August 2008

17th International AIDS Conference
Mexico City, Mexico
August 3-8

Altman, Lawrence K. "H.I.V. Study Finds Rate 40% Higher Than Estimated." New York Times. 3 Aug. 2008.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/health/03aids.html

Altman, Lawrence K. "Seeking Better Laws on H.I.V." New York Times. 8 Aug. 2008.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/health/09aids.html

Altman, Lawrence K. "AIDS Group Cites Rapes in Zimbabwe as Terror Tool." New York Times. 7 Aug. 2008.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/world/africa/08aids.html

Altman, Lawrence K. "New Focus on Children at AIDS Seminar." New York Times. 6 Aug. 2008.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/07/health/07aids.html

Altman, Lawrence K. "Behavioral Approaches Overlooked in AIDS Fight." New York Times. 6 Aug. 2008.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/health/research/06aids.html

Altman, Lawrence K. "U.S. Blacks, if a Nation, Would Rank High on AIDS." New York Times. 30 July 2008.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/health/research/30aids.html

Benequista, Nicholas. "Bush OKs $48 Billion for AIDS as Famine Looms." Christian Science Monitor. 31 July 2008.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0731/p01s04-woaf.html

Brown, David. "Antibodies May Lead to Protection Against HIV." Washington Post. 8 Aug. 2008.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/07/AR2008080703223.html

Lacey, Mark. "Vulnerable to H.I.V., Resistant to Labels." New York Times. 6 Aug. 2008.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/07/world/americas/07mexico.html

Lacey Mark and Lawrence K. Altman. "Advocates Share Ideas in Teaching About AIDS." New York Times. 9 Aug. 2008.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/world/americas/10aids.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Lloyd, Marion. "AIDS Stigma Rampant in Mexico: World conference highlights patients who report discrimination from doctors. Houston Chronicle. 2 Aug. 2008.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/health/5921379.html

Sinha, Kounteya. "India's fight against AIDS to focus on gays." India Times. 7 Aug. 2008.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Rest_of_World/Indias_fight_against_AIDS_to_focus_on_gays/articleshow/3335285.cms

Watson, Julie, Associated Press. "Activists, UN Want HIV Travel Restrictions Erased." Houston Chronicle. 5 Aug. 2008.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/5925859.html

Watson, Jule, Associated Press. "HIV-Positive Migrants at Mexico City AIDS Conference Accuse U.S. of Neglect." The Northern Light. 4 Aug. 2008.
http://thenorthernlight.canadaeast.com/article/374536

July 2008

Stolberg, Sherly Gay. "Bush Asks for Help, Abroad and at Home, in Sending Aid to Africa." The New York Times. 3 July 2008.

Bearrak, Barry and Celia W. Dugger. "Assassins in Zimbabwe Aim at the Grassroots." The New York Times. 22 June 2008.

Jordans, Frank. "WHO: New quick TB test rolled out in Africa." Associated Press. 1 July 2008.

Associated Press. "South Africa: Protests by TB patients." The New York Times. 28 June 2008.

April 2008

America has health-care caste system
Do we have what it takes to change health care?
World Bank puts in a good word for Africa
W orld Bank calls on sovereign funds to invest in Africa
Common Wealth

February 2008

Latin American Experiment in Pakistan

Nigeria: Federal Universities Get $180m World Bank Grants

Britain Urges World Bank Reform

Dirty Words in Healthcare

The Truth about Nationalized Healthcare

The State of the Union and the Davos Forum

Zambia: World Bank Chief Zoellick to visit country

Job Creation in Malawi: A Challenge for All

Research and sustainable development

World Bank to carry out 150 million power generation project in Belarus

World Bank Urges Counter Opium Measures

Country to Benefit from World Bank 15 million dollar project

World bank sees Mozambique AIDS spread threat

To save a forest: World's Eyes grand plan of payoffs to preserve trees, protect climate.

World growth to drop by 1/5th but no US recession

Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS in sub-saharan Africa

Dominican officials expected to announce new IMF pact this week

Europe lacks scope to revive economy

The Wages of Hillary Care

A Matter of Economics

Rich countries are buying up companies around the world - why aren't we?

