http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/politicshiv Just what it says Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:22:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en An excerpt from my piece in the Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services This editorial is based on a short trip I took to South Africa earlier this year. April 2009 In 2006, then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama and his wife Michele traveled to Kenya, Obama’s father’s homeland where many of the senator’s ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/politicshiv/2009/10/05/global-aids-policy-in-the-age-of-obama/ Making Markets for Merit Goods with Ethan Kapstein This is from a blog post at the Center for Global Development about a new working paper available at CGD. Sorry it's been so long for me to post here again, but I hope to channel a few new pieces here periodically. Our research on ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/politicshiv/2009/10/05/making-markets-for-merit-goods/ UNAIDS got into the fray. Let me say that I normally like this pope. At least as much as a non-RC can.But what he said in a one-off comment is more than "irresponsible", as some have called it. It is a lie and will lead to unneeded deaths among those Benedict ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/politicshiv/2009/03/26/brief-comment-on-pope-benedicts-irresponsibility/ This article should put us on high alert. Maybe this is how Michelle Obama could get involved with the family's new city. HIV/AIDS Rate in D.C. Hits 3% Considered a 'Severe' Epidemic, Every Mode of Transmission Is Increasing, City Study Finds By Jose Antonio Vargas and Darryl ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/politicshiv/2009/03/15/washington-dc-is-west-africa/ Well, this will just cause all sorts of problems. And before anyone lectures me about the morality of drug legalization or illegalization, what I care most about is keeping people from getting HIV. "Harm reduction" (which includes things like needle exchange) is the best we've got right now. If we can ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/politicshiv/2009/03/11/war-on-drugs-also-war-on-anti-hiv-efforts/ 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/