AIDS
Lobbyists at risk of UN AIDS syndrome
IPN Opinion article
Copenhagen should not produce a UN climate change agency - the history of UNAIDS shows why.
Drowning a single illness in cash will do more harm than good
IPN Opinion article
Donors are beginning to realise that spending disproportionate sums on AIDS is undermining overall primary healthcare.
A false threat of epidemics
IPN Opinion article
UNAIDS has at last admitted its world AIDS estimates were wildly inaccurate but it wanted yet more money at the biennial jamboree in Mexico (3-8 August). In an apparently unconnected development it is also looking for a new Director so this British health systems consultant has decided to throw his hat in the ring on a platform of closing down UNAIDS in order to allocate funds according to the real impact of diseases.
Death in the shade of world's attention
IPN Opinion article
Millions of cancer and cardiovascular deaths could be cheaply averted in poorer countries, but it seems sometimes that HIV/AIDS is the only thing on the radarscreen of politicians and journalists.
The 'right' to AIDS treatment?
IPN Opinion article
AIDS is a tragic disease, killing millions and impoverishing millions more. But should people living with HIV/AIDS have a "right" to treatment, as was claimed by many at this year's International AIDS Convention?
WHO's '3 by 5' not the answer
IPN Opinion article
ACTIVISTS at this week's world AIDS conference want us to believe that the United Nations' inefficient and expensive treatment programmes can defeat the AIDS pandemic in Africa. But the single-minded pursuit of these targets has taken the focus away from the only thing which really can defeat it: prevention.
AIDS: Fantasy figures and poor delivery
IPN Opinion article
When activists gather in Toronto for the 2006 AIDS summit to demand yet more money for the UN goal of treating 10 million sufferers, no-one will be admitting this figure is an educated guess, at best. This simple but avoided truth has massive implications for the way we fight the disease.
How to Help India's AIDS Victims
IPN Opinion article
Julian Morris argues that patents cannot be the barrier to accessing AIDS medicines in India, since India does not recognise patent protection and has the largest generics industry in the world. The problem, he says, is the economic mis-governance that keeps Indians in poverty and the hopeless inadequacy of India's healthcare systems.
