Premium Times: What Nigeria must do to combat HIV/AIDS — U.S. Diplomat “In order to curb HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, a diplomat from the United States has appealed for concerted efforts from all Nigerians saying the war against the disease cannot be fought by institutions alone. … [United States Ambassador to…

Devex: What’s behind PEPFAR’s funding cut threats? “As it wraps up its latest funding round, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is prepared to introduce unprecedented cuts to country programs in sub-Saharan Africa, designed to spur domestic policy changes and programmatic improvements. But observers warn that if enacted, the…

PEPFAR: PEPFAR Will Invest Nearly $2 Billion This Year To Empower and Support Women and Girls “At the Women Deliver conference in Vancouver, the U.S. government announced [Tuesday] that it will invest nearly $2 billion this year to advance gender equality by supporting millions of women and girls through the…

aidsmap: Most new HIV infections occur in lower prevalence countries not prioritized by PEPFAR “The burden of the global HIV epidemic is disproportionately falling on lower-prevalence countries, according to an analysis published in the Journal of Virus Eradication. The majority of new HIV infections, cases of mother-to-child HIV transmission, and…

FHI 360’s “R&E Search for Evidence”: ASPIRES’ realist evaluation approach to building the evidence base for household economic strengthening to reduce HIV vulnerability Emily Namey, associate director for the behavioral, epidemiological, and clinical sciences division for Global Health, Population and Nutrition at FHI 360 and research and evaluation specialist for…

IDSA’s “Science Speaks”: CDC: Across 20 PEPFAR countries, index testing for HIV doubled diagnosis rates Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer at “Science Speaks,” discusses findings from a recently published CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) report on scaling up HIV testing among exposed partners and children of people…

Devex: Interactive: Dissecting PEPFAR’s Country Operational Plans “…In the past 16 years, PEPFAR has changed and evolved as both politics and the HIV epidemic have shifted. In recent months, as the Trump administration has sought to exert greater influence over U.S. global health policy, the initiative has faced new demands…

The Hill: Ending AIDS requires U.S. investment Mark Dybul, faculty co-director of the Center for Global Health and Quality and professor in the department of medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center, and Bill Frist, heart and lung transplant surgeon, former U.S. Senate majority leader and chair of the executive board…

Kaiser Family Foundation: Breaking Down the U.S. Global Health Budget by Program Area The U.S. government is the largest donor to global health in the world. This KFF fact sheet breaks down the U.S. global health budget by program area: HIV/PEPFAR; tuberculosis (TB); malaria/the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI); the Global…

Stanford Medicine: Foreign aid for public health bolsters America’s ‘soft power’ This release discusses findings from a recent study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine on the impact of U.S. foreign aid on other countries’ public opinion. The release states, “Compared with other types of foreign aid,…