Aid, dependence, and ideological warfare
Foreign aid has never been just about assistance — it enforces political, economic, and social control, keeping recipient countries in a cycle of dependency.
HIV/AIDS
People are the state
What would happen if people could transform state policy based on the principle of social justice? The AIDS struggle in South Africa has some lessons.
Two people ‘cured’ of HIV. But we don’t have a cure for HIV.
News of a potential cure for HIV shouldn't lead us to complacency. There are 37m people in the world with HIV, nearly half who can't access treatment.
The danger of Africans becoming more “like us”
Discussions of the "shifting disease burden" fail to recognize that in the West diabetes or heart disease are not “diseases of affluence,” but diseases of poverty.