SWFs vs. IMFs

Save the DARFUR Puppy

Jamaican Government begins plan against HIV

Needle Exchange Pilot in N.J.

600,000 HIV Positive

Americans react to Swiss claims about antiretroviral medicine.

HIV-Positive Teachers In Kenya's Central Province Develop Program To Fight Virus Among Teachers, Students

US Scientists learn how HIV hides in body

Patient in Finland gets a new jaw made from his own stem cells

Health coverage trend is hurting Americans

NAFTA: Two Mexicos, Two Outcomes

Chomsky: Poorer Countries Find a Way to Escape U.S. Dominance

Check this Organization: FreePlay

Education is development

Structurally Adjusting the IMF

IMF Chief warns of world impact on American slowdown

Fading the IMF

Brown says radical changes needed to IMF and World Bank

IMF warning for developing world

Poll: U.S. Split On Socialized Medicine

Is Healthcare a Right or a Privilege?

Malawi president denies crisis on maize stocks

January 2008

Expenditure Ceilings

Fiscal Space

Socioeconomic Obstacles

Survey of the IMF Impact

Role of the World Bank in Public Health

More From Siamak

"Finally, I would urge you guys as a club to integrate some debt relief
activism into your club activities. If you have some resistance among the
members, you can just do something simple like have people write letters
to congress during one of your meetings. For more info on World Bank/IMF
and things you can do:
http://www.50years.org/
http://www.jubileeusa.org/
http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk/
http://www.jubileeresearch.org/"

PIH Symposium from last October

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Donald S. Burke, MD, Dean of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Health Blog

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AIDS in Africa - Three Scenarios to 2025 Executive Summary

AIDS in Africa - Three Scenarios to 2025 Report

An Agenda for Action on Women and AIDS

Blood Transfusion in China

Church and HIV in South America

Education and HIV/AIDS -A Window of Hope

Estimating the Size of Populations with HIV

Farmer - Challenging Orthodoxies in health and Human Rights

Feasibility of HIV Vaccine

Global Health Advocacy Manual

Global Price Reporting Mechanism for ARVs

A Time for action

A Quarter Century of AIDS

AIDS Epidemic Update - 2005

2006 Global Report on AIDS - Treatment

Advocacy guide HIV Prevention

Global Task Team

Guidance on Ethics and Equitable Access to HIV Treatment and Care

Guide to Health Workforce Development in Post-Conflict Environments

Guidelines for Implementing TB-HIV strategies

Guidelines on Construction of Core Indicators

HIVAIDS Surveillance Report for Africa - 2005

Human development index 2006

Human poverty index 2006

Human poverty index 2006 (developed countries)

Intensifying HIV Prevention

International AIDS Meeting Finds Global Commitment Lacking

Keynote Speaker by Plot

Lessons from Indonesia

UNICEF's State of the World's Chidren report

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AMSA - Global Link

How Kenya came undone

Rural neglect to blame for conflict in Kenya

Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts

SMEs Warned On HIV/Aids

Achieving Power All Day, Everyday

Kenya's Dependency On Donor Funding Affecting Fight Against HIV/AIDS, NGO Consortium Head Says

A Harvest Of Good Sense

Britain overtakes U.S. as top world bank donor

HIV-Positive Children In Developing Countries Need Access To Pneumococcal Vaccines, Opinion Piece Says

All-nighters may hurt grades

Frustration with UN and aid agencies grows in Congo

Surgery and Pills Couldn't Help Me

EMERGENCY: Inside the centre where one mum dies giving birth each week

Invest in Women - It Pays

Lesotho's club for job-seekers with HIV

Slum-Dwellers Hit Hard By Post-Election Crisis

Aging AIDS patients beset by complex health problems

U.S. considering new covert push within Pakistan

Rapid, opt-out HIV testing accepted by over 99% of women in an urban Malawi program

Malawi to raise pay of civil servants with HIV

In Global Battle on AIDS, Bush Creates Legacy

CHALLENGES 2007-2008: Brazil Seeks Formula for Continued Growth

US to send investigators to Sudan

'HIV and Aids epidemic affecting Swaziland's population'

Humanizing revolution

Malawi signs UN deal to strengthen rural masses

New HIV Cases Increasing Among Young MSM In New York City Despite Drop In Overall New Cases, New York Times Reports

JAG Says White Farmers Under Intense Pressure to Leave Farms

Mercosur Limps Slowly Along

Bush Signs $555B Spending Bill, Lifts Ban On Funding Of Needle-Exchange Programs In Washington, D.C.

