Inconvenient Truths
Steven Epstein : Non-Fiction
Elizabeth Pisani and Jonny Steinberg explore antipodal aspects of the fight against AIDS.
2008
2007
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An African Solution
Two new books on the AIDS epidemic in Africa suggest that the best treatment may be found in the continent's own social movements.
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Morality Gets a Massage
: Conservatives & The American Right
Randall Tobias isn't the first abstinence czar to run afoul of the moral agenda he promoted. It's time Congress stopped this dangerous crusade.
2006
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A World Unmoored by War
The United States now spends more in Iraq in a month that the entire world spends on fighting AIDS in a year. Have we reached the point where the terror of AIDS is no match for the war against terror?
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The People Versus AIDS
If the United Nations is to keep its promise to grant people with AIDS universal access to treatment by 2010, it will be because activists are holding world leaders accountable.
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Is Fear the Best Way to Fight AIDS?
Kai Wright : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism
Thanks to the fear tactics advocated by the Bush Administration and abetted by many health activists, gay and bisexual men have been engaged in a one-sided conversation about safe sex--all death and no life. Isn't a sex-positive approach more realistic?
2005
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AIDS Movement Seizes Control
Mark Gevisser : Medicine/Drugs
Despite its controversy, World AIDS Day has demonstrated how vast and global the AIDS movement has gone. While the extent of AIDS advocacy was not as far-reaching then, in 1987 a burgeoning movement of health care practitioners and gay activists battled the FDA's questionable policies on AIDS drugs experimentation, which included excluding women and i.v. users from drug trials.
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Roberts's Queer Reasoning on AIDS
David W. Webber : Supreme Court
When John G. Roberts Jr. counseled President Ronald Reagan on AIDS policies, did he willfully perpetuate the myth that AIDS can be spread by casual contact?
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Avian Flu: A State of Unreadiness
America remains unprepared for a possible avian flu pandemic.
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Just Say Não
Brazil turns down $40 million in defiance of Bush's AIDS policy.
2004
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The Bush AIDS Machine
Esther Kaplan : George W. Bush Administration
Bush did something Reagan never dreamed of: He made AIDS his own.
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Time's Up
Esther Kaplan : George W. Bush Administration
Though Bush trumpets his commitment to the AIDS fight, the delegation he sent to Bangkok was rather anemic.
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Bush's AIDS Hypocrisy Cons the NY Times
Doug Ireland : George W. Bush Administration
New anti-condom CDC regs give the lie to Bush's election-year rhetoric.
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Condemned to Death
Daniel Wolfe : Drug Policy/Drug War
Thanks to the US-led drug war, AIDS is exploding among injection drug users.
2003
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Dying for AIDS Drugs
Esther Kaplan : Medicine/Drugs
People with HIV describe a desperate scramble for lifesaving medications.
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The Legacy of Guantánamo
The hard lessons of Guantánamo have yet to be learned, while many of the old mistakes are being repeated.
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Bush and AIDS
Richard Kim : George W. Bush Administration
For Bush's words to translate into an effective AIDS plan, the Administration will have to reverse course on its policies.
2002
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Can Coke Prevent AIDS?
The Coca-Cola Company could dramatically alter the course of HIV/AIDS in Africa.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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