An Office of National AIDS Policy progress report obscures the state of the domestic U.S. HIV/AIDS response By Mark Harrington On World AIDS Day, December 1, 2013, the White House Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) issued a peppy and…
The CDC’s High-Impact Prevention strategy takes aim at the stubborn HIV incidence rate in the United States. The only problem: it doesn’t include an ambitious plan for those at risk for the virus By Jeremiah Johnson There is no shortage…
April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. —Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson By Tim Horn We’re being duped by our government agencies. We’re being hoodwinked by…
NEWS ON THE FIGHT TO END HIV/AIDS, VIRAL HEPATITIS, AND TUBERCULOSIS Spring 2014 The April Fools' Issue: April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. —Mark…
The science of discovery comes with ethical challenges in human clinical trials By Richard Jefferys Over the past several years, there has been a welcome invigoration of the research effort to cure HIV infection. The mainstream media has picked up…
By Tim Horn Though the number of new HIV infections in the United States is down from its peak in the 1980s, incidence has refused to budge below its decade-long average: roughly 50,000 American residents are infected with the virus…
ACT UP/NY demands Department of Health accountability at the epicenter of the U.S. epidemic and commits to reinvigorate the national prevention agenda By Jim Eigo and James Krellenstein, ACT UP/NY The authors, James Krellenstein (left) and Jim Eigo, at an…
A coalition of community groups push to end AIDS at the epicenter of the U.S. epidemic Beginning in January 2013, a coalition of New York HIV/AIDS leaders came together to begin a series of discussions to reenvision the state’s HIV/AIDS…
Getting more HIV-positive people linked to and retained in care requires innovation and research By Tim Horn Viral-load suppression remains the holy grail of HIV care. Its associations with AIDS-free survival and a profound reduction in transmission risk are well…
President Obama orders multiagency cooperation to achieve National HIV/AIDS Strategy goals, but without required funding commitment By Scott Morgan If the United States is to effectively move toward the 2015 goals outlined in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) through the…