South Africa will likely face a number of challenges due to the effects of its AIDS-related excess mortality; the country needs programs that deliver a broader variety of services than are currently offered if it hopes to emerge as a prosperous regional power by midcentury.

We must begin to make our plans more broad-based to encompass the most threatening of pandemic scenarios.

Unchecked, HIV and AIDS will continue to spread through Islamic countries. No longer a matter of humanitarian assistance, the pandemicis nowan importantglobal security issue.

Leaders in Muslim countries who have denied AIDS must acknowledge the threat or risk losing their community of believers to a global plague.

The newest phase of the global AIDS pandemic is the unfolding of the contagion across the great Islamic expanse.

AEI and the Project 2049 Institute will cohost a conference examining US policy toward China, particularly American engagement of Chinese civil society.

Prospective college students lack basic information about college costs and quality--and how they vary across institutions--on which to base their investment decisions. This lack of information handicaps the ability of students to be the savvy consumers that a well-functioning market requires, freeing poor-performing institutions to operate at will.

AEI's Nicholas Eberstadt and Laura M. Kelley released a study on HIV/AIDS in the Muslim world detailing the scope of the epidemic and efforts to fight its spread.