The gloomy headlines about the financial situation just keep coming.
Aids
How millions of older people in Africa have HIV/AIDS
Older adults’ access to HIV-related services and information in Africa is limited and data suggests they have low levels of condom use. It’s time to address this and the broader HIV/AIDS epidemic, writes Joel Negin.
Needle syringe program a better investment than the stock market
A new study has found that every dollar spent on needle and syringe programs saved the states and the Commonwealth four dollars, writes Dr Alex Wodak.
Sex with Hitler: just say no
A risque new German AIDS awareness campaign features graphic images — and footage — of Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein and Adolph Hitler mid-coitus, with the slogan “AIDS is a mass murderer”. Too far or necessarily shocking?
Robert Griew: from health to education
Yet another refugee from the state public service has found himself a senior position in Kevin Rudd’s Canberra bureaucracy.
Do condoms spread AIDS? Does the Pope spread genocide?
Pope Benedict XVI demonstrates that the Vatican is not only out of touch with reality, but has no respect for the sanctity of black lives and effectively endorses ethnic genocide by disease, writes Maxine Clarke.
Abstinence doesn’t make the Pope grow fonder
If abstinence doesn’t work for a privileged family like the Palins in the richest country in the world, how’s it going to pan out in Africa?, asks Jeff Sparrow.
Why HIV prevention must move beyond c-ndoms
For many people, particularly women who face the threat of HIV in developing countries, c-ndom use is not a viable option, write Bridget Haire and Professor John Kaldor.
Spoonerism donates pants, SBS gets legup
Crikey today received a press release from SBS about the man with the most fortuitous vowel in showbiz…
