When AIDS Came to Uganda
More from Moses Kamya, MB, ChB, MMed, MPH, PhD, a professor and chair of the department of medicine at Makerere University in Kampala Uganda, who talks about AIDS and its effect in Uganda. Here he talks about the first case of AIDS he saw in Uganda, a friend and medical student in his class came […]
PEPFAR from a U.S. Perspective
In the last video we looked at the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) from the perspective of a doctor in a recipient country. Here we talk to Ambassador Mark Dybul, who co-directs the Global Health Law Program at Georgetown University Law Center’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, where he is also a […]
Intersection of Non-Communicable Diseases and Aging in HIV
HIV and Diseases Associated with Aging Epidemics are Colliding on a Global Scale Do not regret growing older, it is a privilege not afforded to many with HIV remarked Judith Currier, Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of the Center for AIDS Research and Education Center (CARE) at the University of California Los Angeles at her Friday […]
Support for PEPFAR — Republican or Democrat? (video)
This is a snippet from an interview with Steve Morin in which he discusses what is behind the bipartisan support of PEPFAR, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. “PEPFAR enjoys strong bipartisan support for a number of reasons,” Morin said. “It responds to a humanitarian need, it is vital to some of our […]
Should U.S. women use PrEP? Will they?
Although there have been exciting advances in the field of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) over the past several years, the implications of PrEP for women have been more murky. Some major PrEP trials have shown efficacy of this strategy in heterosexual African women, but there have been no clinical trials investigating the utility of PrEP […]
