Global vs. targetted HIV prevention: Building on sound ground

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

It is revelation's time for AIDS Inc. Two months ago Kevin de Cock, the epidemiologist heading the HIV-AIDS program with the World Health Organisation, briefly acknowledged, before recanting, that the threat of an heterosexual AIDS pandemic outside of Africa had disappeared and this month at the XVII International AIDS conference ...

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Fighting “common nonsense”

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

“A tiny group of Republican senators continues to block a vote on an important bill to increase American spending on AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis around the world” i.e. PEPFAR. Republicans opposing the re-authorisation of PEPFAR have done so on different grounds. A recurring argument being the cost of the President's ...

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