CDC’s “Around the World”: World AIDS Day The latest issue of CDC’s “Around the World” newsletter highlights World AIDS Day, which takes place annually on December 1, and includes articles on CDC’s efforts to address HIV/AIDS globally (12/1).

AVAC: AVAC’s World AIDS Day 2020 Letter to the World (12/1). CSIS: Time to Address the Intersecting Crises of Covid-19, HIV, and Gender Inequality Janet Fleischman, senior associate (non-resident), and Maggie McCarten-Gibbs, program manager, both with the Global Health Policy Program at CSIS (11/30). International Partnership for Microbicides: World AIDS…

AP: Red Cross chief urges vaccine ‘fake news’ fight (Lederer, 12/1). BBC News: Coronavirus in South Africa: A nurse’s fight against the ‘Covid storm’ (11/30). Devex: Oxfam targets more diversity in leadership with new ‘intersectional’ strategy (Chadwick, 11/30). Devex: Q&A: The power of faith-specific fundraising (Root, 12/1). New York Times:…

PEPFAR: PEPFAR Latest Global Results This fact sheet provides an update on PEPFAR’s latest global results (12/1). U.S. Department of State: World AIDS Day 2020 Statement In a statement recognizing World AIDS Day 2020, Deborah Birx, U.S. global AIDS coordinator and U.S. special representative for Global Health Diplomacy, discusses U.S.…

AP: On World AIDS Day, South Africa finds hope in new treatment “Health officials are hoping that new, long-acting drugs to help prevent HIV infection will be a turning point for the fight against a global health threat that’s been eclipsed by the coronavirus pandemic. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa…

CNN: The other pandemic that we must cure Mark Dybul, co-director of the Center for Global Health Practice and Impact and professor of medicine at Georgetown University, and Sharon Lewin, director of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity and professor of medicine at the University of Melbourne, Australia,…

UNAIDS: UNAIDS calls on countries to step up global action and proposes bold new HIV targets for 2025 (11/26). UNAIDS: World AIDS Day 2020 message from UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima (12/1). WHO: World AIDS Day 2020 — WHO calls for global solidarity to maintain HIV services (11/30).

HIV Policy Lab: 2020 Global HIV Policy Report: Policy Barriers to HIV Progress The HIV Policy Lab is a collaboration between Georgetown University’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, UNAIDS, the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+), and Talus Analytics. In a new report, the HIV…

U.N. News: Global HIV toll likely to be far higher owing to COVID-19, warns UNAIDS “Countries should adopt ambitious new targets to tackle HIV/AIDS to avoid hundreds of thousands of additional infections and deaths linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.N. said on Thursday. In its appeal, the specialized U.N.…

The Hill: We don’t have to be frozen out of COVID-19 vaccine Corey Casper, chief executive officer at the Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) and clinical professor of medicine and global health at the University of Washington (11/27). IPS: U.N. Special Session on COVID-19 Must Recognize Right to Health &…