While the immense accomplishments of the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the governments that have worked with them have seen drops in HIV incidence as high as 73 percent in southern Africa, the benefits of these successes are not shared equally . . .
UK to cut direct aid to South Africa – AIDS Alliance Response: While news that Britain plans to end direct aid to South Africa by 2015 was met with concern in opinion columns around the world, this piece from AIDS Alliance spells out why this will risk investments in the HIV response to date: the [...]
‘Cured of AIDS’? Not yet: This New York Times article by Donald McNeil captures the excitement spurring HIV cure research and the significance of recent developments, and spells out the ways that knowledge about how virus works continues to grow. It is more accessible than the research presentations that announced these advances, more comprehensive than [...]
If we want an AIDS-free generation, why are we cutting PEPFAR? The Obama administration’s budget request for fiscal year 2014, which includes a fourth consecutive cut to funding for the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief that would bring the program to its lowest funding level since 2007, raises questions, this piece by amfAR public [...]
Factors associated with mortality of HIV-positive clients receiving methadone maintenance treatment in China: Increasing daily methadone doses for Chinese injection drug users (IDUs) receiving methadone maintenance treatment reduces mortality in both HIV-infected and uninfected individuals, according to a study recently published in the Journal or Infectious Diseases. Enwu Liu and other researchers examined records of [...]
After filling our heads with numbers this week in the wake of the Obama administration’s release of its FY 14 budget request, we’ll keep it simple, with a picture that’s worth a thousand words, some recent pieces that remind us of what the fraction of a percent of the budget spent on global health can [...]
Deaths from AIDS were peaking in Zambia in 1998, when Robert Clay arrived there. The epidemic there had been recorded for more than a decade, but the antiretroviral treatment that was saving livesfor the last two years in affluent countries, remained unavailable to Zambians. The house where Clay lived was on the road to the [...]
A million dollar bounty for a better condom, a condemned campaign in Kenya, a banned effort in Boston, a Philippine law on hold, a call for safer sex in Papua New Guinea prisons, an Indonesian province’s approach, and a Malaysian condom maker’s plans for the future, are keeping condoms in headlines around the world. If you [...]
In the golden era of global health, prisons have long occupied a hidden parallel world, a big dirty secret, so to speak, where in cells so overcrowded that inmates sleep standing, diseases are inescapable, medical care and nutrition are far beyond reach, sanitation is nonexistent and justice is a dream. “Most people know little if [...]
We can heal: The title of this story compilation from 30 children grappling with tuberculosis in 30 countries, are the words of a girl in Colombia, who recovered from the disease but lost much of her hearing to the treatment. The stories and photos of children losing their health, youth, and lives to a preventable [...]
Research & DevelopmentWhat would people living with HIV do differently if they knew that they could be infected again, with a new strain, that
