This is the time of year in Washington, DC that could be described as the storm before the calm. It is when agency heads appear before congressional committees and subcommittees to describe the impact of budget proposals on the goals they are charged with achieving. It also is a time Congress must move to confirm […]
Human rights responses not “mutually exclusive,” State Department says The question was: How would the decision to send increased United States military support to Uganda to track down human rights violator and warlord Joseph Kony affect the United States review of aid to the country where Parliament and President just approved their own human rights […]
But ribbon cuttings are under consideration . . . Four days after the President Yoweri Museveni signed Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law, USAID Uganda Mission Director Leslie Reed sent a memo to the contractors, nonprofit organizations and government agencies with which the mission works advising “that all external events, ribbon cuttings, workshops, launches and/or program […]
Sometimes, comparing two countries can tell you more about what you don’t know, than about what you do. Take one country, for example, where the average age of first sexual experience for young people is a little more than 16, fewer than 36 percent of young women used a condom during their last sex act, […]
More than 900 physicians, researchers, nurses and other health care workers from institutions, facilities and organizations tackling HIV around the world sent a letter to President Obama today expressing horror over anti-homosexuality laws recently passed in Uganda and Nigeria and urging the president to follow words condemning the laws with action. The new laws in […]
“Before there was PEPFAR or the Global Fund, Dr. Birx was leading the charge in changing this disease,” Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) said Thursday, as he introduced his constituent, and President Obama’s nominee to be the next United States global AIDS coordinator to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “I don’t think I’ve ever introduced a […]
HIV
Steeped in inequities that include formidable barriers to basic health services for multitudes of its most vulnerable, marginalized and neglected people, the country leading global HIV […]
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, […]