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Kruish Mubiru, executive director of an HIV/Aids NGO in Uganda, in its empty facilities in Kampala. The Pepfar fund cuts have crippled the organisation. Getty Images

Pepfar funding to fight HIV/Aids has saved 26 million lives since 2003: how cutting it will hurt Africa

Eric Friedman, Georgetown University; Lawrence O. Gostin, Georgetown University, and Sarah Wetter, Georgetown University

Pepfar, a global initiative to fight HIV/Aids, has saved millions of lives since its launch in 2003. Now its future is uncertain.
A prisoner looks out a window on March 26, 2015, from Zhdanivskaya prison in Ukraine, were TB is rampant. AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov

Why community and not confinement will end TB

Eric Friedman, Georgetown University and Drew Aiken, Georgetown University

World TB Day will be observed March 24, with the good news that deaths from tuberculosis are declining. But a trend toward confining those with TB threatens to stall advances.

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