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AIDS Funding Update

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 [...]

NY Times: “AIDS War is Falling Apart” – PHR Reacts

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 [...]

Preparing for MINURCAT’s Departure: the Post-Peacekeeping Reality in Eastern Chad

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, [...]

US Must Fulfill Its Promise to Scale Up Global AIDS Programs

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 [...]

Want to Help Allieviate the Health Workforce Crisis? Work with Africa Health Placements

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 [...]

The Health Workforce Crisis: In YOUR Words

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 [...]

Video Spotlights Lives of Four Kenyan Health Workers

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 [...]

Human Resources for Health Index

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 [...]

We Don’t Have to Choose between HIV/AIDS Programs and Other Global Health Initiatives

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 [...]

Keeping Our Promise on AIDS

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 [...]

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