Selected Recent Articles

• GOP, Dem, Green, Libertarian: Their Stances on HIV/AIDS.  (October 2016, Poz)
• Treat global health crises the same way as national security crises, panel says.  (October 2016, Science Speaks)
• NIH funds research network for youth with, at risk for HIV.  (October 2016, Healio)
• Catching Fire: The Realities of the New Era in HIV Prevention and Care.  (September 2016, Poz)
• First Statewide PrEP and PEP Education Bill Signed Into Law.  (September 2016, Poz)
• Woman-centric Research and Why it’s Time to Listen to the Ladies.  (September 2016, AVAC)
• Global Fund Raises $12.9B to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.  (September 2016, Poz); related coverage from Science Speaks Blog
• White House pledges up to $4.3 billion for Global Fund through 2019.  (September 2016, Healio); related coverage from Science Speaks Blog and Poz
• Overdose Prevention: An Infectious Disease Program Responsibility.  (August 2016, NASTAD Blog)
• If We Act to Remove Structural, Behavioral and Social Barriers, We Can End the HIV Epidemic with the Medicines We Already Have.  (August 2016, TheBodyPro)
• What Passage of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) Means for HIV and Hepatitis Programs.  (August 2016, NASTAD Blog)
• A Community Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and Prevention.  (August 2016, Poz)
•  Data on National HIV/AIDS Strategy Indicators.  (July 2016, Poz)
• Limited Medicaid expansion leaves many blacks, women with HIV uninsured.  (July 2016, Healio)
• PEPFAR, partners award $85 million to 56 entities to reduce HIV.  (July 2016, Healio)
• Donor Cuts for Global HIV Investments Imperil Programming for Key Populations.  (July 2016, Global Forum on MSM and HIV)
• Political Will to Leave Key Populations Behind.  (July 2016, Global Forum on MSM and HIV)
• Young People’s Leadership in Ending AIDS and Achieving Universal and Reproductive Sexual Health Rights by 2030.  (July 2016, Global Forum on MSM and HIV)
• AIDS 2016: Inside the Massive HIV Treatment Access March.  (July 2016, TheBodyPro)
• Fund decline, incidence rise present clear, current threats to HIV services, research, “ending AIDS,” response watchers say.  (July 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
• HIV Epidemics Among Gays and Drug Users Are Less Likely to Get U.S. Aid.  (July 2016, Poz)
• MSMGF’s Plan for Community Action, Sexual Health and Human Rights.  (July 2016, Poz)
• New strategy aims to end AIDS in children by 2020.  (July 2016, AIDSmap)
• North Carolina Lawmakers Legalize Syringe Exchanges.  (July 2016, Hepmag)
• Opening talks celebrate early pivotal action, and those who carry on.  (July 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
• Plenary talk proposes $90, $90, $90 as cost of HIV and viral hepatitis drugs.  (July 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
• $1M Grant Aims to Improve HIV Prevention and Care of Native Americans.  (July 2016, Poz)
• Community systems strengthening needed to end HIV, TB.  (July 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
• Focusing on the Legal, Social and Policy Barriers to HIV Services for Key Populations.  (July 2016, Global Forum on MSM and HIV)
• MSMGF Releases Strategic Plan for 2016-2021: Community Action, Sexual Health and Rights.  (July 2016, Global Forum on MSM and HIV)
• The War on Drugs Fuels the Spread of HIV, Hepatitis C and Tuberculosis.  (July 2016, Poz)
• WHO Flags Key Challenges to Global HIV Response at International AIDS Conference.  (July 2016, World Health Organization)
• Clark County, Indiana’s Syringe Exchange Still Ensnarled in Red Tape.  (July 2016, Poz)
• HHS Announces New Plans to Combat the U.S. Opioid Epidemic.  (July 2016, Poz)
• Ryan White CARE Act Is Still Vital to U.S. HIV Care.  (July 2016, Poz)
• Lawmakers urge FDA to end celibacy policy for gay, bisexual blood donors.  (June 2016, Healio)
• New Durban Declaration highlights five scientific advances, five structural barriers.  (June 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
• The NASTAD Legacy: Using Science and Public Health in the Quest for Social Justice and Human Rights.  (June 2016, NASTAD Blog)
