Conservatives continue to inappropriately attach moral judgments to a medical issue.
Marcy Bloom, On The Issues Magazine. June 9, 2008. Women are vulnerable to HIV because of discrimination, violence and powerlessness. They need more than health care -- they need broad social change.
Carolina Austria, RH Reality Check. April 10, 2008. HIV prevention programs must be based on more expansive views of sexuality -- particularly when it comes to sex work.
Beth Fredrick, AlterNet. April 7, 2008. The President's AIDS policy may be well-intentioned, but it fails to provide comprehensive and compassionate care for the people who need it.
Alexander Sanger, Alexander Sanger - Beyond Choice. March 14, 2008. In the battle against HPV and HIV, are male circumcision and vaccinations the best weapons?
