Jul 22 UNAIDS: AIDS Funding Faltering at Critical Moment By Talea Miller VIENNA, Austria | Global AIDS leaders continue to call for sustaining and increasing HIV/AIDS funding in the face of the global economic crisis at the International AIDS Conference this week. "For the first time we are seeing funding going down,"… Continue reading
Jul 20 Watch Study Reveals Potential Breakthrough for Reducing HIV Among Women A two-year study unveiled in Vienna found that HIV infections in females were cut by 39 percent by using a new vaginal gel. Margaret Warner speaks with Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases… Continue watching
Jul 19 Watch News Wrap: Bombings Kill 2 Troops in Afghanistan In other news Monday, roadside bombings in Afghanistan raised the U.S. death toll for June to 42. Meanwhile, security was tightened in Kabul on the eve of an international aid donors summit. Continue watching
Apr 01 Watch In Peru, ‘Elite’ AIDS Patients Boost Vaccine Research Efforts In the final report in his series about health issues in Peru, Ray Suarez reports on the country's war on AIDS through research on rare patients whose bodies can effectively suppress the virus. Continue watching
Jan 19 Watch Viewing Obama from his Ancestral Kenya One year into the Obama presidency, Tristan McConnell of the international news Web site Global Post looks at mixed feelings toward Barack Obama in Kenya, where his father was born. Continue watching
Dec 01 On World AIDS Day, Strategy for Future of PEPFAR Released By Talea Miller The State Department released its five-year global AIDS strategy Tuesday, emphasizing building countries' abilities to manage their own epidemics, but disappointing advocates by not including a budget or recommending a bolder treatment target. Continue reading
Nov 24 Watch Bill T. Jones Tackles History Through Contemporary Dance Jeffrey Brown profiles American artistic director, dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones. He has created more than 100 original works for his own company, in addition to countless others around the world. Continue watching
Nov 16 Weekly Poem: ‘Storm’ Kwame Dawes is director of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative and the University of South Carolina Arts Institute, where he also teaches as distinguished poet in residence. Continue reading
Oct 20 HIV Vaccine Tests Confirm ‘Modest’ Protection, More Research Needed PARIS | The complete results of the first vaccine trial to ever show some protection against HIV were released Tuesday, and researchers sought to refute criticism that the study's results could be weaker than indicated. Continue reading
Sep 24 Watch HIV Vaccine Shows Promise for First Time An AIDS vaccine tested in Thailand has shown signs of stopping HIV infection for the first time. Tim Clarke of ITN reports on the clinical research. Continue watching