Ian Hodgson is an academic based in the UK, and during 2005 has been working with Health and Development Networks (HDN) in Thailand, as Programme Adviser. He has published a number of articles about HIV/Aids, especially around cultural perceptions of the virus, and international aid policy.

Recent articles

The campaign to curb the global pandemic also takes place within, says Ian Hodgson.

The rich north's hunger for the poor south's health workers is creating damaging inequalities in global care, says a World Health Organisation report. Ian Hodgson considers the options.

South Africa’s health and public policy towards people infected by HIV is surrounded by a political firestorm – with the German-born nutritionist Matthias Rath at its heart. Ian Hodgson explains.

The United States’s global HIV/Aids-related funding is increasingly motivated by religious dogma rather than poeople’s needs, says Ian Hodgson.