• HLM 2016 AIDS: PEPFAR directs $100 million to reach gay men and other men who have sex with men, transgender people, sex workers, people who inject drugs, and prisoners.  (June 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
• Men who have sex with men, sex workers groups ask: Will next UN political declaration on HIV and AIDS exclude most affected, least reached populations?  (June 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
• Preventing HIV through treatment of neglected tropical diseases could save billions.  (June 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
• World Health Assembly adopts strategies to end viral hepatitis, HIV, STIs.  (June 2016, Healio)
• Huge Upfront Cost for UNAIDS HIV Treatment Goals Equals Huge Payoff.  (May 2016, Poz)
• NASTAD Launches Campaign to Support U.S. Health Departments in Accelerating the End of HIV and Hepatitis.  (May 2016, NASTAD)
• Prevention Activism as PEPFAR Finalizes its Country Operational Plans.  (May 2016, AVAC)
• Key component of PEPFAR’s budget drops 33% in 1 year.  (May 2016, Healio)
• Draft of U.N. HIV political declaration released along with calls for comments.  (April 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
• Syringe access programs and overdose prevention to be funded with federal dollars.  (April 2016, Beta Blog)
• FDA to Place “Black Box” Warnings on All Prescription Opioids.  (March 2016, Hepmag)
• HHS to Spend Additional $94M in 2016 to Fight Opioid Addiction.  (March 2016, Poz)
• American Psychological Association Calls for Reform of HIV Criminalization Laws.  (March 2016, Poz)
• From PEPFAR to Ebola response, to Zika, to next pandemic, panel looks at returns on U.S. investments in global health.  (March 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
• PEPFAR Report to Congress reviews advances, accomplishments, opportunities, cites challenge of growing populations among most at risk (March 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
• Presidential Candidates Answer 10 Questions from 50 AIDS Groups.  (March 2016, Poz)
• Uneven rollout of Affordable Care Act increases health disparities in HIV. (March 2016, Healio)
• Obama administration proposes increased funding for antibiotic resistance, sustained investments for HIV.  (February 2016, Healio)
• PEPFAR, Global Fund flat in White House Budget document, while TB plan doesn’t get a mention.  (February 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
• Advisory group aims to close gap between men who have sex with men and “fast-tracked ”HIV responses.  (February 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
• UK strategy could prevent 7,400 MSM HIV infections by 2020.  (January 2016, Healio)
• Congress Eases Restrictions on Funding for Syringe Exchange.  (January 2016, amfAR)
• A clean needle, an HIV test, and acknowledgment…We’re reading about simple solutions, out of reach.  (January 7, 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
• Syringe Exchanges Often Lacking Where Needed Most.  (January 2016, Poz)
• Global HIV, tuberculosis programs flat funded in FY 2016 spending bill, yet again.  (December 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
• U.S. syringe funding ban impedes HIV and hepatitis C prevention.  (December 2015, AIDSmap)
• WHO issues recommendations on linkage to care, retention, to help bring HIV treatment to all.  (December 2015, AIDSmap)
• Harm reduction conference calls for political leadership to reform drugs policy.  (October 2015, AIDSmap)
• HHS awards $2.2 billion for HIV care and medications in 2015.  (October 2015, Healio)
• ‘Extraordinarily high’ cost of HIV medications responsible for treatment delays.  (October 2015, Healio)
• Risks and challenges of people who inject drugs, earn income through sex work recognized, but seldom addressed inadequate, joined responses.  (October 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
• Retreat of international donors and neglect of national governments threatens harm reduction services.  (October 2015, AIDSmap)
• WHO Decision to Recommend Treatment for All With HIV an Easy One – Now Comes the Hard Part.  (October 2015, Journal Watch and TheBodyPro)
• PEPFAR announces prevention, treatment targets, highlights “DREAMS” for young women.  (September 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
• Ryan White CARE Act Funds Vital Social Services Along With HIV Care.  (September 2015, Poz)