This is No Time to Suspend Aid

HIV/AIDS In Developing Countries Requires 'Continued Attention,' But Other Public Health Needs Should Not Be 'Ignored,' Opinion Piece Says

Kenya's National AIDS Control Council Says That Recent Violence, Sexual Assaults Will Reverse Gains Made Against HIV/AIDS

Saudi Arabian Human Rights Society Calls On HIV-Positive People To Report Discrimination

It's Not Looking Good

Indian Railways Considers Offering Fare Concessions To HIV-Positive People To Facilitate Travel To NACO Treatment Centers

Kenya's humanitarian crisis grows

Mauritian cyber island dream

Vermont Department Of Health Announces Increase In Syphilis Cases, Could Contribute To Spread Of HIV

Long-term HIV and Aids survivors' health 'worrying'

Gender Violence Haunts HIV Positive Women

Fear, Stigma Undermine Fight Against Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission's

Hat's off to pupils helping in Malawi

Water harvest project brings hope to farmers

France best, U.S. worst in preventable death ranking

Traditional Healers Drilled on HIV/AIDS

UN Backs Scheme to Help Rural Poor Participate in Liberalized Market

The Men who Live Forever

A new book -- titled "Teenagers, HIV and AIDS" -- examines the experiences of children

We Have to Suspend Drug Copyright Rules to Save Lives

From Malawi to Texas a World of Possibility

BET Special on AIDS

Leavitt visits Indian facilities that provide HIV and Aids care, treatment

Zimbabwe to pay Malawi $94 million for maize

In Global Battle on AIDS, Bush Creates Legacy

Hewko to visit Malawi to launch discussions on developing MCC Compact

Zim running out of medicine: report

Is there any development in Malawi

Unsung victims of dollar diplomacy

Malawi Police Fire Warning Shot

Malawi University Students join war on Child Labor

Global child mortality is halved

Paraguay nominated woman for president

British Prime Minister calls for UN and World Bank Reform

New HIV Drug Sanctioned When Others Fail

Fruit trees Planted in Malawi thanks to aluminium recycling

Death Stalks A Continent

Malawi Launched Hunger Free Campaign

Malawi girls, women exchange sex for fish

A Place Called Chiapas

December 2007

Ghana: More HIV/Aids Orphans Are Homeless

Uganda: Govt Condones Sexual Violence, Says Group

Uganda: Women Remain At Greater Risk of HIV Infection

In India's north, the worst place to be born a girl

Namibia: Musicians Fight Aids

In Chávez territory, signs of dissent

If you're reading this, you're one of the few

Castro says he warned Chavez about US

Gambia: Bursting the Medical Myth - The President's Aids Cure Debate

GMB Receives 67 000 Tonnes of Maize From Malawi

Why Is Cancer Worse for Minorities?

U.N. Special Envoy For HIV/AIDS In Africa Mataka Urges Women To Address Cultural Practices That Fuel Spread Of Disease

Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts CELIA W. DUGGER

Novmeber 2007

Council Aims to Grow 85,00 Trees in Malawi - Sheila Murray

Orapa sees "significant" uranium exploration in Malawi - Olivia Spadavecchia

Venezuelans struggle to find food - Ian James

Which Way for Malawi, Africa? - Clifton Kawanga

Uganda summit marred by clashes

My point of view - What is right about Malawi today? - Michael Jana

Mbeki upbeat after Zimbabwe talks

Sudanese 'to disarm Darfur camp

UN Slashes Global Aids Estimates - Tamar Kahn

The Continent's Marshal Plan

Despite New Figures, Aids Funding Doesn't Meet Needs - Stephen Lewis

Banks Run Out of Notes

Outcry at Tanzania HIV beating

SA's HIV/Aids fight 'mismanaged'

How does Aids affect teaching?

