HIV/AIDS & Infectious Diseases

The January 12th earthquake in Haiti is the most lethal natural disaster of the past 20 years. On February 12th, the Associated Press reported that official Haitian government estimates of the dead had been revised upwards, now reaching 230,000 dead. Furthermore, the number could be much higher, sin...

Yesterday’s release from the White House of the FY2011 budget and a simultaneous release of a consultation draft of the Global Health Initiative (GHI) by the State Department signal a strong commitment and evolving action plan from the Obama administration for global health engagement in 2011 and b...

Since its release in December 2009, specific pieces of PEPFAR’s new strategy have triggered much discussion both in Washington, D.C. and abroad. In the spirit of sharing-while-doing, Ambassador Goosby spoke at a Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) event on Tuesday on “Confronting t...

This is a joint post with Christina Droggitis and David Wendt. The PEPFAR Strategy PEPFAR marked this year’s World AIDS Day (Dec 1st) with the launch of their new five-year strategy. According to the press release, this document provides a high level policy framework (not a road map or impleme...