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Global HIV/AIDS Treatment Funding at Risk Under Mitt Romney

Anand Reddi | Posted 12.17.2011 | Politics
Read More: Pepfar Funding, Pepfar, Romney Global HIV/Aids Funding, Romney PEPFAR, Romney HIV Funding, Romney HIV/AIDS Funding, Politics News
Anand Reddi

As the tenor of the 2012 presidential election focuses on the economy and international affairs, many global health advocates are interested in Mitt Romney's commitment to funding U.S. global HIV/AIDS treatment initiatives.

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Zach Carter

Big Pharma Wins, AIDS Patients Lose In New Trade Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 12.05.2011 | Politics
Read More: Tpp, Trading Our Future, Pepfar, Economy, Hiv, Bill Daley, Obama, Aids Relief, Dylan Ratigan, Pharma, Video, William Daley, Ustr, Trans-Pacific, Nafta, Trade, Aids, Vietnam, Abbott Laboratories, Politics News

This piece is a continuation of The Huffington Post's collaboration on trade issues with The Dylan Ratigan Show, called Trading Our Future. WASHING...

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The Beginning of the End of AIDS?

Deborah Dugan | Posted 11.30.2011 | Impact
Read More: Every Woman Every Child, HIV/AIDS, Aids, Red Campaign, Maternal Health, Pepfar, AIDs Epidemic, Impact News
Deborah Dugan

Every generation is known for something. Will this be the one to deliver an AIDS Free Generation in 2015? It can be.

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Will PEPFAR HIV Funding Be Flatlined by Budget Battles?

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 11.29.2011 | Impact
Read More: Obama Care, Uganda, Africa, Pepfar, Homeland, George W. Bush, United Nations, Pepfar-Aids-Funding, Thabo Mbeki, Apartheid, Tb, Senator Richard Luger, Barack Obama, South Africa, Human Rights, Glaxosmithkline, Peter Mugyenyi, Global Health Initiative, Clean Water, Usaid, Kruger Park, Masoyi, Thomas Lantos, Impact News
Georgianne Nienaber

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

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Contagion -- the Stuff of Thrillers?

Kolleen Bouchane | Posted 11.15.2011 | Impact
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Pepfar, U.S. Congress, Budget, Disease, Global Fund, #Contagion, Malaria, President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, Tb, Tuberculosis, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Contagion, Impact News
Kolleen Bouchane

It all starts with a cough. A woman covers her mouth and then shakes hands with a man next to her on a plane. He infects 10 others. Everyone gets horr...

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Christina Wilkie

30 Years Late: Congress Creates Bipartisan HIV/AIDS Caucus

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 11.15.2011 | Politics
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Congress, Jim McDermott, Video, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Pepfar, George W. Bush, Aids, 112th Congress, Hiv, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The first ever bipartisan congressional HIV/AIDS caucus officially launched on Thursday, 30 years after the human immunodeficiency virus...

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Fighting AIDS: At the Tipping Point

Ambassador Eric Goosby, MD | Posted 11.14.2011 | World
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Aids, Circumcision, Pepfar, World News
Ambassador Eric Goosby, MD

Thirty years since the first case of AIDS was diagnosed in the U.S., the world finds itself at a tipping point in the fight against this deadly disease. For the first time, grounded in scientific evidence, our efforts can put us within reach of an AIDS-free generation.

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Makings AIDS History

Michel D. Kazatchkine | Posted 09.27.2011 | Impact
Read More: HIV Prevention, HIV/AIDS, Aids, Hiv Transmission, Pepfar, The Global Fund, Amfar, Impact News
Michel D. Kazatchkine

"Making AIDS history," this year's Capitol Hill conference organized by amfAR the Foundation for AIDS research, is of particular significance as the w...

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Opportunity Knocks Twice: New Tools Could Control the HIV Epidemic

Dr. Mark Dybul | Posted 09.02.2011 | Impact
Read More: HIV/AIDS, HIV Epidemic, Pepfar, World Health, Health, Impact News
Dr. Mark Dybul

The American people have led the fight against global HIV for nearly a decade. Africans will know who we are as a people and what we stand for if we continue to stand with them.

