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CDC economic models show HIV treatment scale-up is cost-effective, can save money over time
New economic modeling shows that scaling up antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention in the developing world not only saves lives, but saves money too. Dr. John Blandford of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Center for Global Health and his team of colleagues have found that cost savings from averted negative [...]
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A renewed effort to end AIDS: “30 years and 30 million funerals”
President Obama made a bold announcement Thursday, World AIDS Day, to renew U.S. leadership in the fight against global AIDS – pledging to put 2 million more people on antiretroviral therapy (ART) through the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program by 2013.
Young investigators and Fogarty students presented select posters on global health at a special gallery during the 49th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) in Boston last month. The event was sponsored by the National Insitutes of Health Office of AIDS Research, the Accordia Global Health Foundation and the IDSA Education and Research Foundation. In this video interview, Sten Vermund, MD, PhD, director of the Institute for Global Health at Vanderbilt University, discusses one of the student “highlights” of the evening – Krutika Kuppalli, MD, from the University of California, San Diego – and her research on HIV and leptospirosis in Chenai, India.
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