Tag Archive | HIV policy
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 […]
Early HIV Treatment and Socioeconomic Outcomes in Africa
A first-of-its-kind clinical study in Uganda that compared socioeconomic outcomes with CD4+ counts—a standard measure of health status for people with HIV—showed that adults with HIV in rural sub-Saharan Africa who receive antiretroviral drugs early in their infection, they may reap benefits in their ability to work and their children’s ability to stay in school. The […]
UNAIDS Director Calls For Ending Stigma and Discrimination
Michel Sidibé, the Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, one of the featured speakers at the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. this week has called for ending discrimination and stigma in order to confront HIV/AIDS worldwide. When Sidibé came to the San Francisco Bay Area on a “listening tour” a few weeks ago to […]
U.S. Congress and the Global AIDS Epidemic
Bipartisan political support is central to the U.S. government’s domestic and international response to HIV/AIDS, and a special session devoted to this response was held at AIDS 2012 on Wednesday. Vivek Jain, an assistant professor of medicine in the UCSF Division of HIV/AIDS at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH), offered the following report on the session: Former […]
UNAIDS Director Calls for Zero Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission
Michel Sidibé, the Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, one of the featured speakers at the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. this week, is calling for an end to HIV transmission from mother-to-child, which continues to occur hundreds of thousands of times a year. He appeared on the main stage with Florence Uche […]
Community-Based Health Campaign in Uganda (Video)
A clinical study in a remote region of southwest Uganda has demonstrated the feasibility of using a health campaign to rapidly test a community for HIV and simultaneously offer prevention and diagnosis for a variety of other diseases in rural and resource-poor settings of sub-Saharan Africa. At the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., the […]
