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
