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?
Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog. February 1, 2008. Even after six years of lawless brutality, the case of a Abdul Hamid al-Ghizzawi is almost too horrifying to believe.
GottaLaff, Cliff Schecter's Blog AlterNet: PEEK. December 11, 2007. GottaLaff: Maybe Huck will ask Bill Frist to be his running mate ... if he somehow wins the nomination after publicity like this.
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. December 8, 2007. Amanda Terkel: This Sunday on Fox News, Huckabee stood by his '92 statements and refused to recant them.
Greta Christina, Greta Christina's Blog. October 15, 2007. Those who think that vaccines and AIDS drugs are pharmaceutical hoaxes, don't remember the worst of the epidemics.
Pam Spaulding, AlterNet: PEEK. August 20, 2007. Pam Spaulding: During the peak of the AIDS epidemic, Griffin, a close friend of the Reagans, chose not to leverage his personal influence.
Jeff Fleischer, Women's eNews. June 26, 2007. Reported diagnoses of HIV-AIDS rose 17 percent among U.S. women from 2001 to 2005, and the virus is the the leading cause of death for African American women aged 25 to 34. Here's why and what we can do about it.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. May 21, 2007. Naina Dhingra: After studying Bush's AIDS relief policy, Advocates for Youth report that its incredibly insufficient.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. May 15, 2007. Tamar Adams: The Bush Administration promised billions for Africa to fight AIDS with a caveat, they had to promote abstinence with it.
Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. May 15, 2007. To get the billions in AIDS money promised by the U.S. countries like Uganda must indoctrinate its young people in abstinence-only rhetoric.
Dana Goldstein, In These Times. May 12, 2007. Should uncircumcised men in America heed clinical studies showing that adult male circumcision in Africa can decrease the likelihood of an HIV infection by as much as 60%?
Sarah Fort, Ms. Magazine. November 30, 2006. The President’s relief plan ignores the gender dimensions of the AIDS epidemic, and women are paying for it with their lives.
G. Pascal Zachary, AlterNet. October 24, 2006. Madonna's adoption debacle is about more than one Malawian baby. Celebrity stunts and corporate campaigns reveal that well-meaning Americans often have no idea how to help Africans.
