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Pretrial Detention and Health: Unintended Consequences, Deadly Results
November 6, 2011
Overcrowded, unsanitary prisons and holding facilities can become breeding grounds for tuberculosis, hepatitis C, HIV and other illnesses. This report, aimed at health professionals, looks at the sometimes disasterous health impacts of the excessive use of pretrial detention.
The Value of Freedom
Zulaika Esentaeva
December 20, 2011
 BLOG
A self-advocacy group for people with mental disabilities in Kyrgyzstan offers hope within a society that typically stigmatizes them.
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Why Are World Leaders Turning Their Backs on Africa?
Stephen Lewis
January 17, 2012
BLOG
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.
Book Launch: Ernest Drucker's A Plague of Prisons
OSI-New York
October 11, 2011
 AUDIO
On October 11, Open Society Foundations fellow Ernest Drucker discusses his new book, A Plague of Prisons, a groundbreaking critique of mass incarceration in the United States and elsewhere.
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Why Are World Leaders Turning Their Backs on Africa?
Stephen Lewis
January 17, 2012
BLOG
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.
Spreading the Word Online for Palliative Care in Kenya
Julia Strong
January 6, 2012
BLOG
The Kenya Hospice and Palliative Care Association is a grantee of the Open Society Public Health Program and Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa. Julia Strong, a Volunteer Resource Mobilizer with the association, shares some recent lessons learned about online communication.
The Value of Freedom
Zulaika Esentaeva
December 20, 2011
BLOG
A self-advocacy group for people with mental disabilities in Kyrgyzstan offers hope within a society that typically stigmatizes them.
Congress's Holiday Message to People Who Use Drugs: Drop Dead
Zoe Hudson
December 16, 2011
BLOG
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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Call for Applications: 2012 Baltimore Community Fellows
Deadline: March 12, 2012
OSI-Baltimore is pleased to announce a call for 2012 Baltimore Community Fellows. In addition to the ten slots that are available for the Baltimore Community Fellowships, we are pleased to announce two additional fellowships. These new fellowships, sponsored by the Open Society Foundations’ Campaign for Black Male Achievement, will support individuals working with black men and boys in the areas of education, family, and work.
Call for Applications: Human Rights and Drug Policy Summer Course
Deadline: February 15, 2012
Applications are invited from high-achieving MA and PhD students, junior faculty, research staff in universities and other institutions and professionals.
Christopher Stone to Lead Open Society Foundations in 2012
December 7, 2011
The Open Society Foundations today announced the appointment of Christopher Stone as its next president, effective July 2012.
UNESCO: Obiang Prize Suspended Again
Press Release
October 5, 2011
The Open Society Justice Initiative and five other groups have called for UNESCO to eliminate a controversial prize that would honour Africa's longest serving autocrat.
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Consumers in the Information Society
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
March 8, 2012
This event, organized by Open Society grantee Consumers International, addresses questions raised by digital technologies about a fair intellectual property regime that fosters access to knowledge.
Salzburg Seminar: Palliative Care for Patients with TB or HIV/TB
Salzburg, Austria
February 26, 2012
The International Palliative Care Initiative of the Open Society Public Health Program will convene a professional seminar focused on providing palliative care for patients with TB or HIV/TB coinfection. The course is recommended for physicians in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union who provide direct care to patients with TB or who play a major role in developing public health policies for the care of patients with TB.
Sanctioned Cruelty: Reproductive Rights Violations as Torture
OSI-New York
December 7, 2011
As part of the Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, the Center for Reproductive Rights and Open Society Foundations will host a special screening of the Center’s new short documentary, Sanctioned Cruelty: Reproductive Rights Violations as Torture.
Intravenous Drug Use and HIV
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
November 28, 2011
This session provides a platform for discussion on implementing and building research capacity in the sub-Saharan African region on intravenous drug use and the spread of HIV.
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