I stopped by recently to get a peek at Stanford’s new Positive Care Clinic (.pdf) in Atherton, which is getting some attention these days because …
Category: HIV, AIDS
Stanford study shows lack of support, services for rural HIV women in California
A Stanford study sheds light on the problems facing rural women in California with HIV. The research is among the first to examine the lives …
Researcher offers a look at HIV in India
The International AIDS Conference in Vienna wraps up tomorrow. My colleague Ruthann Richter has written about numerous developments there (her updates can be found in …
International AIDS Conference – Day 4
There's a mantra in the AIDS world: Treatment is prevention. This isn't a new idea, but it's gaining a lot more traction, particularly in light …
International AIDS Conference – Day 3
The hottest news yet out of the International AIDS Conference was the announcement of the first vaginal gel that can protect women against HIV during …
International AIDS Conference – More from Day 2
A weary-looking Bill Clinton took the main stage today at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna - the same spot where some 50 demonstrators the …
International AIDS Conference – Day 2
Bill Gates is admittedly an optimist. At the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, which has been filled with gloom about funding shortages for desperately needed …
International AIDS Conference – Day 1
I descended into Vienna early this morning into the mass chaos that is the International AIDS Conference. There is often drama at this enormous conference …
Africa's orphaned elderly – a serious side-effect of AIDS
While in Africa, I spent time with children who had lost parents to AIDS, many of whom were living with aging grannies. The grannies were, …
Expert answers questions on herpes, the "largest epidemic no one wants to talk about"
One out of six Americans is estimated to have genital herpes, a condition that can produce painful blisters and make a person more susceptible to …
Africa and the pill
I recently gave a talk to a distinguished group at the Fellowship Forum in Palo Alto, where I was asked about contraception use in Africa. …
Global campaign aims to stop mom-to-baby HIV spread
AIDS war in Africa is failing
For the last several months, stories have been trickling out of Africa of people dying as AIDS clinics fall short of drugs. Now comes a …
South Africa's ambitious plan to tackle HIV/AIDS
For more than a decade, hundreds of thousands of South Africans languished and died in the shadow of AIDS as the country’s president, Thabo Mbeki, …
Bill Gates on a low-tech, high-value initiative to reduce AIDS in Africa
Bill Gates writes about a low-tech, low-cost initiative to reduce the transmission of HIV in South Africa: After that, I travelled 590 kilometers northwest of …
Circumcising newborns to prevent HIV
Circumcision as a way to prevent HIV emerged as a hot topic in 2007, when the first large-scale studies from Africa showed it could reduce …