EDWARDS ON AIDS.

EDWARDS ON AIDS. Proving once again that there's no grassroots progressive interest group John Edwards can't woo, he became today the first presidential candidate to respond to 100 HIV/AIDS advocacy organizations who have sounded "A Call to Action" for a "National AIDS Strategy." His proposal is here, and although parts of it are, of course, a repackaging of his universal health care plan, he hits all the right notes: Strengthening research efforts; focusing on the race, class, and gender disparities that affect who's infected; bringing drug costs down in the developing world; and focusing on women's rights and education as powerful antidotes. --Dana Goldstein