Health
How to Worsen Africa's Health Crisis
IPN Opinion article
Killing off drug patents will kill off innovation and patients.
What do AIDS activists want more money for?
IPN Opinion article
UNAIDS has inflated its HIV/AIDS figures for years and now claims the natural decline of AIDS as a victory (it started before UNAIDS was set up): Bill Clinton at the international AIDS conference in Vienna attacked the waste of money but this analyst says UNAIDS should just be shut down. In fact, AIDS is not even the top killer in Africa, let alone anywhere else.
Wrong Tax, Wrong Disease
IPN Opinion article
Officials and activists (and a slightly equivocal Bill Clinton) at the recent world AIDS conference in Vienna want a "Robin Hood" tax on financial transactions to fund HIV/AIDS relief. This well-published analyst explains why this is a bad and counter-productive idea.
The new boom in malaria
World Malaria Day, 25 April - The biggest threat is the rise of drug-resistant parasites due to fake and sub-standard medicines. As with other drugs before, this resistance is emerging all along the Mekong, from Cambodia to Myanmar, where the wonder-drug artemisinin is already failing: this threatens malaria victims everywhere.
Killing the malaria killer
IPN Opinion article
On World Malaria Day, activists and governments discuss many weapons against the disease except one of the most effective: DDT
