Another Piece of Evidence in the Case for Earlier, Wider Access to ART
The case for earlier and wider initiation of antiretroviral therapy just keeps getting stronger. First, there’s the increasing solid consensus that initiating ART earlier significantly increases an HIV...
View ArticleDoing TB Diagnosis With Shopkeepers and Bicycles? Not a Sustainable Strategy
There were plenty of frightening statistics and unsettling trends highlighted at today’s World TB Day briefing on Capitol Hill. But one photo captured the true scope of the problem in scaling up...
View ArticleGroups to Global Fund, PEPFAR: Support switch from toxic treatment
Imagine a country that, while poor, serves as something of a model for getting treatment for HIV out to those who need it – addressing obstacles that can make the vision of full-scale coverage and...
View ArticleCatching up: TB talk show, Addictophobia, the gap between sex worker data and...
In the lull following AIDS 2012, Science Speaks is catching up on reading — and watching — pieces that came out in the days before and during the conference. Tuberculosis and HIV: Protecting the...
View ArticleA doctor’s path, directed by devastation, supported by science, takes him...
Dr. Charles Holmes was completing his medical education when he lived and worked for three months in Malawi in 1999. The AIDS epidemic there, uncontrolled, was peaking. Medicine had been saving AIDS...
View ArticleART for life looks promising for women of Malawi
Science Speaks is in Atlanta, Georgia this week and will be live-blogging from the 20th CROI — Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections from Sunday to Wednesday, covering breaking...
View ArticleHIV Self-Testing and ART Initiation at Home: Promising Results from Blantyre...
Science Speaks is in Atlanta, Georgia this week and will be live-blogging from the 20th CROI — Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections from Sunday to Wednesday, covering breaking...
View ArticleBuilding health capacity through service, a doctor’s vision becomes a...
This is what it looks like when the a country has no more than two or three doctors, and, at best half a dozen nurses, for every 100,000 patients: Sick people don’t come for care until they are very...
View ArticleStudy: In Malawi lifelong antiretroviral treatment for expectant moms...
One or two years ago, the idea was radical for low-resource settings: Provide antiretroviral treatment for life for all women who were pregnant and HIV positive, thus protecting the health not only of...
View ArticleLooking for lasting impact, first Peace Corps Global Health Service...
After a career as cardiologist and teacher, Stephen Humphrey had retired when he discovered first-hand the dire need for medical school instructors in a resource-poor country. A career as a registered...
View ArticleWhile unreached populations challenge HIV response successes, Malawi High...
When three stories from widely diverse sources address the same topic in the same week, they provide a glimpse of problems viewed from different angles, and perhaps a glimpse of progress. In this case,...
View ArticleDisabilities and HIV in Zambia, faith-based opportunities to provide bridges...
“We Are Also Dying of AIDS” – This report from Human Rights Watch on Barriers to HIV Services and Treatment for Persons with Disabilities in Zambia is dedicated to the late Winstone Zulu, the Zambian...
View ArticleMalawi advocacy network brings change to country’s healthcare system
When the Malawi Health Equity Network was formed in 2000, the health sector in that country was on the brink of collapse because of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Brain drain had caused a serious shortage of...
View ArticlePrograms to improve sex workers’ economic chances succeed and reduce health...
Categories: U.S. Policy and FundingTags: African Sex Worker Alliance, AIDS Fonds, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, EADWA, Global Network of Sex Work Projects, HOYMAS, Life Link Organisation, Malawi,...
View Article116th Congress: Meet the new Republican, two new Democrats on the House...
With oversight of funding for the State Department, and, with that, for the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and for USAID, the House Appropriations subcommittee on State and Foreign...
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