HIV/AIDS & Infectious Diseases

This is a joint posting with David Wendt The PEPFAR reauthorization bill, now signed by President Bush, is historic for several reasons. In our last blog we addressed the implicit entitlements to treatment confirmed by this bill. Today we discuss the role that unit cost measurement is manda...

This is a joint posting with David Wendt Does the new AIDS bill constitute recognition that AIDS treatment has become a de facto "entitlement"? If so, will AIDS continue to be exceptional in this respect -- or will Americans and the citizens of other relatively rich countries increasingly be willi...

*This is a joint post with Steve Rosenzweig After months of wrangling, the U.S. Senate last night finally passed legislation to reauthorize the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the U.S. global AIDS program that has been allocated nearly $19 billion over its first 5 years. ...