Archive: AIDS
Learning to Love the Female Condom
When it comes to creating condoms, the folks who make 'em for men have it easy. Male condoms are the essence of simplicity and require little in the way of engineering -- or imagination. By contrast, when the people at The Female Health Company in Chicago set out to make...
By Jennifer LaRue Huget | May 18, 2009; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (2)
How Not to Spread AIDS
Almost a quarter century ago I went to lunch with some friends from work. As we sat at a cafe table, the fellow next to me asked to taste my drink. I said sure and watched him sip from my straw. I didn't know what to do next. I knew...
By Jennifer LaRue Huget | March 16, 2009; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (14)
News from the AIDS Conference -- Frenk Heads to Harvard
The International AIDS Conference, which concluded in Mexico City Friday, is a farewell of sorts for Julio Frenk. Frenk, the former Minister of Health of Mexico, is heading to Cambridge, Mass. to become dean of the Harvard School of Public Health. As health secretary from 2000 to 2006, Frenk...
By Frances Stead Sellers | August 8, 2008; 07:30 PM ET | Comments (0)
News from the AIDS Conference -- Dying of TB
While much of the international AIDS community has focused on delivering life-saving antiretroviral drugs to people infected with HIV, it has overlooked another preventable killer: tuberculosis. Just 1 percent of the people living with HIV/AIDS have been screened for TB, according to data from the World Health Organization. The findings,...
By Frances Stead Sellers | August 8, 2008; 03:35 PM ET | Comments (16)
News from the AIDS Conference--Needle Exchange
Needle exchange may be a controversial topic in U.S. political circles, but among organizers and delegates at the international conference this week in Mexico City, it's a no-brainer. "When it comes to prevention in IV (intravenous) drug users, there is no complexity, said Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global...
By Frances Stead Sellers | August 7, 2008; 05:00 PM ET | Comments (0)
New From the AIDS Conference -- a Need for New Money
The man responsible for distributing much of the world's anti-AIDS money says he is seeking contributions from new players such as China and the Gulf states. About 76 percent of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria presently comes from G-8 countries, according to the fund's executive...
By Frances Stead Sellers | August 7, 2008; 12:59 PM ET | Comments (0)
News From the AIDS Conference
At least one person in the Bush administration agrees with Sen. Coburn--sort of. In a speech to conference delegates Tuesday, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Mark Dybul called for a freeze on confabs until participants can demonstrate they've accomplished the myriad goals spelled out already. "I propose a moratorium on any...
By Frances Stead Sellers | August 6, 2008; 05:00 PM ET | Comments (0)
News From the AIDS Conference
"Conference or Care?" That's the choice as Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) sees it, and he says the Bush administration has picked the International AIDS Conference over HIV prevention and treatment. In a release from Washington, Coburn castigated the administration for sending 100-plus officials to the conference in Mexico City...
By Frances Stead Sellers | August 6, 2008; 03:30 PM ET | Comments (1)
New From the AIDS Conference: Mexican Migrants
Mexican migrants to the United States appear to be at increased risk for HIV and more likely to carry the virus back to Mexico, according to research being released Tuesday at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. A survey of 458 Mexican workers in California found that men...
By Frances Stead Sellers | August 5, 2008; 11:45 AM ET | Comments (0)
News From the AIDS Conference: A California Pitch
The Post's Ceci Connolly is covering the 17th International AIDS Conference, which is taking place in Mexico City through August 8. She's going to be sending regular updates from the summit to The Checkup; I'll be posting them as they come. Here's her first note: Now that Congress has lifted...
By Jennifer LaRue Huget | August 4, 2008; 01:30 PM ET | Comments (0)
