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,…

Devex: PEPFAR funding: Taking stock of the latest changes “As the largest and most impactful global health initiative ever undertaken, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is credited with saving millions of lives and changing the trajectory of the global HIV epidemic. Since its creation in 2003, PEPFAR…

Devex: U.S. House aid budget bill pushes back against Trump administration policies “A bill approved Friday would increase U.S. foreign aid funding by 3.9% from fiscal year 2019, and reject the Trump administration’s proposed cuts. The U.S. House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee charged with the state and foreign affairs budget…

Devex: Opinion: The ‘global gag rule’ hits PEPFAR implementers, study shows Jennifer Sherwood, policy associate at amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, and Matthea Roemer, Global Health Corps fellow based in Rwanda “January marked the second anniversary of U.S. President Donald Trump’s reinstatement and expansion of the ‘global gag rule’…

Business Day: Health department scrambles to stop U.S. cut in HIV funds “Top health department officials are set to travel to Washington later in April to try persuading the U.S. not to slash its support for SA’s HIV/AIDS programs. … In a surprise move barely six weeks after announcing that…

Capital News: Project DREAMS helps prevent vulnerable young women from HIV infections “Visiting Deputy Administrator USAID Bonnie Glick has held a round-table discussion with beneficiaries of DREAMS, a USAID funded project which is part of the agency’s commitment to HIV prevention among young people. Glick who held the forum at…

IntraHealth International: IntraHealth to Work with Local African Partners on the Road to Self-Reliance and HIV Epidemic Control “Through the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) $38.5 million Accelerating Support to Advanced Local Partners (ASAP) project, IntraHealth International will work with sub-Saharan African countries to rapidly prepare local organizations and…

Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Members of Congress call for continued PEPFAR and Global Fund support “On March 28, Members of Congress sent a letter to Chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), Ranking Member Kay Granger (R-Tex.), and Ranking Member Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) of the House Appropriations…