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# health
Epidemiologists are thinking about trying to stop the spread of HIV with more HIV, but a strain engineered to be harmless to humans.
# health
Instead of helping Africans combat the spread of AIDS, the Catholic Church keeps pouring gasoline on the fire.
# sex
Despite decades of experiments and mountains of evidence, there are still activists who refuse to believe HIV causes AIDS. And they have blood on their hands.
# sex
A pair of studies shows that not only does abstinence not work, it makes things a lot worse.
# politics
AIDS is a terrible disease afflicting tens of millions of people. So why are some experts upset that fighting its spread is getting so much attention and funding?
# science
Evolution in action: an obscure mutation may render some humans immune to AIDS.