• Affordable Care Act Is a Success On Many Counts.  (August 2015, Poz)
• PrEP, Earlier ART, and Better HIV Care in the Updated National HIV/AIDS Strategy.  (July 2015, Beta Blog)How HIV Treatment and Prevention Programs Succeed Together.  (July 2015, TheBodyPro)
• Right Thing, Right Place, Right Time: Utilizing Data to Strengthen the Fight Against HIV.  (July 2015, TheBodyPro)
• Confronting community realities together will beat AIDS, Amb. Birx says.  (July 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
• HIV Treatment Access Is a Human Right, Top Officials Say as Conference Opens.  (July 2015, TheBodyPro)
• The Vancouver Consensus: A New Declaration Against HIV.  (July 2015, TheBodyPro)
• World Health Organization to recommend HIV treatment for all.  (July 2015, AIDSmap)
• World Health Organization urges more HIV testing by non-medical staff, outside of clinical settings, targeted to those who need it the most.  (July 2015, AIDSmap)
• UNAIDS Calls for Scale-Up in Global HIV Fight.  (July 2015, Poz)
• Children, people with HIV, pregnant women and others underserved by TB drug development present ethical imperative, opportunities for global disease approaches, authors say.  (June 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
• Budget cuts threaten HIV vaccine development, say experts.  (May 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
• U.S. Fails in Abstinence and Faithfulness Push in Sub-Saharan Africa.  (March 2015, Poz)
• Ambassador Birx talks about the tyranny of averages, actionable data, and “skeptical optimism.”  (February 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
• Local spending on HIV prevention in England plunges to 70p per person, per year.  (February 2015, AIDSmap)
• Critiquing UNAIDS HIV Prevention Goals, AVAC Calls For Honed Strategy.  (February 2015, Poz)
• 114th Congress and Global Health: Subcommittees with bilateral, multilateral oversight get new members.  (February 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
• PEPFAR requires its programs to seek, use, document civil society input in planning.  (February 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
• 114th Congress and Global Health: House Energy and Commerce Committee, Health Subcommittee.  (February 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
• 114th Congress and Global Health: House Appropriations Committee, State and Foreign Ops, Labor HHS Subcommittees.  (February 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
• 114th Congress and Global Health: Senate HELP and Budget committees see changes in leadership and perspective on global health.  (February 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
• 114th Congress and Global Health: Senate Appropriations Committee, subcommittees leadership passes to familiar and new leaders with global health, research and human rights records.  (February 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
• 114th Congress and Global Health: Senate Foreign Relations Committee, new subcommittees bring diverse views, background to global health leadership roles.  (February 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
• 10 HIV Prevention Developments to Watch in 2015.  (February 2015, AVAC)
• FDA Sustains Gay Stereotypes, HIV Stigma in Blood Donor Policy Change, Advocates Say.  (December 2014, TheBody)
• 6 Lessons for Health Departments Using PrEP as an HIV Prevention Tool.  (December 2014, National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors)
• Concerns Over U.S. HIV and Hepatitis B Military Policies.  (December 2014, Hepmag)
• NASTAD Seeks Reduced HIV and Hepatitis Reporting Burden.  (December 2014, Hepmag)
• HIV epidemic will spring back without near-universal diagnosis and treatment, says UNAIDS.  (December 2014, AIDSmap)
• Global Report Details Advocacy Strategies of People With HIV,  At-Risk Groups.  (November 2014, TheBodyPro)
• CDC Analyzes Impediments to Viral Suppression in People With HIV.  (November 2014, Poz)
• NHS urgently needs to make PrEP available, say HIV prevention organisations.  (November 2014, AIDSmap)
• How does a ‘human rights based approach’ work out on the ground? Lessons from South Africa.  (October 2014, AIDSmap)
