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Michael Campbell, 58, receives his daily dose of medication for AIDS at Broadway House for Continuing care

How a New HIV Medicine Reduced Carbon Emissions

by Vincent Bretin

The HIV medication dolutegravir is lowering the health sector's carbon footprint across several countries

Governance
A participant with a red ribbon pin observes a minute of silence during a HIV/AIDS awareness campaign.

The PEPFAR Files: How Critics Put the HIV Program at Risk

by Emily Bass

Over the program's 21-year history, its essential components were either critiqued or glossed over, hurting its survival

School girls light candles in the shape of a ribbon during a HIV/AIDS awareness campaign ahead of World Aids Day, in Ahmedabad, India November 30, 2016.
Governance

The PEPFAR Files: Who Tried to End the Lifesaving HIV Program?

by Emily Bass

The first in a three-part series explores why the popular global health program is under threat

Marie Marcelle Deschamps is seen with a group of children in Haiti, in 2021.
Poverty

Why I Stay: Haiti's Fight for Health Care

by Marie-Marcelle Deschamps

GHESKIO, a long-standing health organization, continues the battle to provide care amid disasters and violence in Haiti

People take balloons before a march ahead of World AIDS Day 2013 at Kandawgyi garden in Yangon November 30, 2013. About one thousand people, including HIV/Aids patients, attended the event.
Governance

PEPFAR HIV Program Gets Yearlong Lifeline: What's Next?

by Jirair Ratevosian

PEPFAR's former chief of staff describes why its latest reauthorization still spells uncertainty for the program

An AIDS ribbon hangs from the North Portico of the White House.
Governance

Retreat from Global HIV Fight Puts U.S. Health At Risk

by Ashwin Vasan

With news that HIV/AIDS funding is stalled, Congress should remember the AIDS epidemic and commit to funding PEPFAR

Community worker Grace Angoni sings with children at the Chifundo orphan care center in Blantyre.
Governance

Ending AIDS by Elevating Subnational Governance in Malawi

by Sara Allinder

How the Blantyre Prevention Strategy has addressed gaps in HIV-prevention responses in Malawi’s second-largest district

a man stands in a field
Aging

Rethinking HIV in an Aging Society

by Caroline Diamond, Jonathan Cohen

Central to supporting elderly communities is providing people living with HIV better integrated primary care

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

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

by Karl Hofmann

The bipartisan importance of PEPFAR

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.
Governance

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