With the possibility of an HIV/AIDS impact evaluation study on the horizon and as I polish my job talk about the demand for HIV/AIDS interventions in Africa, I’ve been reading a lot about HIV prevention interventions. Here are some recent finds on the web:
Ugandan Insomniac shares this image from the Ugandan AIDS Vaccine Newsletter.
And, until [...]
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HIV/AIDS Images and Links
Posted in links, tagged AIDS, HIV, hiv/aids, image, links, thailand, uganda, vaccine on 3 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An ounce of prevention no longer worth a pound of cure?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged HIV, AIDS, hiv/aids, transmission, prevention, research, treatment, intervention, study, incidence, funding on 7 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So much of the money for HIV/AIDS interventions is spent on treating the sick that I wonder how much we value prevention. Recent work modeling the impact of immediate availability of antiretroviral therapy on HIV incidence suggest treating the HIV-infected would curb transmission (see January 2009 issue of The Lancet). Mead Over at the Center [...]
this week’s HIV/AIDS links
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Africa, AIDS, Brazil, HIV, hiv/aids, male circumcision, south africa, uganda on 17 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Circumcision of HIV-infected men did not reduce HIV transmission to female partners over 24 months in a randomized controlled trial in Rakai, Uganda.
AIDS prevention message for the “real” African man.
Elizabeth Pisani reviews The Politics and History of AIDS Treatment in Brazil for The Lancet.
What AIDS is like in South Africa, from the eyes of a [...]
A Sad Research Topic
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Africa, AIDS, aids activist, HIV, hiv/aids, obituary, research, south africa, thembi ngubane on 14 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Most days I talk about how I wish I didn’t study AIDS because I think it’s an overdone topic receiving too much attention when there are other problems with wider impacts affecting rural Africa. But, honestly, there’s another reason why I wish I studied something else: AIDS is sad. Interviewing people sick with AIDS is [...]
Africans and aid for AIDS: Do we care what they want?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Africa, aid, AIDS, health, health policy, HIV, hiv/aids, policy, stigma on 4 June 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last month, I presented a chapter from my dissertation about local demand for AIDS intervention. The findings are somewhat controversial in that there’s a serious misalignment in policy priorities: we in the West have spent a lot on HIV/AIDS, whereas ordinary Africans have stated preferences prioritizing other public policy problems. The discussion was lively to [...]
Hope for change with Obama’s Global AIDS Coordinator appointment?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Africa, condoms, HIV, AIDS, pepfar, bush, hiv/aids, virus, transmission, obama, goosby, prevention, pope on 29 April 2009 | 2 Comments »
US President Obama has named Eric Goosby as Global AIDS Coordinator, making him the administrator of the President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Blogger Texas in Africa has hope that the new appointment and the reign of Obama will bring about some change, in particular, a better dose of prevention. Yes, prevention is important, [...]
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