UNAIDS announced an eight-year trend shows new HIV infections are down 17% in sub-Saharan Africa with its release today of the 2009 AIDS Epidemic Update, and everyone is all atwitter about it. I was no exception, but my tweet mentioned that I was skeptical.
“Why?” asked Mark Daku. I just don’t know what to make of changes [...]
Posts Tagged ‘hiv/aids’
estimating HIV prevalence
Posted in UNAIDS, data, health, hiv/aids, tagged AIDS, data, epidemiology, estimate, HIV, hiv/aids, population-based testing, prevalence, refusal bias, UNAIDS on 24 November 2009 | 4 Comments »
Advocacy for Aid for AIDS
Posted in globalization, government, hiv/aids, research, tagged advocacy, aid, AIDS, funding, HIV, hiv/aids on 18 November 2009 | 3 Comments »
Owen abroad discusses the lethal effects of development advocacy. His first example is of earmarked funding for HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia:
…we should also make sure that people have bednets and drugs to stop malaria, provide childhood vaccination to prevent easily preventable diseases, ensure access to contraception and safe abortions, and, above all, enough funding to [...]
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 »
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 [...]
An ounce of prevention no longer worth a pound of cure?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AIDS, funding, HIV, hiv/aids, incidence, intervention, prevention, research, study, transmission, treatment 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 [...]
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