Over 1.6 million people in the poorest parts of the world are now on antiretroviral treatment to halt the advance of HIV, but in a rush to improve access, mistakes have been made.

Taxes and tariffs on medicines and medical devices need to be eliminated in order to bring down the cots of life-saving medications.

The United States has been reluctant to purchase and distribute genericAIDS treatments,and this caution has been vindicated.

Another World AIDS Day has arrived today and, although hard to believe, the situation across the globe is worse than before.

It is time the World Health Organizationlost all its AIDS funding until it demonstrates an ability to deal with the disease and not just play to the activist crowd.

US government foreign assistance health programs are currently focused on combating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, which account for several million deaths each year across Africa. The United States should prioritize sustaining the hard-won gains in disease control, which requires focusing on programs with proven track records of success and addressing failures within those programs.

Gordon Brown says he wants to write off all British debt to Africa. Perhaps, as a quid pro quo, he can get African nations to remove financial barriers that harm their poorest.

Asdrug companies wonder whether to continue researching AIDS drugs, the news that resistancewill build up because of fakeswill notconvince them to stay in the AIDS research field.