Category: HIV, AIDS

Among the tragic side-effects of the 1994 Rwandan genocide is that so many children were left behind after witnessing the trauma of seeing many family …

This week, the United States began allowing HIV-positive individuals to enter the country for the first time in 22 years. This shameful policy prohibiting U.S. …

I am admittedly very late to seeing this post, but ReadWriteWeb posted an excellent list of bloggers and Twitter users discussing HIV/AIDS. (The post was …

I read the New York Times account of the president’s new AIDS plan, and all that came to mind were the images of people I …

During my travels in Kenya, I met a toddler named Mary Maishon who at one time had been a starved bundle of rags. She had …

On World AIDS Day, I typically take time to reflect on the people I have met who have been affected by this ongoing crisis. They …

My colleague Ruthann Richter has both a professional and personal connection with AIDS: she has been covering AIDS as a medical writer since the early …

Queen died today. That is the latest bit of distressing news I received from friends in Kenya. She was a quiet little girl whom I …

It was nearly a decade ago that I wrote a story about a protest by 5,000 scientists worldwide, including several at Stanford, against South Africa's …

Yesterday I attended a fundraiser in Palo Alto for the Rotary's Child AIDS Project, where some national leaders in the AIDS fight expressed skepticism about …

Researchers in the United States are hoping to build on the recently reported success of an experimental vaccine for the AIDS virus conducted in Thailand. …

I recall three years ago, at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto, hearing virologist Francoise Barre-Sinoussi of the Institut Pasteur in Paris question whether development …

Amid the furor over swine flu, a very important bit of health policy news seems to have been buried. President Obama just appointed a new …