For several years, the United States Agency for International Development has been under growing pressure to adopt a more long-term approach to its support of science and…

Even a seasoned political operator like Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair will have found it difficult to swallow the relative failure of this year’s Group of Eight (G8) summit…

More than six million children die each year in the developing world from diseases that could be prevented by simple interventions. While effective mechanisms for getting the…

Disappointing results of clinical trials for a promising pair of new Aids vaccines have highlighted the dilemmas faced by those determining strategy in this field. Recently, a…

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila has ratified an Act bringing the country’s truth and reconciliation commission into being. The Act comes within…

There was both bad and good news for delegates preparing for the International Aids Conference in Bangkok. The bad news took the form of yet another warning of the potential…