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A World Where No Child Is Born With HIV

Anu Gupta | Posted 08.13.2011 | Impact
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Johnson and Johnson, Pepfar, Children With Hiv, Aids, Unaids, Mothers2mothers, Pediatric Aids, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Video, Impact News
Anu Gupta

A baby is born with HIV every 90 seconds and half of all children with the virus die before age 2. This is simply unacceptable, especially when we have the knowledge and ability for every mother with HIV to have a healthy baby.

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30 Years Later, the Fight Against AIDS Continues Thanks to U.S. Leadership

Natasha F. Bilimoria | Posted 08.10.2011 | Impact
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Global Health, International Development, Pepfar, Global Fund, AIDS Vaccine, Aids, AIDs Epidemic, Impact News
Natasha F. Bilimoria

Let's build on the progress made in the past 30 years and achieve our shared end goal -- a world free of HIV/AIDS.

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Once Dead, Now Fully Alive: How Foreign Aid Is Making a Difference in Zambia

World Vision | Posted 05.29.2011 | World
Read More: Taxes, HIV/AIDS, Foreign Aid, Disaster Relief, Africa, Zambia, Pepfar, US Government, World News
World Vision

By Miyon Kautz, World Vision Zambia I have been paying taxes my entire adult life. But I never saw those tax dollars put to such good use until thre...

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AIDS Activism: Confusing Accountability With Personal Attacks

Anand Reddi | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
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
Anand Reddi

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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Global AIDS Watchdogs Worry U.S. Neglecting Its Leadership Role

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Global Health, World Health Organization, Pepfar, Obama Global Health Initiative, National AIDS Strategy, Africa, Aids, Malaria, Obama, HIV/AIDS Africa, Tuberculosis, Barack Obama, Vaccines, Politics News
Michelle Chen

Washington clearly has a stake in the battle against HIV/AIDS, but how do we reconcile that with the chilling fact that black men in the nation's capital experience rates of HIV that rival that of Sub-saharan Africa?

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Rwanda: Healing the Scars of Genocide

David Weiss | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Pepfar, Chf International, David Weiss, World Bank, Genocide, Usaid, Rwanda, Kigali, World News
David Weiss

As you pass through the country, it is hard to imagine that these same streets in this country the size of Hawaii were the scene of one of the worst human slaughters of the late 20th century.

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Obama's Report Card on World AIDS Day: 'C'

Dr. Paul Zeitz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Global Health, Pepfar, Global Fund, Obama Global Health Initiative, President Obama, World AIDS Day, HIV Cure, Politics News
Dr. Paul Zeitz

President Obama did take praiseworthy actions in the fight against HIV/AIDS in 2010. What is missing is the bold audacity with which President Obama has embraced other issues

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Obama Still Squandering Global AIDS Funding on Morality

Serra Sippel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Women's Rights, Abstinence Only, Pepfar, Women's Health, World AIDS Day, Home News
Serra Sippel

With 80 percent of HIV cases worldwide transmitted by sexual contact, promoting abstinence until marriage and marital fidelity would seem to make sens...

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Global AIDS Funding and China

Anand Reddi | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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
Anand Reddi

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

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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Why There is Much to Fear for Global Health this Halloween

Dr. Paul Zeitz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Global Health, Halloween, Pepfar, Politics News
Dr. Paul Zeitz

Be afraid. Very afraid. My fears are not so much the ghouls and goblins that will roam my neighborhood this weekend. I'm scared because I took a long ...

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

Anand Reddi | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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
Anand Reddi

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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HIV/AIDS Medicine Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle

Susan Smith Ellis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Pepfar, Prevention, Global Fund, Africa, (RED), Aids, Hiv, Clinton Foundation, Treatment, Un, Gates Foundation, Impact News
Susan Smith Ellis

We are, truly, at a turning point. It will take the collective power of governments, foundations, NGOs and the private sector to sustain the global effort to combat the AIDS epidemic.

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Bill Clinton Was Right About Wasted HIV/AIDS Funding

Sen. Tom Coburn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Aids, HIV/AIDS, Bill Clinton, Tom Coburn, Pepfar, Michael Weinstein, Politics News
Sen. Tom Coburn

A renewed commitment to saving lives has never been more critical. Despite the significant success of the United States bilateral relief efforts the global fight against AIDS is now at risk of failure. This is unacceptable.

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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 | World
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
Anand Reddi

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 | World
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
Anand Reddi

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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