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People walk past a bus during an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign on the occasion of World AIDS Day in Abuja, Nigeria, December 1, 2018.

PEPFAR, Politics, and PSI: An Implementer’s Perspective

by Karl Hofmann

The bipartisan importance of PEPFAR

Governance
U.S. Global Aids Coordinator and Special Representative for Health Diplomacy Ambassador John Nkengasong delivers remarks at the launch of the Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy at the State Department in Washington, U.S., August 1, 2023.

Inside the New Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy

An interview with Ambassador-at-Large John Nkengasong

Activists and patients living with HIV, tuberculosis and viral hepatitis attend a rally "Ukraine Under Quarantine" in Kiev November 13, 2012.
Migration

Eastern Europe’s Looming Health Crisis

by Sarah Weber

HIV is the European public health crisis the world isn’t watching

Ashley Karungi 33, a member of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTQ) community and a single mother of two poses for a picture with rainbow colours at the offices of Rella Women's Empowerment Program, for LGBTQ rights advocacy, after a Reuters interview in Kulambiro suburb of Kampala, Uganda April 4, 2023.
Gender

LGBTQI+ People Need a Permanent End to the Global Gag Rule

by Beirne Roose-Snyder

The Global Gag Rule disrupts health services and relationships for LGBTQI+ people and harms LGBTQI+ rights globally

A health worker sits outside a makeshift camp for blood tests on the outskirts of Kolkata, India, on November 30, 2006
Gender

Addressing Contraceptive Needs for Women Living With HIV

by Preetika Banerjee, Ipsita Bhattacharjee, Shalini Singh

How community health workers can help promote choice in reproductive health care

Naveed Ahmed, a doctor, gives medical assistance to Hameeda, who is suffering from malaria, at Sayed Abdullah Shah Institute of Medical Sciences in Sehwan, Pakistan, on September 29, 2022.
Governance

COVID-19 Fueled Record-Breaking Investments in Global Health

by Kevin O’Rourke, Angela E. Micah, Joseph L. Dieleman

Examining opportunities and challenges related to development spending

Former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela—wearing a white t-shirt with HIV POSITIVE in purple printed on the front—visits the township of Khayelitsha in Western Cape, South Africa. Photo by Media24/Gallo Images/Getty Images
Governance

In South Africa, Much More Than an Investment in HIV

Quarraisha Abdool Karim, UNAIDS special ambassador for adolescents and HIV, on "building one house" for health

An audience member holds up a "Fund PEPFAR" sign, during President Barack Obama's speech at a campaign event at Herman Park in Boone, Iowa, on August 13, 2012.
Governance

PEPFAR in a Global Democratic Recession

by Mark P. Lagon

At age twenty, PEPFAR's continued success depends on weathering an illiberal wave worldwide

US President George W. Bush speaks on the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief as Bishop Paul Yowakim looks on 30 May 2007 in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC.
Environment

PEPFAR Meets Climate Change

by David P. Fidler

Another president's emergency plan for another global health crisis

a red ribbon marks World AIDS Day on the North Portico of the White House
Governance

PEPFAR's Twentieth Anniversary Might Be Its Last

by Emily Bass

Proposed changes to the mold-breaking program could break it for good

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Governance

Tremendous Progress in U.S. Children Born With HIV Shadows Work Needed Globally

An interview with global pediatric HIV/AIDS physician Heather Haq

A close-upu image of a nine-year-old boy's hands holding antiretroviral (ARV) pills prescribed for HIV infection at Nkosi's Haven, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Governance

Why Global Health Remains Bipartisan

by Chris Collins

It has proven to be "a good investment with astonishing results in saving lives"

A tuberculosis patient holds his medicines received from the government's tuberculosis center in Rawalpindi, Pakistan July 11, 2016. The pink pills are sealed in rows of green packaging with gold foil on the back that gives the name and dosage of the drug.
Poverty

Tackling Tuberculosis with Strategic Health Diplomacy

by Rachel Sadoff

Cutting drug prices for tuberculosis holds diplomatic, humanitarian, and economic promise

An activist of the All-Ukrainian Network of People Living With HIV/AIDS, a non-governmental group, holds an empty package of the drug Aluvia, as she takes part in a rally in front of the Ukrainian cabinet of ministers building in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 1, 2015.
Governance

War Threatens Ukraine's Progress Curbing HIV/AIDS

by Spencer Feingold

Russia's invasion is keeping lifesaving medication out of the hands of Ukrainians living with HIV