The New York Times commenting on a report by The Black AIDS Institute, writes on the extent of the HIV epidemic amongst African American in the USA.
The report financed in part by the Ford Foundation and the Elton John AIDS Foundation, ranked the virtual Black American country 16th in the world in the number of people living with the AIDS virus.
“Nearly 600,000 African-Americans are living with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, and up to 30,000 are becoming infected each year. When adjusted for age, their death rate is …

The Mayor of Pattaya (Thailand) has had enough of its bad reputation of “Sin City” and has embarked on (another) cleaning campaign to “eradicate the prolific gangs of teenagers who sell sexual services, amongst whom there is a high illegal drug usage” according to the Pattaya Daily News.
But Mayor Itthipol Khun-plue and Pol. Col. Nopadol Wongnom, Pattaya Superintendent failed to round-up any law-breakers in the 50 and more gay beer bars they raided. Indeed they failed to find any under 20 years-old that would happen to be an illegal sex …

Having asked who should get the dosh, it would be useful to look back at who got it so far. For many years, the fight against HIV and AIDS was not a cause attracting a lot of financial attention within developed countries. It is not until the 2000 international AIDS conference in Durban that the issue of “universal access” to treatment and prevention and the creation of the Gates Foundation and the Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Program (MAP) that investment started to flow from rich to poor countries.

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The XVII International AIDS Conference will run from 3 to 8 August 2008 in Mexico City and one can already hear the drums of war beating backstage. As a science editorial puts it, Money matters, and who is going to get it matters even more. Though evidence-based approaches should be favoured, this has not often been the case.
So who should get the dosh?
Children?
Over twenty-five years into the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic, the children in its path remain at grave risk. In 2007, it was estimated that 2.1 million …

The Lancet this week reports on a subject rarely discussed in the West and even less in the countries where it happens: homosexuality in Muslim countries, in this case Pakistan. Prohibited by law, socially censored, condemn by Islam but still a real part of everyday social and political life.
Pakistan like many other Muslim societies is in denial when it comes to men having sex with men. The consequences are dire when HIV/AIDS enters the boiling equation of social rejection, famillial ostracism and scape goating and particularly in a society where …