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 [...]

With the hubbub about new vaccine advances, why has our government ignored an older candidate? by Patricia Nell Warren As the global economic crisis deepens, a growing number of Americans are disturbed at how big government and big corporations can show a shocking callousness towards humanitarian need. The “bigs” spend a lot of money on advertising, trying to convince the public that they care about us…but in reality they are mostly concerned about protecting their parking places. Time and again, vital new technologies have been [...]