Africa: UK Doubles Funding for Continent

Kenya: More Deaths, Displacement Reported in Mt Elgon

Botswana: It's Not All Bleak

Kenya: TB to Be Declared National Disaster

Kenya: Aids Orphans Still Out of School

Africa: New UN Manual Launched to Help Vulnerable Rural Youth

Nigeria: HIV 'Cure' Doctor Sues Science Academy

Zambia: Taking HIV/Aids Head On - Maureen, Mataka Step Up Fight

Nigeria: HIV/Aids Vaccine Ready Soon - AAVP

CDC: U.S. obesity rates leveling off

Rwanda: Draw Circumcision Plans, U.S. Tells Govts

Uganda: 500 Couples Test for HIV/Aids

Starbucks to open farmer support center in Ethiopia

Clinton To Release HIV/AIDS Policy

Chavez seeks expanded power in charter

Chad rebels warn EU peace force

UNAIDS' HIV/AIDS Estimates For Russia 'Exaggerated,' Country's Top Health Official Says

State gives extra R87m to the poor

SLIM’s Success: Pitt Students Helping to Improve Health Care in Malawi - Pitt Chronicle

South Darfur Ousts UN Humanitarian Chief - Edith M. Lederer

CRWRC Receives $1.5 Million to Fight Malaria - Henry Hess

Malawian Officials Refute Corruption Findings - Lameck Masina

Women trade sex for drugs, with AIDS the result - Jonathan Bor

Failure of AIDS shot linked to cold virus - Craig Timberg

Child trafficking study in Malawi - AFP

Pitt receives $4.8M to study racial disparity in health care - David Templeton

The Mobile Web and Compulsory HIV Test for Malawi - Victor Kaonga

If we fail to act - Paul Farmer

ECUH-Recycling grows fruit trees/Malawi

Miracle Doc - Licia Corbella

WFP buys 35,926 tonnes Malawi white maize for Zimbabwe

Irish funding fertilises Malawian tree project - Charles Mkoka

We had to do something... - Elaine Bowers

Is a green revolution finally blooming in Africa - David Biello

Zimbabweans flooding into Malawi impacts negatively - Mabuchi Ngwira

VMware’s academic program gains traction - Tim Wilson

LOTHIANS police officers raised more than £8000 for a hospital in Malawi by cycling to Paris.

Purging Malawi's peanuts of deadly aflatoxin - Charles Mkoka

The United States, Bolivia, and Dependency - Stephen Zunes

Clinton's Lack of Respect for Latin America - Tom Berry

NAFTA, Inequality and Immigration - Laura Carlsen

Material Girl is "Like the Virgin" In Malawi

Malawi Political and Economic Update

The Survivors; Students of Zimbabwe

Malawi: Mutharika “shuts down” Parliament

‘Malawians not living on one dollar per day’

TB in Zimbabwe: A silent explosion propelled by HIV

Malawi media shamed of corruption

Group criticises Malawi government on procurement of drugs

Malawi Appeals to health workers to come home

October, 2007

Young Children, HIV/AIDS, and Gender: A Summary Review
Authors: D. Bhana; F.F. Brixen; G. MacNaughton; R. Zimmerman.

Promoting Young People's Sexual Health
Editors: Roger Ingham and Peter Aggleton. Publisher: Routledge.

