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An AIDS-Free Generation: Dream or Future Reality?

Staff / Truthdig Jul 30, 2012 The International AIDS Conference is making dangerously impossible promises about putting an end to the epidemic; the London Olympics' opening ceremonies included a unique tribute to free, universal health care; meanwhile, British graffiti artist Banksy has proved he will not be erased. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

What Americans Don’t Get About Afghanistan

Staff / Truthdig Jul 29, 2012 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Ed Girardet has been reporting from Afghanistan for 30 years and he predicts things will fall apart. Also: new infections of HIV among young, gay black men up by 48 percent; one of the architects of financial deregulation wants a do-over; and sportswriter Mark Heisler goes out on a limb looking for answers. Dig deeper

What Americans Don’t Get About Afghanistan

Staff / Truthdig Jul 29, 2012 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Ed Girardet has been reporting from Afghanistan for 30 years and he predicts things will fall apart Also: new infections of HIV among young, gay black men up by 48 percent; one of the architects of financial deregulation wants a do-over; and sportswriter Mark Heisler goes out on a limb looking for answerscom/avbooth/category/truthdig_radio/" title="Truthdig Radio">Truthdig Radio: Ed Girardet has been reporting from Afghanistan for 30 years; new infections of HIV among young, gay black men up by 48 percent; a financial deregulation do-over, and Penn State. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush and His Open Heart

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Jul 27, 2012 This is a moment for all Americans to be proud of the single best thing George W. Bush did as president: launching an initiative to combat AIDS in Africa that has saved millions of lives. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

AIDS Conference Excludes Many of Those Most Affected

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 25, 2012 The International AIDS Conference returned to the United States this week after a 22-year hiatus, thanks in part to President Obama’s lifting of a 1987 ban on entry into the country by people with HIV or AIDS. But sex workers and drug users, two groups most affected by the epidemic, remain shut out. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Condom Crackdown Subverts HIV Prevention Efforts

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 19, 2012 Women who carry around condoms -- including sex workers who use them to protect themselves from HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases -- are being criminalized in cities across the United States, as police agencies view possession of prophylactics as evidence of prostitution. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Apparent Progress Made in Gene Treatment of HIV

Staff / Truthdig May 3, 2012 Researchers are encouraged by the results of a 16-year study of T cells that have been engineered to kill cells infected with HIV. The altered cells reproduce themselves successfully and have not led to the development of cancers, as previous attempts to tinker with T cells’ genetics have. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Not Only Slavery, but AIDS Too

By John Donnelly Apr 20, 2012 Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin suggest in their new book, "Tinderbox," that colonialists’ aggressive trade practices opened new travel routes in central Africa that helped spread a disease rooted in a dense forest to the world beyond. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Scientists Discover Immune Molecule to Lead AIDS Vaccine Trials

Staff / Truthdig Sep 20, 2011 AIDS vaccine developers said they are cautiously optimistic after a conference this week in Bangkok, where scientists reported molecular observations from the first-ever successful trial of an HIV vaccine on humans that could change the way future vaccines attack the retrovirus. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Computer Gamers Decipher Structure of AIDS Enzyme

Staff / Truthdig Sep 20, 2011 To the astonishment of scientists, online gamers deciphered the 3-D structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus in just three weeks, a feat that had evaded researchers for 10 years. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Circumcision Gadget Is Easier and Safer, but Does It Hurt?

Staff / Truthdig Aug 8, 2011 It has been shown that heterosexual men are significantly less likely to spread HIV when they are circumcised. Rwanda hopes to circumcise 2 million men across the spectrum of ages using a new device that promises to be cheaper, safer and easier than alternatives. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )