Dec 13, 2006
PEPFAR policy hinders treatment in generic terms
Critics say FDA approval rule has meant greater use of high-cost drugs at expense of helping fewer patients.
Divine Intervention
Nov 30, 2006
Bush’s AIDS initiative: Too little choice, too much ideology
Restrictive funding, emphasis on abstinence hinder $15 billion effort.
Nov 30, 2006
Fatal error: how Bush’s policy endangers lives
Once again, ideology trumps good science and public health policy as Bush's global AIDS plan ignores reality and endangers women's lives.
Nov 30, 2006
‘Holy water cures even HIV’
ETHIOPIA: Atnafu Betseha, 32, is an Ethiopian Orthodox priest at the holy water site of St. Mary's Church. His job is to administer the water and pray for the healing of the more than 700 pilgrims that arrive here every day.
Nov 30, 2006
‘I was raped by soldiers. The holy water and the drugs will cure me’
ETHIOPIA: Michot Sebresilassei, 20, an HIV-positive woman from Eritrea, drinks holy water every morning to wash down the antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) provided by the U.S. government through the local hospital.
Nov 30, 2006
‘Any good, complex program has an ideology behind it. It’s normal’
ETHIOPIA: Tatiana Shoumilina is an adviser for UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, in Ethiopia. She says HIV programs won't work unless they combine a sense of urgency with long-term planning.
Nov 30, 2006
‘Telling people to be abstinent is like telling somebody to put his hands in the fire’
ETHIOPIA: Mengistu Asnake is the deputy country representative in Ethiopia for Pathfinder International, a Boston-based charity that supports family planning and reproductive health services in the developing world.
Nov 30, 2006
Proselytizing at the Expense of HIV Patients
SOUTH AFRICA: In South Africa, some AIDS funds go to faith-based groups with little expertise.
Nov 30, 2006
‘Not enough money is going to treatment and prevention for younger Haitians’
We speak with Jean-Saurel Beaujour, the founder Haiti's first AIDS community advocacy group.
Nov 30, 2006
Casual Sex, Ignorance and Denial: A Lethal Combination
Nigeria has been slow to respond to the HIV threat, and maybe understating the epidemic's reach.
Nov 30, 2006
Funds to combat HIV welcome in Ethiopia, but not the strings attached
Hotels along Ethiopia's main trade route to the Red Sea are lately undertaking an unexpected and disturbing role as hospices for commercial sex workers infected with HIV/AIDS.
Nov 30, 2006
Sex Workers on the Front Line of Prevention
Insistence on condoms keeps HIV under control in India but clashes with U.S. funding restrictions.
Nov 30, 2006
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Nov 30, 2006
With few resources, a church named Redemption takes on poverty, hunger and other staggering causes in Haiti
\The Cité de Dieu community is one of many that have fallen off the radar screens of governmental and nongovernmental organization programs. The one organization still helping to feed the community is a neighborhood church named Redemption.
Nov 30, 2006
Condoms’ Reliability Disputed
Four U.S. agencies rate effectiveness higher than PEPFAR.
Nov 30, 2006
The Gap Between Needing and Getting Grants
Complicated funding forms in Kenya beyond the reach of illiterate caregivers.
Nov 30, 2006
A Shift in Emphasis — and Consequences
UGANDA: As Uganda lessens its promotion of condoms, early HIV achievements suffer a setback.
Nov 30, 2006
‘I really want to leave sex work. I was raped and became pregnant’
"During the day I am a member of the association and at night I am a commercial sex worker in the streets. I am not sure how old I am, but I think I am around 27," says Tigist Salomon.
Nov 30, 2006
‘The most important thing I’ve learned is the importance of being abstinent and to be faithful’
ETHIOPIA: Sixteen-year-old Yeshiwork Gashaw lives with her mother in Ethiopia's remote northeastern Amhara region. When interviewed she was taking an HIV prevention course taught by Food for the Hungry, an Arizona-based relief organization that received an $8.3 million President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) grant to teach abstinence and fidelity to young people.
Nov 30, 2006
HIV in Haiti is spread by violence – and little is done to prevent attacks
HAITI: Dieula sits in a circle of women on the tiled floor of a dimly lit room here, discussing the sexual violence that makes HIV infection an ever-present danger for Haitian women.
Nov 30, 2006
‘Violence against women in Haiti has gotten worse’
HAITI: Dr. Catherine Maternowska is an assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco in the departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and Anthropology, History and Social Medicine.
Nov 30, 2006
Modern health care groups collaborate with voodoo priests to help identify the HIV-positive
HAITI: Bresa Belizaire works out of a wood hut with a raked-dirt floor. Under a wooden chair in the corner are bottles of medicine and human bones. Belizaire is a voodoo priest, or "houngan" in Creole, in Thomonde, Haiti, an impoverished area in the center of the country.
Nov 30, 2006
Progress in Ethiopia, measured one anti-HIV pill at a time, is being made
ETHIOPIA: An estimated 130,000 adults and children died of AIDS in Ethiopia in 2005 alone. But others are surviving with the help of antiretroviral drugs -- a therapy that fights the HIV virus -- that they get through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
Nov 30, 2006
U.S. non-profit organizations’ efforts to improve conditions in Haiti encounter complications
HAITI: Project Medishare is one of many U.S. organizations working on improving the health of this community, where between 5 and 10 percent of the population is infected with HIV.
Nov 30, 2006
Once-Tamed Epidemic Reemerges
THAILAND: Condoms on the wane in Thailand, but not risky behavior.