I am preparing for a presentation tomorrow for World AIDS Days, December 1st, for Princeton’s student group the Student Global AIDS Campaign. It is affiliated with Princeton’s AIDS initiative. I’m talking about the adequacy of donor response to the epidemic. I’ll have more to post about my talk tomorrow, but I ran [...]
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I’ve had a couple of fairly interesting
conversations of late with an epidemiologist working for an NGO here
in the Boston area, and he’s got a bit of a hobby horse about the way
policy is being implemented.
In short, much of HIV prevention policy in Africa
focuses on the transmission aspects of the disease that are of
proportionately [...]
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PBS has a new special on global health airing November 1-3, 2005. It is called Rx for Survival and is narrated by Brad Pitt. Here is a description from the website.
During the twentieth century, the world lived through a golden era in public health: vaccines were discovered, diseases were cured, and the average [...]
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