Matthew Hanley

Matthew Hanley is the author of Affirming Love, Avoiding AIDS; What Africa Can Teach the West, recently published by the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia (USA). After earning his master’s degree in public health from Emory University in Atlanta in 2000, he worked for Catholic Relief Services until 2008, traveling extensively in Africa. He currently writes on matters of public health, ethics, and culture from California. He is a regular contributor to the online journal The Catholic Thing.

AIDS and medical ethics: a great betrayal

25 Sep 2012 |

tags: HIVAIDS, medical ethics, philosophy

The risk reduction ethic only aims to sanitise and thereby perpetuate hazardous behaviour.

The Gray Lady learns how to genuflect

16 Aug 2012 |

tags: 2012 elections, Catholic Church, New York Times

After years of bishop-bashing, the New York Times is now holding up America's Catholic bishops as experts in justice and compassion. It must be election time.

Autism, traffic, and unstudied vaccine components

10 Apr 2012 |

tags: abortion, autism, bioethics

Is the abortion/bio-tech industry implicated in the astounding rise in autism?

In the pink

4 Oct 2011 |

tags: breast cancer

Even the NFL supports Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But why is everyone ignoring some of the biggest risk factors?

You have dogmas, but I don’t

11 Aug 2010 |

tags: forum, relativism, truth

We all live by dogmas. The important thing is to recognise them and ensure that they lead to happiness and fulfilment, not destruction and misery.

The downside of risk reduction

22 Jan 2010 |

tags: harm reduction, human dignity, sti's

Containing the STD epidemic by harm reduction robs people of hope that they can change their lives.

Hope, change and AIDS

1 Dec 2009 |

tags: AIDS, harm minimization, risk reduction

World AIDS Day 2009 reminds us once again of the failure of risk reduction strategies

A realistic strategy for fighting African AIDS

29 Feb 2008 |

tags: Africa, AIDS, utilitarianism

Discussion of the African AIDS crisis is riddled with ideology. The evidence shows that utilitarian HIV prevention guidelines are failing.