Left Field by Patricia Nell Warren Religious Extremists Offer a “Solution” for the World’s Ills, including HIV/AIDS. As I wrote this column, the last week of March, a conference was about to take place whose speakers numbered some of the most extremist U.S. religious activists. One might assume that it was sponsored by the Tea Party, or The Family, or some other way-out cult group. But no. The Social Transformation Conference was sponsored by Harvard University. It partnered with Harvard’s Extension Service and Leadership Society, [...]

Empowered by governments, religious ideology is shaping the aids industry in harmful ways. Left Field by Patricia Nell Warren Scanning headlines, I saw the CDC announcement that South Africa is now “a victim of its ARV treatment success.” This year S.A. hoped to treat eighty percent of its 1 million HIV-positive citizens. By 2024, the S.A. government says, it will need $4 billion for the purchase of cheap generic ARVs made available by PEPFAR and World Bank partnerships. But the extra $120 million promised by [...]