Obama's SOTU: Jobs, Jobs, and …. Global Health?
Okay, so funding for PEPFAR and TB programs did not get top billing in tonight’s State of the Union address. With the economy still sputtering, with voters anxious about the next paycheck and angry...
View ArticleWhite House Budget Falls Short on Global HIV & TB
Although some details are still murky, a first-blush analysis of Obama Administration’s fiscal year 2011 budget doesn’t look good for US efforts to combat the HIV and tuberculosis epidemics. From...
View ArticleBlueprint for Global Health Initiative Raises Fresh Questions About Funding
The Obama Administration has finally lifted the curtain, if only for a preview, on its proposed $63 billion six-year Global Health Initiative (GHI), which the President first unveiled almost a year ago...
View ArticlePACHA's New Leadership Includes Domestic and Global HIV/AIDS Stars
Under new leadership appointed by the White House, the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) convened its first session yesterday under the Obama Administration. Health and Human Services...
View ArticleReactions to the New CSIS Report on "Smart Global Health Policy"
The Center for Strategic and International Studies yesterday unveiled a new “must-read” report for global health advocates, “Smart Global Health Policy.” While a panel at the Congressionally-chartered...
View ArticleFinal GHI To Be Unveiled Soon, Many Details Still Uncertain
At the start of a forum today on the Obama Administration’s Global Health Initiative, Jen Kates, the Kaiser Family Foundation’s director of global health policy and HIV, laid out eight major questions...
View ArticleRuth Messinger: "Sophie's Choice" in Global Health Spending is Outrageous
Ruth Messinger, president of American Jewish World Service, an international development and human rights organization, just posted this passionate response to The New York Times stories about the...
View ArticleTAC Founder Zackie Achmat Says "Forboding" Has Returned on Global AIDS
Zackie Achmat, the founder of South Africa’s venerable activist group, the Treatment Action Campaign, today made public a memo to the Obama Administration that details the potential negative...
View Article`Fresh' U.S. strategy on MDG goals
The Obama administration today released a government-wide strategy on a subject that previously had drawn little high-level attention from Washington – the Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs. Much...
View ArticleBlueprint: Dr. Myron Cohen on treatment as prevention and other essential...
Dr. Myron S. Cohen is the architect and principal investigator of the multinational HPTN 052 trial, which demonstrated that antiretroviral treatment prevents the sexual transmission of HIV-1. This work...
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