How to Stop AIDS Now

By Caiti Schroering, August 21, 2007

The '08 Stop AIDS Platform is something that we must all take heed of: our next President must do more to stop the HIV/AIDS crisis. This conviction is what impelled this group of 15 youth AIDS activists to attend the Take Back America Conference in Washington, D.C. earlier this summer and "birddog" Barack Obama and John Edwards.

Curing AIDS Policy of Greed and Dogma

By Yifat Susskind, November 30, 2006

When it comes to AIDS policy, the Global South doesn't need charity or lectures about abstinence. Generic drugs and respecting women's rights are the way to go.

3D Security

By Lisa Schirch and Aaron Kishbaugh, November 17, 2006

Foreign aid, civil military integration, military, AID, diplomacy, development, Defense Department, State Department, security

Shafting the Vets

By Conn Hallinan, November 9, 2006

Veterans of the Iraq War return home to face the “friendly fire” of an indifferent Pentagon and Veterans Administration.

China: A Troubled Dragon

By Conn Hallinan, May 11, 2006

China's growing economic power and global presence coincide with severe economic and social challenges at home.

African Women Confront Bushs AIDS Policy

By Yifat Susskind, December 2, 2005

AIDS information is absorbed through a mesh of stereotypes that make human misery seem like a natural condition of life in Africa.

Bush Administration Refuses Cuban Offer of Medical Assistance Following Katrina

By Stephen Zunes, October 19, 2005

Did arrogance cost lives?

GATS and Women

By Marceline White, October 11, 2005

Although the World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial failed to produce a new round of trade expansion, prior commitments made by countries in the Uruguay Round (which launched the WTO in 1994) meant that negotiations would continue in 2000 to liberalize both agricultural trade and trade in services.

AIDS and Developing Countries: Facilitating Access to Essential Medicines

By Robert Weissman, October 6, 2005

Compulsory licensing and parallel importing policies could help developing country governments make essential medicines more affordable to their citizens.

"Free Trade" and Medicines in the Americas

By Robert Weissman, October 6, 2005

The U.S. is pushing a negotiating agenda for the FTAA that would dramatically limit each country’s ability to undertake compulsory licensing, an important tool to promote generic competition.