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Good News on Global AIDS

Matthew Hanley

Good news on the global AIDS front. The UN announced at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna that the prevalence of AIDS has been waning in the hardest hit...

Reducing Risk, Increasing AIDS

Matthew Hanley

The predominant Western approach to preventing the spread of AIDS in Africa has failed. Though in theory the risk reduction strategies favored by Western governments and aid agencies”handing out...

Should Catholic Charities Settle for Harm Reduction?

Matthew Hanley

Sr. Maureen Joyce, CEO of Catholic Charities in Albany, New York, described its recent decision to implement a needle exchange program for HIV/AIDS prevention as mere “common sense””a perfect...