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Storm Clouds and Silver Lining around US Funding for AIDS

7/17/12
Jenny Ottenhoff

Next week some 20,000 AIDS activists, practitioners and researchers from around the world will pour into Washington, DC to discuss new research and technologies at the International AIDS Conference (IAC). Meanwhile, fifteen blocks away on Capitol Hill, US policy makers will be grappling with policy issues that could have a significant impact on billions of dollars in global HIV/AIDS funding, of which the United States is by far the largest provider.

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Will the U.S. Lead on Global Health? Start with Vaccination

2/17/11
Amanda Glassman

USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah gave a speech yesterday at the National Institutes of Health, highlighting his aspirations for U.S. leadership on global health. By 2015, among other goals, he hopes that “the majority of all children have access to pentavalent, rota, pneumo and meningitis vaccines and that we have eradicated polio.”

Unlike some aspirational goals, this goal is actually feasible and affordable.

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