• Why Did AIDS Activists Go to Geneva to Cite U.S. HIV/AIDS Policies as a Form of Racial Discrimination?  (October 2014, TheBody)
• Tell No Lies: Essays on Global AIDS Effort Pull No Punches in Challenging “End of AIDS” Rhetoric.  (October 2014, TheBody)
• Selling the End of AIDS.  (October 2014, Poz)
• UNAIDS sets 90:90:90 target for 2020 to end AIDS by 2030. (August 2014, HIV i-Base)
• Advocacy Groups Report to UN on U.S. Failures to Address the HIV Epidemic in Communities of Color. (August 2014, HIV Prevention Justice Alliance)
• Of guidelines, targets and resources: the documents that defined the 2014 International AIDS Conference.  (July 2014, AIDSmap)
• A (Cyber) Space for Community for HIV prevention. (July 2014, Health Policy Project)Financing the New Global HIV Treatment Vision – Advocacy and Economics. (July 2014, Health Policy Project)
• When HIV Research and Data Collection Is at Odds with “Do No Harm.” (July 2014, Health Policy Project)
• A new target for HIV treatment from UNAIDS.  (July 2014, Science Speaks Blog)
• It’s Time to ‘Step Up the Pace’ Against Global HIV.  (July 2014, Poz)
• What is needed to ‘step up the pace’ on HIV prevention and treatment?  (July 2014, AIDSmap)
• Financing the new global HIV treatment vision – advocacy and economics.  (July 2014, Science Speaks Blog)
• Undetectable viral load an opportunity for all by 2020 is activists’ call for action.  (July 2014, Science Speaks Blog)
• Pediatric treatment planning, action call at last plenary. (July 2014, Science Speaks Blog)
• Human Rights Violations Create HIV Risk Environment in the U.S. South.  (July 2014, TheBodyPro)
• New Analysis Identifies Major Gaps in Hep C Health Care.  (July 2014, Hepmag)
• 5.7M Could Lack Insurance in 2016 Without Medicaid Expansion.  (July 2014, Hepmag)
• HIV, Hep C Advocates Urge Congress to Lift Syringe Funding Ban.  (July 2014, Hepmag)
• NIH Seeks Applications For HIV and Viral Hepatitis Co-Infection Research Funding.  (June 2014, Hepmag)
• Poll: 75% of Primary Care Docs Unaware of New Hep C Meds.  (June 2014, Hepmag)
• Medicare & Medicaid Will Pay to Screen At-Risk Groups for Hep C.  (June 2014, Poz)
• New FDA HIV Treatment Guidelines Account for Cost. (May 2014, Poz)
• Early Data Suggests Many With HIV Accessed Obamacare.  (April 2014, Poz)
• Douglas Brooks Is Office of National AIDS Policy Director.  (March 2014, Poz)
• Lawmakers Attack High Price of Gilead’s Hep C Drug Sovaldi.  (March 2014, Poz)
• ACA Turns Four: Recognizing Successes and Looking Ahead.  (March 2014, National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors)
• Early Treatment Lowers HIV’s Spread and Benefits Economy.  (March 2014, Poz)
• Two More Louisiana Insurers Reject ACA Ryan White Funds.  (February 2014, Poz)
• Policy Guide Reveals ACA Barriers to HIV, Hep C Treatment.  (February 2014, Poz)
• Users Report Major Improvements to HealthCare.gov.  (December 2013, Poz)
• Insurance Companies Can Keep Canceled Health Plans for 2014.  (November 2013, Poz)
• Sequestration Hits HIV Hard.  (October 2013, Poz)
• Government Shutdown Obstructs Work at NIH and CDC.  (October 2013, Poz)
• Red States Leave Many Poor Americans Out of Obamacare.  (October 2013, Poz)
• Political leadership on finance and pace of scale-up needed to realise full potential of treatment as prevention.  (September 2013, AIDSmap)
• Government Shutdown May Slow FDA Drug Approvals.  (September 2013, Poz)
• HIV Antitrust Appeal to Also Decide if Gay Jurors Are Protected.  (September 2013, Poz)
• Improvements Needed in Addressing Global Pediatric HIV.  (September 2013, Poz)
• The Affordable Care Act Finally Unrolls the Carpet.  (September 2013, Poz)
• UK healthcare workers with HIV to be cleared for dental and surgical work.  (August 2013, AIDSmap)
• Congress Closer to Lifting HIV-Positive Organ Donor Ban.  (July 2013, Poz)
• Non-African middle-income countries pay four times more for ARVs than African middle-income countries.  (July 2013, AIDSmap)
• Scientists and clinicians must challenge HIV-related stigma and ensure enabling legal and policy environments, IAS conference hears.  (July 2013, AIDSmap)
• HIV Meds Much Cheaper Globally, Unless They’re Newer Drugs.  (July 2013, Poz)
• Experts discuss role of drug policy in HIV, hepatitis and TB epidemics.  (July 2013, AIDSmap)