A mix of domestic revenue generation, efficiency gains and strategic partnerships is essential to sustain and expand HIV programmes despite declining external aid.
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The America First Global Health Strategy aims to secure US interests but may instead undermine it by design.
Withdrawing or reducing aid has immediate and often fatal effects − not only for the countries receiving aid but for people around the globe.
Millions of people worldwide are likely to lose access to anti HIV drugs, and thousands more people could die, after the US cut project funding.
Pepfar, a global initiative to fight HIV/Aids, has saved millions of lives since its launch in 2003. Now its future is uncertain.
The U.S. funded HIV/AIDS program PEPFAR has saved over 25 million lives since it began in 2003.
Foreign aid has helped, but it leaves African countries vulnerable to the political mood swings of funders.
The consequences of a U.S. retreat from the global response to HIV/AIDS would be immense, jeopardizing 40 years of progress.
US withdrawal from the WHO and of all foreign aid will have dire consequences for Africa. It’s time the continent took responsibility for its own people.
The US PEPFAR initiative has brought HIV medication to millions of people globally. Behind this progress are the activists that pressured politicians and companies to put patients over patents.
Despite America’s deep divisions, the electioneering showed democracy’s resilience. This should be a boost for democracy advocates across Africa.
Fauci turns 80 this Dec. 24 – and he’s been on the national stage for decades. Here’s more about his work before COVID-19 and why he was perfectly poised to help the US respond to the pandemic.
Remarkable progress is being made on HIV treatment. But African countries need to work on sustainable ways to ensure the treatment programmes are not entirely dependent on foreign aid.
Under the Trump administration Africa is only likely to matter in the fight against terrorism and in providing American companies with economic opportunities.
All recent Republican presidents have cut off foreign aid tied to abortion. Trump’s expansive version of those restrictions endangers billions slated for HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.
The proposed foreign aid cuts by US President Donald Trump will have a devastating impact on healthcare in Africa.
The call to action to address childhood vulnerability in Africa must go far beyond the 17.8 million children infected and affected by HIV.
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Assitant Professor of Global Health, Boston University
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Professor of Practice in International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria., University of Pretoria
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Dornsife Endowed Professor of Global Health, Drexel University
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University
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Health Systems Researcher, Makerere University
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Doctoral Researcher, School of Public Health and Public Health Technical Advisor, Anova Health Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences and of Humanities in Medicine, Texas A&M University
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of History, Florida International University
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Executive Director, African Population and Health Research Center
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Postdoctoral research fellow, African Studies Program, McGill University
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Professor in Global Health Infection and Immunity. and co-Director of the Global Health Academy, University of Edinburgh
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Assistant Professor, Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba
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Professor of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba