Michael Specter

ANNALS OF MEDICINE about AIDS in India... Writer describes the social campaign of pharmaceuticals businessman Yusuf K. Hamied to bring AIDS drugs to the …

Epidemics are not a zero-sum game; you cannot ignore one to defend against another.

When public-health programs are successful, they are invisible, and what is invisible is almost always taken for granted. Nobody cheers when they remain untouched by a disease that they hardly knew existed. That makes it easy for shortsighted politicians to deny long-term realities. And that is what they almost always do. Members of Congress hardly made a peep in 2018, when the Trump Administration disbanded the White House’s National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and B…

An infectious-disease expert’s long crusade against some of humanity’s most virulent threats.

May 28, 2020 ... Michael Specter writes about the life and legacy of the AIDS activist Larry Kramer, who died this week.

The President’s refusal either to lead or to recognize the leadership of others has made it impossible to develop a national plan to combat the coronavirus.

To ignore any eventual approval made by the Food and Drug Administration is worse than dangerous.

For many of the world’s poorest children, the death and devastation have only begun.

The defiant group of AIDS activists was itself riven by discord. What can the movement’s legacy, of both ferocity and fragility, teach us?

It is very rare for the agency to ignore an overwhelmingly negative advisory recommendation.