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Sarah Kalloch on
May 21, 2010
Want to learn more about the challenges facing the AIDS community right now? Checkout this recent segment from WAMU Radio’s The Diane Rehm Show, “Setback in the Fight Against AIDS“ (May 18), which features global health luminaries and PHR friends:
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH
Stephen Lewis, HAA supporter, Former Special Envoy [...]
Posted in AIDS, General Human Rights, Health
| Tagged africa, PEPFAR, peter mugyenyi, Uganda
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Sarah Kalloch on
May 20, 2010
On May 10th, The New York Times published a heartrending story on the faltering fight against AIDS in Uganda — a story that has sparked a firestorm of controversy and criticism of the Obama Administration’s global AIDS strategy.
The Times identified a deep funding gap for combating AIDS in Uganda, including a freeze on new funds from [...]
Posted in AIDS, General Human Rights, Health
| Tagged africa, AIDS, GHA, Global HEALTH Act, hillary clinton, hiv, new york times, Pat Doust, PEPFAR, peter mugyenyi, Uganda
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By
Joe Read on
April 29, 2010
Next week, the UN Secretary-General’s report on the future of the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT) peacekeeping force in Eastern Chad will be released, outlining the withdrawal of peacekeeping troops in the Chad-Sudan border region visited by PHR researchers in 2008. The report Nowhere to Turn: Failure to Protect, [...]
Posted in Conflict, Darfur, General Human Rights, Women
| Tagged africa, aid workers, central african republic, chad, Darfur, IECAH, minurcat, ngos, nowhere to turn, Phase IV, refugees, Secretary-General, security, Security Council, sudan, UN, united nations
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By
Helen Potts on
April 14, 2010
The news that health facilities in Uganda have received notification to stop enrolling new patients in PEPFAR programs confirms what we have suspected and reported on since mid 2009 — that the Obama administration is curtailing its commitment to PEPFAR.
Ambassador Goosby’s optimism regarding increased funding in the coming years and the Obama Administration’s commitment to nearly doubling [...]
Posted in AIDS, Health, Women
| Tagged africa, arvs, barack obama, lancet, PEPFAR, Uganda
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By
Sarah Kalloch on
March 30, 2010
This month, PHR is examining the health workers shortage in Africa ahead of the introduction of the Global HEALTH Act, which would provide $2 billion over five years to strengthen the health workforce in developing countries.
Today, we want to highlight an organization that is working right now to fill health worker vacancies in rural areas [...]
Posted in Health
| Tagged africa, Africa Health Placements, AHP, GHA, Global HEALTH Act, Lesotho, south africa, Swaziland
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By
Sarah Kalloch on
March 23, 2010
Over the past month, PHR’s Health Rights Advocate blog has highlighted the health workforce crisis in Africa, and how the about-to-be-released Global HEALTH Act can help.
Now, we want to hear from you.
What is your experience with the health workforce crisis in Africa? If you are from Africa or another developing country with a health workforce [...]
Posted in Health
| Tagged africa, Global HEALTH Act, health workers, health workforce, health workforce crisis
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Sarah Kalloch on
March 10, 2010
We’re just a month away from World Health Day (April 7th) and the official launch of advocacy for the Global HEALTH Act of 2010. So far this month, through this blog you’ve learned about the Global HEALTH Act and gotten some great facts about the health workforce crisis (and how many people are waiting in line [...]
Posted in AIDS, General Human Rights, Health, Lessons from Kenya, Students, Video, Women
| Tagged africa, fred katumba, Global HEALTH Act, Health Rights Advocacy Forum, health workforce, Jane Byarugaba, kenya, powerpoint, resources, Uganda, Video, World Health Day
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By
Hope O'Brien on
March 4, 2010
To promote and protect the Right to Health, a health system must be of good quality, equitable, integrated, responsive, effective, and accessible to all. The capacities of health systems can be measured in many ways. No matter how they are measured, the disparities between countries’ health systems are tremendous, and these differences are a matter of human rights. It’s [...]
Posted in Health
| Tagged africa, DC, doctors, Ethiopia, facts, G8, Global HEALTH Act, Health Systems, health worker shortage, human resources, index, physicians, right to health, washington, WHO
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By
Pete Witzler on
June 23, 2009
With hearings and debates scheduled in Congress in the coming weeks global AIDS funding is in the news once again. Health Action AIDS Campaign Director Pat Daoust responded to recent coverage in the Boston Globe with a hard-hitting letter to the editor. She strongly rebuts the notion that “Africa is covered in HIV/AIDS money:”
[T]hey are [...]
Posted in AIDS, Take Action
| Tagged africa, barack obama, global health, pat daoust, PEPFAR, peter mugyenyi, sarah kalloch, us senate
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By
Pat Daoust, MSN, RN on
June 12, 2009
On Tuesday, June 9, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held confirmation hearings for Dr. Eric Goosby to serve as Ambassador at Large and US Global AIDS Coordinator. That same day, nearly 6,000 people living with HIV around the world died — as they do every day — due to a lack of access to life-saving treatments.
The stakes are high [...]
Posted in AIDS, Health
| Tagged africa, ambassador at large, barack obama, eric goosby, lancet, PEPFAR, peter mugyenyi, senate foreign relations committee, us global aids coordinator, us global health intiative
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