Global Health Initiative

Hillary Clinton Is Right About HIV/AIDS: Time To Enact A Global Health Service Corps

Anand Reddi | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, AIDS-Free Generation, Pepfar, Obama Global Health Initiative, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Institute of Medicine, American Medical Association, Hillary Clinton, HIV/AIDS Africa, Global Health Service Corp, Global Health Initiative, Impact News

Some may argue that enacting the Global Health Service Corps, especially in the era of U.S. government austerity measures, is not prudent.

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Is USAID Being Set Up to Fail on the GHI?

Nandini Oomman | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Usaid, Global Health Initiative, Obama Global Health Initiative, u.s. Hiv, Obama USAID, Hillary Clinton Usaid, Obama, Usaid Policy, World News

By burdening USAID with eventual responsibility for the GHI's success but with no authority or leverage to make it happen, the QDDR has inadvertently placed USAID in an impossible situation.

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Ribbons Without Rights Don't Save Lives

Serra Sippel | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Women's Rights, Women, Family Planning, Pepfar, International-Family-Planning, Reproductive Rights, Center for Health and Gender Equity, Women's Health, Cervical Cancer, Maternal Health, Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon, Global Health Initiative, World News

When the U.S. government starts integrating sexual and reproductive health interventions, it cannot be piecemeal -- the full range of reproductive health matters must be addressed.

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Global Health Investments: A Payoff for the U.S.

Chris Collins | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Khai Hoan Tram, Global Health, Amfar, Pepfar, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Republican Debate, Chris Collins, The Foundation for AIDS Research, Global Health Initiative, U.S. Foreign Aid Romney, U.S. Foreign Aid, Romney Foreign Policy, Politics News

All of us can agree that we need to spend our tax dollars as wisely as possible, and with that in mind we must recognize how important our global health investments are, providing security and diplomatic advantages to the United States.

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Will PEPFAR HIV Funding Be Flatlined by Budget Battles?

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 11.29.2011

Is Obama neglecting worldwide human rights issues, as critics charge?

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The Global Health Initiative's Missing Piece In Nepal

Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Abortion, Global Health Initiative Nepal, Nepal Abortion, Global Health Initiative, Nepal, World News

By Hanna Ingber Win, GlobalPost LAMAHI, Nepal – United States President Barack Obama set up the Global Health Initiative to take a more c...

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Global Health Initiative's Missing Piece In Nepal

Global Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Women's Rights, Obama Administration, Nepal, Barack Obama, Global Health Initiative, World News

United States President Barack Obama set up the Global Health Initiative to take a more comprehensive approach to improving health care in developing ...

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AIDS Activism: Confusing Accountability With Personal Attacks

Anand Reddi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Politics News, Pepfar, Global Health, University of Colorado School of Medicine, The Global Fund, President Barack Obama, Obama Global Health Initiative, Maternal and Child Health, Global Health Initiative, Ezekiel Emanuel, Pepfar Funding, Anand Reddi, Maternal Health, World News, Impact News, Health News, Impact News

By not providing "new" money towards maternal and child health, President Obama had in de facto pitted HIV/AIDS against other global health objectives.

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Women Living With HIV: A Lesson in Resilience and Rights That US Congress, the World Cannot Ignore

Serra Sippel | Posted 06.17.2011

Read More: Family Planning, Hiv, Women HIV, HIV Prevention, International Women's Day 2011, International Women's Day Centennial, Contraception, International Women's Day, Maternal Health, Global Health Initiative, World News

How will we be remembered in another 100 years? Will this be the Congress that spent wisely and honored commitments, or did not pay the slightest bit of attention while women were senselessly dying around us?

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A Tale of Two U.S. Global Development Budgets

Sarah Jane Staats | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, President Obama, Federal Budget Deficit, FY2011 Budget, Budget, fy2012, Larry Nowels, Millenium Challenge Corporation, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Global Health Initiative, Todd Moss, Politics News

Adding to the usual budget chaos in Washington this time of year is not one, but two budgets. Yes, Congress is still trying to settle FY2011 funding levels.

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A Bipartisan Strategy for Sharpening U.S. Foreign Aid

Rich Tafel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Usaid, Foreign Aid, Ileana Ros Lehtinen, Millennium Development Goals, Global Climate Change, Obama Administration, New Congress, US Agency for International Development, Global Health Initiative, Politics News

Bring a butcher knife to U.S. foreign aid? Not a good idea. But sharpen it? Yes. Let's make it a double-edged sword and address America's economic health and security.

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Global AIDS Funding and China

Anand Reddi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Health, The Global Fund, HIV/AIDS, Obama Global Health Initiative, Global Health Initiative, World AIDS Day, Hiv/Aids China, World Aids Day 2010, Pepfar Funding, Global Fund Funding, Antiretroviral Drugs, Africa, Pepfar, Anand Reddi, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Millennium Development Goals, President Barack Obama, Malaria, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Mdg, Tuberculosis, President Hu Jintao, China, HIV Cure, World News

The Global Fund provides funds and support to the hardest-hit countries that lack the resources to address their epidemics. However, one of the largest recipients is the second largest economy in the world: China.

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When It Comes to HIV/AIDS, Do You Prefer Bush or Obama?

Dr. Paul Zeitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Pepfar, Global Health Initiative, Barack Obama, Global Fund, George W. Bush, Politics News

Is it possible that we soon will look back on the presidency of George W. Bush as the pinnacle of U.S. government efforts to eradicate global HIV/AIDS?