Vaccine-linked polio hits Nigeria

Campaigners attack UK over AIDS funding
Sarah Boseley

Fear of Morphine Dooms Third World Poor to Die Painfully
Donald G. McNeil

Through the Forest, a Clearer View of the Needs of a People
Christie Aschwanden

WHO Confirms 8 more Ebola cases in Congo
The Associated Press

Pledges to Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Fall Short of Goal
Donald G. McNeil

In Congo, an Epidemic of Rape
Jeffery Gettleman

$188 Laptop Faces Production Delay, Shortage

A crucifix on his neck, monk escapes Myanmar
Thomas Fuller International Herald Tribune

New Malawi food security program approved
Nagasa Times - Judith Moyo

Clinton Signs Pledge To Commit To Fight Against HIV/AIDS

September, 2007

(article) How to stop AIDS now - August 20, 2007: Caiti Schroering

(article) Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge loses Job- September 7, 2007: Michael Wines

(article) Sudan agrees to talks with Darfur rebels - September 6, 2007: Warren Hodge

(article) Child Abuse in Sub-Saharan Africa - December 1, 2006: Sharon LeFraniere

July, 2007

(article) Students called to global service. - June 4, 2007 - The Boston Globe - John Donnelly
(book) Infections and Inequalities - 2001 - Paul Farmer
(book) The Uses of Haiti - 2005 - Paul Farmer, Noam Chomsky
(book) AIDS and Accusations - 2003 - Paul Farmer
(book) Women, Poverty and AIDS - 1996 - Paul Farmer
(book) Banker to the Poor - 2003 - Muhammad Yunus

March, 2007

(article) Major hospitals cancel surgeries in Ethiopian capital - Mar.19, 2007 - EthioMedia
(article) Ethiopia's Prime Minister: "We don't need doctors" - Mar. 7, 2007 - EthioMedia - Andy Media
(article) Buy a red T-shrit to fight AIDS. But does it really help? - Mar. 12, 2007 - Christian Science Monitor - Ben Arnoldy
(journal) Global Pulse
(journal) Next Generation - An Introduction to Medicine
(article) "A surprising finding on breast-feeding by mothers with HIV" - Feb. 27, 2007 - Lawrence K. Altman
(article) "In Africa, a problem with circumcision and AIDS" - Feb. 27, 2007 - Elisabeth Rosenthal
(article) "A cheaper, easier malaria pill" - Mar. 1, 2007 - IHT - Donald G. McNeil Jr.
(article) "2 new drugs approach fighting AIDS virus in novel ways" - Feb. 28, 2007 - IHT - Lawrence K. Altman and Andrew Pollack
(article) "Most Support U.S. Guarantee of Health Care" - Mar. 2, 2007 - NY Times - Robin Toner and Janet Elder

February, 2007

(article) "In the world of life-saving drugs, deadly fakes" - Feb. 19, 2007 - IHT - Donald G. Mcneil Jr.
(article) "North Africa Feared as Staging Ground for Terror" - Feb. 20, 2007 - NYTimes - Craig S. Smith
(article) China detains AIDS campaigner - Feb. 5, 2007 - IHT - Jim Yardley
(journal) Global Pulse (AMSA's international health journal). Spring 2007 issue is available here. (.pdf)
(article) "Who Pays to Stop a Pandemic?" - Feb. 9, 2007 - NYTimes - Ruth R. Faden, Patrick S. Duggan and Ruth Karron
(article) "Tests of drug to block HIV infection are halted over safety" - Feb. 1, 2007. - IHT - Lawrence K. Altman
(article) "Virulent TB in South Africa may imperil millions, experts warn" - Jan. 28, 2007 - IHT - Michael Wines

January, 2007

(article) "U.S. seeks UN stand on Myanmar". - January 10, 2007 - International Herald Tribune
(article) "Students Travel to Dominican Republic to build and teach". - January 18, 2007 - The Pitt News - Beth Oberleiter
(article) "Endgame in Africa" - Nov/Dec, 2006 - Men's Vogue - Jonathan Foreman
(article) "Dark cloud over good works of Gates Foundation" - January 7, 2007 - LA Times - Charles Pillar, Edmund Sanders
(film) "Darfur Diaries: Message from Home" - 2004
(article) "The Doctors of Chaos" - September, 2006 - Men's Health - Bob Drury
(book) Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival - 2006 - Marlowe, Aisha Bain, Adam Shapiro, and Paul Rusesabagina
(article) "Inside Abbott's Tactics To Protect AIDS Drug" - 2007 - The Wall Street Journal - John Carreyrou
(book) Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - 1997 - Richard P. Feynman
(website) Harvard World Health News

University of Pittsburgh

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