HIV/AIDS & Infectious Diseases

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HIV Treatment in Rural South Africa Increases Employment among HIV-Negative Neighbors—Especially Women
December 02, 2019
This World AIDS Day, Mead Over and Julia Kaufman examine the positive spillover effects of treating HIV.
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Common Goods for Health: We Need Them. So How Do We Get Them?
September 30, 2019
With so many obstacles to providing these critical services, it is worth asking why countries produce Common Goods for Health at all? How do countries ever reach the point where they are willing to tax themselves to invest in services that are in the public interest? Services that are invisible...
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With Budget Cuts Looming Again, Can PEPFAR Keep the Gas on its Acceleration Strategy?
March 19, 2019
PEPFAR has long enjoyed bipartisan support on the Hill. Yet, it has not been spared from significant cuts in President Trump’s latest budget request for foreign aid. It is noteworthy that this administration’s three successive budget requests have proposed increasingly large cu...
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On World AIDS Day, a Moment for Celebration and Self-Reflection
December 03, 2018
On World AIDS Day, December 1, we honor the advocates that transformed HIV/AIDS from a death sentence to a chronic disease. These activists bequeathed a golden age of global health—a boom in money and programs that is sustained today, evidenced by the recent reauthorization of PEPFAR. But...
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PEPFAR’s New Targets for Local Implementation: Commendable in Theory, Complicated in Practice
August 09, 2018
In July, United States Global AIDS Coordinator Deborah Birx made a striking commitment: under her leadership, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) would direct at least 40 percent of its funding to host country governments or organizations by the end of 2019—rising to ...
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Getting Serious on Global Health Security
September 26, 2016
Zika’s rapid spread has focused media attention on how poorly prepared both rich and less rich countries are for infectious disease outbreaks. And while it seems that we are still flailing, in fact, the international community has been trying to do better for a while. Perhaps the most sign...
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One Lesson for Ebola from HIV: Donors Must Help Protect Health Workers
August 15, 2014
As the Ebola outbreak in West Africa persists, some parallels are being drawn between the virus and HIV/AIDS.