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The Supreme Court has struck down a federal law forcing private health organizations to denounce prostitution as a condition to get AIDS funding. The justices said Thursday the law’s anti-prostitution pledge improperly restricts First Amendment rights. …

How does that work? When I think of an epidemic being "fueled," I think of what is causing the epidemic. In the case of AIDS, it is not caused by "stigma," "violence" unless that violence involves something physical that would pass on the HIV virus, or "indifference" unless a person chooses to be indifferent to the danger of the disease.John was speaking at a conference.  Science and money would not be enough to beat the epidemic, he said: "We need love. If that word makes you a bit uneasy – if you associate it with Disney and schmaltz, let's call...

IGNORE the fuss over the news last week — the United Nations’ AIDS-fighting agency admits to overestimating the global epidemic by six million people. That was a sampling error, an epidemiologist’s Dewey Defeats Truman. Look instead at the fact that glares out from the Orwellian but necessary revision of the figures for earlier years. There it is, starkly: AIDS has peaked. New infections reached a high point in the late 1990’s — by the best estimate, in 1998. There must have been such moments in the past — perhaps A.D. 543, when Constantinople realized it would survive the Plague of...

Now that the fuss and glamour of the great Canadian AIDS conference in Toronto is largely over, perhaps we can speak honestly about this terrible disease. First we have to be clear. We must fight against any preventable death and ease all suffering, irrespective of gender, race, age or sexuality. Sadly, the trend is the opposite. Governments are increasingly legalizing the killing of the elderly, the ill and the disabled. But when it comes to AIDS, it seems politicians and public figures cannot do enough, or at least be seen to be doing enough. Movie stars, rock singers, authors and...

The men behind the myth Pharma Salaries. The high cost of research Source: AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch Henry A. McKinnell Chairman and CEO Pfizer Inc. In 2004, Henry A. McKinnell raked in $28,925,241 in totalcompensation including stock option grants from Pfizer Inc.. And Henry A. McKinnell has another $15,096,811 in unexercised stock options from previous years. John C. Martin President and CEO Gilead Sciences In 2004, John C. Martin raked in $18,223,931 in total compensationincluding stock option grants from Gilead Sciences. From previous years' stock option grants, the Gilead Sciences executive cashed out $13,213,769 in stock option exercises. And John C....