The United States is telling African leaders that adopting stringent intellectual property policies will promote African growth through innovation. In reality, Africa has far more to lose from stricter intellectual property regulation, especially when it comes to access to generic medicines and...
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Posted in: Africa, Health, United States
Topics: access to medicines, Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, Brett Davidson, Free Trade Agreement, Health, health media, India, intellectual property, public health, South Africa, Trans Pacific Free Trade Agreement, TRIPS, United States, World Trade Organization
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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has saved and prolonged millions of lives. Yet at this precise moment when the global community should be doing all it can to support the Fund, it is under the most serious assault it has endured in its ten-year history.
Posted in: Africa, Europe, Health, United States
Topics: Barack Obama, Belgium, economic crisis, Eric Goosby, Germany, Global Fund, HIV/AIDS, Ireland, Italy, Jeffrey Sachs, malaria, Netherlands, PEPFAR, public health, Spain, Stephen Lewis, tuberculosis, United States, World Economic Forum
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Congress has reinstated a ban on federal funding for syringe exchange programs, despite the fact that these programs dramatically reduce HIV infections. In the midst of the fiscal crisis, states will have no choice but to cut lifesaving measures.
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A landmark report by the UN Commissioner for Human Rights documents serious human rights abuses perpetrated against sexual and gender minorities worldwide. This is a positive step forward and a victory for LGBT activists who risk their lives fighting for human rights in every corner of the globe.
Posted in: Africa, Asia, Europe, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Middle East, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Brazil, Chile, David Scamell, El Salvador, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, law and health, LGBTI, public health, rape, sexual health and rights, Tonga, transgender, UN Human Rights Council, United States, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, violence against women
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For many people living with HIV, the risk of overdose presents a more imminent threat than AIDS-related illness. Despite this fact, donors and governments are slow to adopt overdose prevention measures as part of their AIDS programs. It's time for a wake-up call.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Health, United States
Topics: Canada, China, drug treatment, drug users, Global Fund, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, naloxone, overdose, PEPFAR, public health, Roxanne Saucier, Russia, UNAIDS, United States, UNODC, Vietnam, World Health Organization
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At this moment in time, we are poised to drastically curb HIV. However, recent cuts in funding and a lack of political commitment threaten our progress. We need to demand more from donor governments, or else we will continue to see millions of people die.
Posted in: Africa, Asia, Europe, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, United States
Topics: Denmark, economic crisis, Germany, Global Fund, health financing, HIV/AIDS, Japan, Jeffrey Sachs, malaria, mother-to-child transmission, Netherlands, public health, Shannon Kowalski, Stephen Lewis, tuberculosis, United States, World AIDS Day
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A move by the U.S. to seize around $70m of assets held by the son of the ruler of Equatorial Guinea suggests Washington will no longer provide a safe haven for the corrupt proceeds of kleptocracy.
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Health facilities are mandated to provide care, especially to society’s most vulnerable people. When hospitals and clinics allow forced and coerced sterilizations, these facilities become places of abuse and torture.
Posted in: Africa, Europe, Governance & Accountability, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Bangladesh, Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, disability rights, forced sterilization, France, HIV/AIDS, intellectual disability, Lydia Guterman, Namibia, Peru, public health, reproductive rights, Roma, torture, United States, women, World Medical Association
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Although hepatitis C is curable, most patients outside of the developed world are unable to access treatment, due largely in part to prohibitive pricing of lifesaving medicines.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Health, United States
Topics: access to medicines, Azadeh Momenghalibaf, Brazil, drug users, Georgia, harm reduction, Hepatitis C, HIV/AIDS, human rights, India, Indonesia, public health, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, Ukraine, United States, video, World Health Organization, World Hepatitis Day
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The Obama Administration has gone out of its way to avoid appearing too insistent in calling on other governments to expand democracy and human rights. Then came Egypt.
Posted in: Governance & Accountability, Middle East, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Barack Obama, democracy, donors, Egypt, James A. Goldston, Pakistan, rule of law, United States