Nov 30 Is the World Any Closer to Ending AIDS? An Indian child walks past a mural painted on the side of a train Kolkata in West Bengal, India. India has the world's third largest population living with HIV/AIDS. Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/ AFP/ Getty Images. An AIDS-free generation? Sounds… Continue reading
Nov 30 Watch 'How to Survive a Plague' Remembers First AIDS Activists Ray Suarez speaks with David France, director of "How to Survive a Plague."… Continue watching
Nov 30 AIDS Posters Call on Public to Act By Online DA AIDS awareness posters were part of domestic and international public health campaigns to promote HIV testing, safe sex and better knowledge of the virus and disease. Here is a sample of the 6200 posters physician Edward Atwater collected that are… Continue reading
Nov 28 How Banana Fibers Keep Women Working in Developing Nations By Cat Wise Photo of Elizabeth Scharpf courtesy of Sustainable Health Enterprises. Harvard Business School and Kennedy School of Government graduate Elizabeth Scharpf, 35, appears confident with a warm smile. These attributes no doubt come in handy when Scharpf travels the… Continue reading
Nov 27 Watch Young People Make Up More Than a Quarter of New HIV Cases in the U.S. Young People Make Up More Than a Quarter of New HIV Cases in the U.S. Continue watching
Nov 23 Watch After Sandy, Poet Describes 'What It Means to Stand in the Rubble of Your Life' After Sandy, Poet Describes 'What It Means to Stand in the Rubble of Your Life'… Continue watching
Nov 23 Advocates Of Medical Marijuana Face Another Hurdle: Insurance Coverage Several varieties of marijuana buds are displayed for sale at a medical marijuana center in Denver. Photo by Rick Wilking/REUTERS. With the passage of a ballot initiative this month, Massachusetts became the latest state to allow the use of… Continue reading
Nov 21 Does turkey really make you tired? By Jason Kane 'Tis the season for giving thanks and sharing blame. The fiscal cliff, Bush-era tax cuts, the White House, the 47 Percent, Greece, Spain -- the accusations seem to be swirling everywhere this fall. So in the spirit of sharing guilt,… Continue reading
Nov 20 Watch White House Sets New Insurance Rules for Benefits Coverage The Obama administration released new rules outlining what insurers on federal- or state-run insurance exchanges must cover as essential health benefits. Ray Suarez talks to Health Affairs' Susan Dentzer about how states are reacting to further implementation of the Affordable… Continue watching
Nov 20 New Health Reform Rules Revealed by Obama Administration By Julie Appleby President Barack Obama's signature on the health care reform law at the White House in 2010. This story was written by Julie Appleby, Jay Hancock and Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health News. Long-awaited details on how insurers can… Continue reading