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.
Lauren Sisson, RH Reality Check. April 30, 2008. The freedom to practice safe sex remains elusive for many of the world's women. We must invest in making female condoms available and accessible.
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. March 26, 2008. Some of the most vocal critics of the minister's statements about HIV are also proponents of our dangerous, backwards international AIDS policy.
Alexander Sanger, Alexander Sanger - Beyond Choice. March 14, 2008. In the battle against HPV and HIV, are male circumcision and vaccinations the best weapons?
Manila Ryce, The Largest Minority AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. February 19, 2008. This not only violates the most basic rights of people living with HIV. It also threatens public health.
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.
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.
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.
