United Nations steeply lowers its AIDS estimates. Los Angeles Times. November 20, 2007. The United Nations on Monday radically lowered years of estimates of the number of people worldwide infected by the AIDS virus, revealing that the growth of the AIDS pandemic is waning for the first time since HIV was discovered 26 years ago. Read more

Analysis clarifies route of AIDS. Los Angeles Times. October 30, 2007. A genetic analysis of 25-year-old blood samples has outlined a new map of the AIDS virus' journey out of Africa, showing that today's most widespread subtype first emerged in Haiti in the 1960s and arrived in the United States a few years later. Read more

Groups seek U.S. probe of inmate's death. Los Angeles Times. August 29, 2007.  Human Rights Watch and ACLU also want to know what happened to witnesses to transgender detainee's treatment while in custody. Read more