So it seems that Bush and company have decided that they are no longer forcing much of their AIDs money to go into abstinence only campaigns. Instead they now require ‘justification’ if less than 50% of money doesn’t go into abstinence or faithfulness campaigns, which may sound reasonable but it will depend in my view [...]
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One step forwards and two steps back
Posted in HIV, Public Health, Science on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nature and HIV pessimism
Posted in HIV, Public Health, Science on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This news article in Nature, entitled, HIV can ‘never be cured’ caught my interest pretty much immediately as it describes some interesting new research on the HIV virus and for its unusually pessimistic title. For one thing, it’s true that HIV is a very tricky virus to get rid of because it attacks the immune [...]
