This early television news broadcast about a strange form of cancer infecting homosexual men offers a fascinating insight into how the public came to understand AIDS, before it was even called as such.
UNAIDS just released a 30 year stock taking of the global fight against HIV/AIDS. The report, AIDS at 30: Nations at the Crossroads, is voluminous, but contains some interesting factual nuggets about recent progress against the disease.
Earlier this week, Gallup released the findings of a major global survey of 126 countries from 2007 to 2010, asking "do you approve or disapprove of the job performance of the leadership of the United Nations?" The results broke down along regional lines. Here's why.
The International Atomic Energy Agency just completed a fact finding mission into the Japanese nuclear crisis at the Fukushima plant--and one fact they find is that the Tsunami hazard was under-estimated.
At the rate it is going, Yemen may soon descend into a Somalia-like death spiral of violence. If you want to peer into the Yemen's future, all you need to do is glance across the Gulf of Aden.
Late last week, the Vatican hosted a major meeting on "The Centrality of Care for the Person in the Prevention and Treatment of Illnesses Caused by HIV/AIDS.” This was the first meeting of its kind since last fall when Pope Benedict commented that in some narrow circumstances, condoms might sometimes be morally acceptable.