Bleak stories behind failed condom campaigns

Chinwuba Iyizoba | 03 April 2009 | comment 34

Before blanketing the continent with condoms to stop AIDS, why don't you live in rural Africa for a while? 

Africa needs better media coverage

Martyn Drakard | 22 March 2009 | comment 9

The international media has a woeful ignorance of Africa. Why don't they listen to someone who knows? 

African AIDS: the facts that demolish the myths

Michael Cook | 22 March 2009 | comment 25

The mystery of why AIDS has been so devastating in Africa has been solved. And it’s not lack of condoms.

Who’s the real expert?

Jokin de Irala | 21 March 2009 | comment 6

Did any journalists ask an epidemiologist whether the Pope might be right about the ineffectiveness of condoms in fighting the African AIDS epidemic? We did. 

Same-sex attraction in adolescents

11 November 2008

Encouraging adolescents with same-sex attractions to identify as gay has no scientific or ethical justification.

A realistic strategy for fighting African AIDS

Matthew Hanley | 29 February 2008 | comment 39

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

Fighting AIDS by bolstering African families

Margaret Ogola | 26 August 2005 | comment 1

Strengthening the family is the answer to many of Africa's ailments, says Kenyan paediatrician, mother and award-winning novelist Margaret Ogola.

A quiet breakthrough in AIDS policy

Michael Cook | 03 December 2004

It was hard to miss World AIDS Day this week. If you weren't approached to buy a red ribbon on the sidewalk, the plight of AIDS sufferers around the globe leapt out of television screens and newspapers.

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