As the Obama Administration takes PEPFAR into its next phase, one of the hottest new buzzwords has been “country ownership.” Dr. Eric Goosby, Obama’s Global AIDS Ambassador, and other staff at the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator have used this term repeatedly over the last year to describe their efforts to make PEPFAR a […]
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and an expert in epidemiology and outcomes research, took on two of the most contentious issues in the current debate about HIV treatment scale up: Can we afford it? And why shouldn’t we shift attention to other global health priorities, such as maternal […]
Thank you for following our live blog today. All the materials from today’s event will be archived in the online press room. (Update: The speakers’ PowerPoints are now available.) We have a few more video interviews to post later today, so stay tuned. We learned from our distinguished panelists that we are on the cusp […]
Fauci was asked by a reporter from Voice of America about the implications of reduced funding for the PEPfAR program on global health and whether it would lead to people being turned away from clinics and people dying. “There are no resources in the world right now that will treat every single person who needs […]
J. Peter Cegielski, Team Leader for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis at the CDC, International Research and Programs Branch, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (DTBE), likened the tuberculosis epidemic to the fable of the tortoise and the hare. “By the 1980s we thought that TB had been conquered. We fell asleep of the wheel….. While we stopped to take […]
National Public Radio correspondent Brenda Wilson asked the panel why the government could not provide substantial new funding for TB drugs and diagnostics. Referring to discussions at this week’s World Health Assembly meeting in Geneva, she said others have suggested that we have the tools we need to fight TB and the problem is inadequate resources to make […]
Wafaa El-Sadr, Director of the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP); Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, shared her own experience on scaling up HIV programs based on her work in Africa. She focused on the importance of integrating HIV treatment with other health interventions. […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci, a leading voice for understanding HIV and infectious diseases in the U.S. government for a quarter century, often draws a crowd when he speaks—because of his ability to concisely say what needs to be done. Today, he did just that. Speaking at a briefing on global HIV-TB issues sponsored by the Center […]
Welcome to our live blog just across from the U.S. Capitol, where more than 100 HIV and TB scientists, policymakers, and advocates have come together for a symposium titled “Changing Course: Stemming the Deadly Twin Epidemics of HIV and Tuberculosis.” Two back-to-back sessions—sponsored by the Center for Global Health Policy and the Global Health Council—will feature […]
HIV
Thirty years ago this week Congress passed the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act, named for the young man who stood up to stigma and […]
Tuberculosis
In the six weeks before South Africa responded its first diagnoses of COVID-19 with the start of physical distancing measures, more than 47,000 people on average […]
Research & Development
With 2018 data showing highest incidence acute flaccid myelitis since monitoring began, officials say awareness, recognition of rare life threatening condition will be crucial to early […]
Policy
By Karen Carvajal, M.D. Over the course of human history we have come a long way in our fight against the threat of infectious diseases and, […]