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Financing Global Health Aid and Protecting Wall Street: Enact a Financial Speculation Tax

Anand Reddi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Antiretroviral Drugs, Global Health, Doctors Without Borders, Africa, HIV Prevention, Lantos-Hyde Act, Anand Reddi, Maternal Health, Barack Obama, Currency Tax, HIV/AIDS, Pepfar, Financial Speculation Tax, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Partners in Health, Obama Global Health Initiative, Global Health Initiative, Maternal and Child Health, Medecins Sans Frontieres, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Politics News, Pete Stark, World News, Nelson Mandela, Business News, World News

A 0.005% financial speculation tax -- a "pinprick" for international banks -- would be an important stream of revenue for domestic and global development initiatives.

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Empowering the Voices of Women to Achieve the MDG's

Carol Peasley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Feed the Future, Cedpa, Women's Rights, Mdgs, Global Health Initiative, Women's Voices, World News

Investing in girls and women should also be a means of empowering them and putting them at the center of the development debate. They should be at the table when political leaders and donors define how new funds will be allocated.

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Are the Millennium Development Goals for Health on a Collision Course?

Dr. Julio Frenk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, G8 Muskoka Initiative, Global Health, The United Nations, Millennium Development Goals, Un General Assembly 2010, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Un, Global Health Initiative, UN General Assembly, World News

In developing countries, a woman dies from complications of pregnancy or childbirth every 90 seconds, a person is infected with AIDS every 12 seconds and a child dies every four seconds. The call to action is urgent.

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Truth and Reconciliation: President Obama's Global Health Initiative and HIV/AIDS -- Raising the Bar

Anand Reddi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV Prevention, HIV/AIDS, Lantos-Hyde Act, Ezekiel Emanuel, Tom Coburn, Pepfar, Maternal and Child Health, Antiretroviral Drugs, Partners in Health, Desmond Tutu, Medecins Sans Frontieres, International AIDS Conference 2010, Doctors Without Borders, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Obama Global Health Initiative, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, President George W. Bush, Bill Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, Global Health, Africa, Maternal Health, Politics, World Health Organization, Vienna Aids Conference, President Barack Obama, Global Health Initiative, Anand Reddi, New York Times, University of Colorado School of Medicine, World News

Eradication of HIV is possible if the world community remains fully committed to funding cost-effective antiretroviral treatment initiatives. Treating our way out is indeed possible.

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United States Global Health Policy: HIV/AIDS Treatment Funding At Risk Under President Obama

Anand Reddi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Global Health, International AIDS Conference, World Health Organization, Vienna Aids Conference, Pepfar, Ezekiel Emanuel, Maternal Health, Antiretroviral Drugs, HIV Prevention, Lantos-Hyde Act, Desmond Tutu, International AIDS Conference 2010, Doctors Without Borders, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Partners in Health, Obama Global Health Initiative, Maternal and Child Health, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, President George W. Bush, Bill Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, Politics, Africa, President Barack Obama, Global Health Initiative, Anand Reddi, University of Colorado School of Medicine, New York Times, World News

The diminishing commitment by the G8 towards HIV/AIDS treatment funding is a major topic at the Vienna AIDS conference. Sadly, the perception that HIV/AIDS is no longer an emergency is misinformed.

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Healthy Mothers Nurture Hope

Dr. Rajiv Shah | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maternal Health, Mother's Day, Usaid, World News, Global Health Initiative, World News

The Huffington Post's Living section joins Mothers Day Every Day, a joint campaign of the White Ribbon Alliance and CARE, in a daily countdown to Moth...

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The Power of Social Media to Save Lives

Veronique Pittman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tribeca Film Festival, Global Health Initiative, Usaid, Iwhc, World News

Thanks to Ushahidi, an open-source platform developed in Kenya, we now have the power at our fingertips to anonymously report violence against women, instances of human trafficking,

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Foreign Aid Reform: The Road Ahead

Carol Peasley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreign Aid, U.S. Agency for International Development, Sustainable Development, Foreign Aid Reform, Development, Global Health Initiative, Usaid, International, Foreign Policy, Home News

Over the past two years, experts on global development have come to a consensus that the current system for managing U.S. foreign aid is outdated, is ...

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Testing Overseas May Explain Big Drop In TB Cases

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Disease, Health, Cdc, Tb, TB Testing, Global Health, Tuberculosis, Center for Disease Control, Wellness, Global Health Initiative, Healthy Living News

ATLANTA — An unexpected big drop in new U.S. tuberculosis cases is probably because of stepped up screening and treatment of immigrants before t...

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Why Nutrition Matters

Joel Lamstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Feed the Future, Raj Shah, Global Health, Liberia, Child Nutrition, Global Health Initiative, Nutrition, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Usaid, International Development, Agriculture, Food Security, World News

Today's release of the Obama administration's Feed the Future implementation strategy will confirm what many in the global public health world have kn...

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The Future of AIDS: Reasons for Hope

Dr. Seth Berkley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV Vaccine, Barbara Lee, AIDS Vaccine, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Global Health Initiative, Iavi, Seth Berkley, Psd-7, Politics News

Recent moves by the Obama Administration coupled with important scientific advances provide reason to be hopeful about the quest for an AIDS vaccine this World AIDS Vaccine Day.

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The Other Health Care Debate

Chris Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Global Health, Pepfar, Budget, Global Fund, President Obama, Amfar, Global Health Initiative, The Foundation for AIDS Research, Politics News

If we aim to lead the world toward a more comprehensive approach to global health, we must be willing to fund it. The fiscal year 2011 budget should include increased investments in addressing the deadliest infectious diseases.

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