Posted on November 22nd, 2006 by Ben
For any readers in the Bay Area, the Peace Corps invites you to:
“Stories from the Heart of a Pandemic”
A panel in recognition of World AIDS Day
Wednesday, November 29, 6:30 to 8 p.m.
World Affairs Council Auditorium
312 Sutter Street, Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108 [map]
In recognition of World AIDS Day, a panel of former Peace Corps volunteers [...]
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Posted on May 8th, 2006 by joshbusby
This past Friday, May 5th, a number of us academic-y types met a Princeton to discuss the “Politics and Policy of HIV/AIDS.” This day-long event was meant to bring those of us political scientists who write on HIV/AIDS together to discuss common challenges for studying this topic and to look for synergies in [...]
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Posted on May 8th, 2006 by joshbusby
A number of us scholarly folk met this past week at a workshop on the “Politics and Policy of HIV/AIDS” at Princeton on May 5th. Presenters included Evan Lieberman and Josh Busby of Princeton, Sue Peterson of the College of William and Mary, Susan Sell of George Washington University, Nathan Paxton [...]
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Posted on March 7th, 2006 by Ben
Wednesday March 8, 2006
Location 223 Moses
12 – 2 Panel Presentation with Lunch
Working Title: The Global and Local Politics of HIV/AIDS
Purpose: to receive public comments on paper concepts
Format: 10-15 minute presentations followed by questions
Participants: Josh, Nate, Ben, Jessica, and Ann Swidler (chair)
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Posted on February 17th, 2006 by Nate
From the KaiserNetwork:
“Properly planned” male circumcision programs should be part of efforts supported by the Group of Eight industrialized nations and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS worldwide, a Los Angeles Times editorial says. Rates of male circumcision — which is “relatively inexpensive and can drastically reduce the [...]
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Posted on November 29th, 2005 by joshbusby
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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Posted on February 11th, 2005 by Nate
I know that RWJ focuses on domestic policy, but I’m pretty sure that
Evan Lieberman’s crossnational study is somehow funded by them. This
leads me to think that there might be to frame our project so that it
fits the framework of at least one of the grants below. (The first
grant, “Changes in Healthcare Financing and Organization”, doesn’t
explicitly [...]
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