Alexandra (Alex) Ossola is a freelance science journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. She is a regular contributor to Vocativ and Tonic, often focusing on health and medicine. More broadly, she is interested in the intersections of humans and science, so it is not uncommon for her work to touch on environment, technology, politics, food, and law.
Governments around the world were slow to get to grips with HIV/AIDS. But a big change came when they started understanding it not just as a health issue but as a security threat too. Alexandra Ossola investigates.