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Blog Post
September 23, 2015
You’ve probably already heard about the pharma outrage du jour. In short: start-up Turing Pharmaceuticals, led by combative ex-hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli, recently acquired Daraprim, a 60+ year-old drug to treat a parasitic infection called toxoplasmosis –...
Sep
29
2015
12:30—2:00 PM
September 22, 2015
The world recently reached a milestone in the fight against HIV/AIDS: 15 million people around the globe now have access to life-saving antiretroviral therapy (ART). In 2001, only 1 million people had such access. This has resulted in tremendous gains in population health and life expectancy for HIV...
WHITE HOUSE AND THE WORLD POLICY BRIEFS
July 20, 2015
Remarkable progress has been made in the global fight against HIV/AIDS. The number of people receiving treatment in low- and middle-income countries increased from 300,000 in 2003 to 13.7 million in 2015, including 7 million supported by the United States. These gains are primarily attributable to ...
July 15, 2015
In this series of briefs, Center for Global Development experts present concrete, practical policy proposals that will promote growth and reduce poverty abroad. Each can make a difference at virtually no incremental cost to US taxpayers. Together, they can help secure America’s preeminence as ...
Jun
4
2015
12:30—2:00 PM
May 26, 2015
Determining which health interventions represent good value for money and are therefore good investments is an ongoing challenge for policymakers. A common approach to making these decisions has involved the use of thresholds based on per capita GDP. Specifically, many countries follow the World Hea...
WORKING PAPERS
April 23, 2015
The South African government is currently discussing various alternative approaches to the further expansion of antiretroviral treatment (ART) in public-sector facilities. Alternatives under consideration include the criteria under which a patient would be eligible for free care, the level of covera...
Blog Post
April 17, 2015
On Monday, US Secretary of State John Kerry signed an agreement with the African Union to help establish the African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the African CDC will take on a role similar to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
Jan
13
2015
9:30—11:30 AM
January 05, 2015
The Center for Global Development is pleased to host a discussion on Liberia after Ebola, featuring Senator Jeff Flake and Liberian Minster of Public Works, Gyude Moore.
The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa continues to have an extraordinary human cost. But as the outbreak in Liberia appears ...