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The Roman Catholic Church comes one step closer to loosening its prohibition on condom use.
By Page Rockwell
November 27, 2006
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Legal abortion celebrates a birthday in Britain. Plus: Legendary drummer Sandy West dies, Jessica Valenti on "Boobgate" and more.
By Page Rockwell
October 27, 2006
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Vancouver has halted a drug epidemic by helping street addicts shoot up in safety. Will U.S. cities -- and Bush's drug czar -- learn from the Canadians' success?
By Mark Follman
September 22, 2006
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Journalist Melissa Fay Greene talks about the enormity of the African AIDS crisis and why, as the mother of five, she decided to adopt four Ethiopian orphans.
By Curtis Sittenfeld
September 12, 2006
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Helping women protect themselves against AIDS, opinions from Ellen Goodman and Susan J. Douglas, and more.
By Page Rockwell
August 14, 2006
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Excommunicating women priests, reinstating transsexual soccer players, Bay Area residents sound off on gender difference, and more.
By Page Rockwell
August 11, 2006
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Expert says rise in obesity among South African women is due in part to fears of appearing to have HIV/AIDS.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
August 11, 2006
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Almost 30 years since publishing the groundbreaking novel "Dancer From the Dance," one of America's treasured gay writers offers a beautiful new work on love and loss.
By Laura Miller
July 29, 2006
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Microbicides let women protect themselves from getting infected by men who protest condoms, play around.
By Sarah Elizabeth Richards
May 8, 2006
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GAO report criticizes limits, ambiguities in congressional mandate for AIDS prevention abroad.
By Lynn Harris
April 5, 2006
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Roche says it will help poor countries make cheap drugs, no questions asked. Why?
By Andrew Leonard
January 20, 2006
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Brazil vs. the Drug Lords; a showdown at the IP corral
By Andrew Leonard
January 13, 2006
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Samuel Alito's Willy Loman facade conceals seething resentments -- and a dangerous belief in unbridled presidential power.
By Sidney Blumenthal
January 12, 2006
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Pharmaceutical companies are using free-trade deals like CAFTA to eliminate global competition -- and deny poor patients access to cheaper generic drugs.
By Adam Graham-Silverman
August 12, 2005
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Well-meaning activists like Bono have pressured the West into giving billions more to Africa. But is all that money doing more harm than good?
By Erich Wiedemann and Thilo Thielke
July 6, 2005
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If President Bush is serious about fighting African poverty, here are 10 things he should do.
By Suzanne Nossel
July 6, 2005
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President Bush claims he is leading the world in the fight against global AIDS. But he has been inexplicably stingy and slow to act -- and by placing religion over science, he's responsible for the loss of untold numbers of lives.
By Geraldine Sealey
June 2, 2005
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Seeking to soften his hard right image, George W. Bush speaks of the need to help the least among us. Is it all just talk?
By Tim Grieve
June 2, 2005
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Veteran AIDS activist and playwright Larry Kramer is still denouncing young gay men for spreading HIV through reckless sex and drug use. He needs to drop the angry-prophet pose and start talking to the people on the front lines.
By Richard Kim
May 7, 2005
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The Bush administration is considering imposing a gag rule on U.S.-funded groups that provide clean needles to addicts, despite their huge success in preventing the spread of HIV.
By Maia Szalavitz
March 24, 2005
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South Africa's progress in the fight against AIDS has been weak, despite government assurances to the contrary.
By Julia Scott
March 1, 2005
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Spurred by fears of a deadly new strain of HIV, the gay community is searching its soul over its dangerous new complacency about AIDS.
By Alysia Abbott
February 25, 2005
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Medical experts say the "super strain" of HIV found in a New York man is probably not so super after all.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
February 17, 2005
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New HIV tests give results in 20 minutes, and are attracting people who avoided being tested before. But is a Bourbon Street dive the best place to find out you're positive?
By Karin Halperin
October 18, 2004
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Bestselling author J.L. King is the new public face of a not-so-new phenomenon -- "straight" black men who secretly sleep with men. Is he a savior to black women worried about HIV -- or a self-promoter fanning fears of a bisexual black bogeyman?
By Whitney Joiner
August 16, 2004