Andrew Green

Locally funded needle exchange is officially returning to Washington. Dr. Shannon Hader, the District’s HIV/AIDS czar, yesterday named the four groups who will share $494,000 in funding. The majority of the funding is slated for PreventionWorks!, the only organization in D.C. that was doing needle exchange during a decade-long, federally imposed funding ban specifically targeting […]

There’s an unusual hero emerging from the morass that is contemporary Zimbabwe: Jacob Zuma. The president of South Africa’s African National Congress party, and presidential heir apparent, this week stepped up his criticism of the Zimbabwean government and President Robert Mugabe, calling for the release of results from last month’s presidential election. Zuma as hero […]

First Congress lifted the ban on needle-exchange funding in D.C. last December. Then yesterday brought news that lawmakers might lift a decades-old ban against HIV-positive people visiting or immigrating to the United States. What’s happening on the Hill? Are legislators ceding their bunker-mentality approach to domestic AIDS policy? As the Houston Chronicle reports, since 1987 […]

The most promising AIDS vaccine in the pipeline was a bust — and might actually have put participants in field tests at greater risk of becoming infected. Other trials of similar vaccines have also been called off, which raises an important question: is funding for AIDS vaccines a waste of money? It also raises the […]