Health Affairs

Here are some blog posts that caught my eye this week, as I sifted through foundation blogs I follow. The descriptions are brief—just to give you a flavor of what the post is about.  This is a short week in the office for me, as I head over to nearby Baltimore for the Grantmakers In... Read the rest of this entry »

Health Affairs plans a thematic issue on lessons learned from, and future prospects for, the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). This special issue will appear in July 2012, before the opening of the World AIDS Meeting in Washington, D.C A number of articles have already been commissioned and are listed on the Health... Read the rest of this entry »

Since its inception in 2003, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has saved millions of lives through providing anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS.  PEPFAR has been essential in moving overall coverage levels in African countries from near zero to a few countries reaching 80 percent coverage (e.g. Botswana) and several... Read the rest of this entry »

Provisions of the Affordable Care Act and other recent legislative changes will transform public substance abuse treatment in the United States, substantially increasing the funding, expanding access to care, and better integrating it with other health services. That’s the conclusion of an article by Jeffrey Buck, senior advisor for behavioral health in the Center for... Read the rest of this entry »

The International AIDS Conference is currently taking place in Vienna. One of the major themes of the conference, voiced by such notables as Bill Gates and Bill Clinton, is the need for the fight against HIV/AIDS to become more efficient. In the face of declining resources, and more competitors for those resources, there is simply no other choice.... Read the rest of this entry »

Despite unprecedented growth in available resources, the world is facing both short- and long-run financial crises in combating the international HIV/AIDS pandemic. That message emerges strongly from a cluster of articles in the November/December 2009 issue of Health Affairs funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. HIV funding shortfalls and their potential lethal consequences... Read the rest of this entry »

With December 1 marking another World AIDS Day, the November/December 2009 issue of Health Affairs focuses on the economic, political, scientific and ethical challenges facing world policymakers in their response to HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention. Also available from Health Affairs are six free policy briefs on HIV/AIDS. The briefs discuss policy recommendations concerning prevention, funding, research,... Read the rest of this entry »

The newly released November-December 2009 edition of Health Affairs features a series of articles on the challenges posed by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.  The articles focus on steps policymakers can take to change the dynamics of the pandemic so that millions of lives will be saved, infections prevented, and overall costs made more affordable. Publication of the... Read the rest of this entry »

The November/December 2009 edition of Health Affairs focuses on key global health challenges – including the economic, political, scientific and ethical ones – facing world policymakers in their response to HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention.  Over the next several years, the world could face a funding shortfall that would prevent millions more with HIV/AIDS from gaining... Read the rest of this entry »

Responding to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and tackling so-called neglected tropical diseases are the focus of the November/December 2009 edition of Health Affairs, released today. The articles, by leading global health experts from around the world, show that although these challenges differ dramatically, rising to meet them could save millions of lives. Health Affairs will highlight the... Read the rest of this entry »

India has allocated almost 70 percent of its national HIV budget to prevention, focusing on high-risk sexual behavior and injecting drug use, the main drivers of the nation’s HIV/AIDS epidemic. So report Mariam Claeson and Ashok Alexander in the July/August issue of Health Affairs, a thematic volume on health in China and India. “There are... Read the rest of this entry »

Editor’s Note: Health Affairs’deputy editor Parmeeth Atwal spoke recently with Ashok Alexander, director of Avahan, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s HIV prevention initiative in India. Health Affairs devoted its current July/August issue to “Global Health Financing” with support from the Gates Foundation. The Numbers Atwal: The World Health Organization (WHO) and Indian health officials... Read the rest of this entry »