Interview with Former Sen. Bill Frist
Senator Frist, currently a member of the Foundation's Board of Trustees, has published a memoir, A Heart to Serve in which he describes how "medicine can truly be a currency for peace in our world."
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U.S. Global Health Policy: In Focus “U.S. Strategy for Combating the Global TB Epidemic”
Event Date:EventThis webcast features an expert panel discussing the U.S. government's global response to TB and key challenges in combating the disease around the world.
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Mapping the United States Government Engagement in Global Public Health
ReportThis background report lays out the United States government’s engagement in global health activities in order to provide a basis for analysis and to help decision makers understand the scope and organization of programs, policies, authorities, funding and coordinating mechanisms that comprise U.S. support for public health abroad. It provides a more detailed look at some of the research conducted for the Foundation's earlier report, The U.S. Government’s Global Health Policy Architecture: Structure, Programs and Funding.…
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Financing the response to AIDS in low- and middle-income countries: International assistance from the G8, European Commission and other donor Governments in 2008
ReportThis report provides an analysis of donor government funding to address the HIV response in low- and middle-income countries in 2008, the latest year available, as well as trends over time. It includes both bilateral funding from donors and their multilateral contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund), UNITAID, and Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
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The U.S. Strategy For Combating Malaria Around the World: Looking Forward
Event Date:EventThe Kaiser Family Foundation held a briefing on June 17, 2009, to examine the U.S. government's role in addressing malaria moving forward, including its strategic options for reducing the impact of the disease, and the current status of the development of the comprehensive malaria strategy.
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U.S. Global Health Policy: In Focus “IOM Final Report on the U.S. Commitment to Global Health”
Event Date:EventDuring this webcast, members of the Institute of Medicine's committee on the U.S. Commitment to Global Health discussed the committee's final report that concluded that the U.S. government and U.S.-based foundations, universities, nongovernmental organizations, and commercial entities have an opportunity to improve global health and provided specific recommendations for how these groups should proceed.
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U.S. Global Health Policy: In Focus: The President’s Budget for Global Health
Event Date:EventThis webcast features an expert panel examining the global health aspects of the President’s Fiscal Year 2010 budget proposal.
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U.S. Global Health Policy: In Focus: “The Global Fund and the U.S. in Their Next Phase”
Event Date:EventDuring this webcast from Kaiser's Washington, D.C., studio, Michel Kazatchkine, M.D., executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, discusses the next phase of the U.S. government's role and involvement in the Global Fund.
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Addressing the HIV/AIDS Epidemic at Home and Abroad: Short-Term Policy Options Under Consideration by the New Administration and Congress
Issue BriefThis past summer, the United States government’s global HIV/AIDS program was reauthorized and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new data indicating that the epidemic at home was worse than previously thought. These events called significant attention to HIV/AIDS and together present the new Administration and Congress with an opportunity to address the epidemic at home and abroad. Several short-term HIV-specific policy options have already been proposed for consideration, or are…
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Financing the response to AIDS in low- and middle-income countries: International assistance from the G8, European Commission and other donor Governments, 2007
ReportThis report provides an analysis of donor government funding to address the HIV response in low- and middle-income countries in 2007, the latest year available, as well as trends over time. It includes both bilateral funding from donors and their multilateral contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund), UNITAID, and Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).