In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Els Torreele of the Open Society Foundations argues against proposals to extend patents on pharmaceuticals, stating that such a move would solidify a broken innovation model that primarily serves the financial interest of the pharmaceutical industry at the...
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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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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.
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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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Despite ratifying the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, many countries have yet to take concrete action on it. This is especially true in the many countries where the predominant form of care for people with disabilities is to segregate them from society in institutions.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: community for all, deinstitutionalization, disability rights, intellectual disabilities, intellectual disability, International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Judith Klein, mental health, public health, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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Women are sterilized without their knowledge or consent on various fallacious grounds. In some cases, proponents defend this practice as necessary to protect women. Nowhere is this argument invoked more than in the case of women with disabilities.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, Disability Rights Initiative, European Court of Human Rights, forced sterilization, intellectual disability, International Day of Persons with Disabilities, International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, mental health, public health, reproductive health, reproductive rights, Tirza Leibowitz, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, women
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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 new law in Malawi finally gives women the right to inherit her husband's estate. In the past, widows and their children were often left with nothing after in-laws took possession of property and valuables. Women’s economic disempowerment has been particularly problematic in the shadow of AIDS.
Posted in: Africa, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: economic equity, HIV/AIDS, housing rights, inheritance rights, law and health, legal reform, Malawi, public health, Tamar Ezer, women, Women's Inheritance Now