http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/politicshiv Just what it says Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:38:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The pending Wall Street bailout reminds us that the buoyant global economy of recent years created permissive conditions for international altruism on global health and development. With America's economy staggering, the effects are being felt further afield among other major industrialized economies, the UK included. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/politicshiv/2008/09/21/end-of-an-era-a-high-water-mark-in-aids-funding/ As the global AIDS community prepares for the conference beginning Sunday in Mexico City, President Bush is signing the reauthorization bill for PEPFAR today. It has been named after Tom Lantos and Henry Hyde, Democratic and Republican members of Congress who passed away within the past year. When Elizabeth Dole ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/politicshiv/2008/07/30/pepfar-reauthorization-signing-ceremony/ The Senate voted 65-3 on a cloture motion on PEPFAR reauthorization last Friday. Here's a story in today's Times about PEPFAR reauthorization. More details on Kaiser. Looks like Sen. Jim Demint made an ass of himself before his colleagues on Friday when he insisted on a Friday evening procedural vote on ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/politicshiv/2008/07/14/senate-moves-on-pepfar-reauthorization/ The Kaiser Family Foundation (supported by the Gates Foundation) hosts this site of news sources on global health, including upcoming events. I will add to the blogroll but here is the link to globalhealthreporting.org. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/politicshiv/2008/06/02/global-health-reporting/ In advance of the Hokkaido G8 summit in July, Japan just announced last week a new contribution to the Global Fund of $560mn, spread out over an unspecified period of years. This is the second reasonably large pledged contribution from Japan since then Prime Minister Koizumi pledged $500mn back in ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/politicshiv/2008/05/31/japan-announces-560mn-contribution-to-the-global-fund/ Just when it looked like PEPFAR would be reauthorized and that Congress would appropriate even more money than the president asked for, seven Senators, led by Tom Coburn of Oklahoma (along with Jim DeMint, Jeff Sessions, Saxby Chambliss, David Vitter, Jim Bunning, Richard Burr), have placed a hold on the ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/politicshiv/2008/05/14/pepfar-reauthorization-in-danger/ Mead Over of the Center of Global Development has a new paper, identifying a problem I wrote about before (see here). Unless the U.S. government gets a handle on AIDS prevention, the extension of ARV therapy will consume a larger and larger share of U.S. foreign assistance. In effect, we ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/politicshiv/2008/05/07/the-aids-entitlement-crisis/ Over at the CSIS Africa Policy Forum, I have a new op-ed on male circumcision and HIV prevention. Here are some excerpts: In the past few years, clinical trials in Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa confirmed that male circumcision (MC) reduces the risk of transmission of HIV infection by approximately 60%. In ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/politicshiv/2008/03/04/new-op-ed-on-male-circumcision-and-hiv-prevention/ It looks like a bipartisan compromise on PEPFAR reauthorization has been reached which will do several things: (1) provide even more money than President Bush asked for (which already represented a doubling over the previous five year program) (2) ease the rules and restrictions that directed a portion of prevention money to ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/politicshiv/2008/02/29/compromise-on-pepfar-reauthorization/ From the KaiserNetwork.org A pharmaceutical plant in Uganda this week will begin production of generic antiretroviral drugs following an order from the Ugandan government for drugs worth 17 billion Ugandan shillings, or about $10 million, the East African Business Week reports (Etyang, East African Business Week, 1/28). Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in October ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/politicshiv/2008/02/01/uganda-begins-production-of-9-per-month-arvs/