Can we treat our way out of the AIDS epidemic? On World AIDS Day we’re partnering up with The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health for a discussion about the “treatment as prevention” strategy for eradicating AIDS.
Why this photographer takes portraits of the dying
Nicholas Nixon has spent much of his career taking pictures of the dying, including a series of portraits of AIDS victims during the 1980s, when fear of the disease ran high and few people knew victims.
Here’s why Mandela came late to the AIDS crisis in his country
While AIDS was running rampant in South Africa, President Nelson Mandela did little about it. Then his son died of it. Mandela took up the cause, but not his successor.