Category: Expert Column
38 Articles
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More or the same? Reflecting on debates around the Global Fund’s mandate
Mara Pillinger, Former Senior Associate Last week, the Global Fund met its replenishment target of $14B. The news was greeted mostly with sighs of relief, especially because it…
October 18, 2019
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Migrants’ Access to Healthcare: Data Wanted
Mara Pillinger, Former Senior Associate Countries’ obligations to respond to the health needs of migrants (including regular and irregular migrants, refugees, and asylum)…
September 27, 2019
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Beyond Disease: New Study Shows Global Fund Improves Governance and Health
Matthew M. Kavanagh, Director New research shows that international aid from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria goes beyond battling disease and is linked to…
May 13, 2019
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We need new laws: new report shows the nature of coercion and criminalization in TB-related laws
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October 9, 2018
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Getting to the roots of TB: The promise of health equity programs of action
Eric A. Friedman, Global Health Justice Scholar Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease of, above all, the people whom society has marginalized. Certainly everyone is at risk, and…
September 28, 2018
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The UN High-Level Meeting on TB: An Opportunity for States to Implement Rights-Based Approaches to TB?
Drew Aiken Yesterday was the first-ever UN High Level Meeting on Tuberculosis. After much build-up, advocacy, and negotiation throughout the last year, the Political…
September 27, 2018
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Who Will Lead the TB Response?
John Stephens “We will have to put poor people from affected communities at the centre of our response. We will have to organise and mobilise. And then be willing to hold our…
April 30, 2018
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Complexity, Politics, and Global HIV in 2018
Matthew M. Kavanagh, Director This World AIDS Day the world is facing perhaps the most complex political and epidemiologic environment in the history of the global AIDS pandemic.…
November 30, 2017