By Mark Harrington On September 30, 2010 the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) became the first research funder to license intellectual property rights to the Medicines Patent Pool essential to manufacturing anti-HIV protease inhibitors. The patent pool is an…
By Coco Jervis and Sue Perez Over the last few years, G8 and other national leaders have lamented that health care systems in poor countries are inadequate to keep pregnant women, mothers, babies, and children healthy and that universal access…
By Richard Jefferys and Scott Morgan In July of this year, the stubborn persistence and commitment of microbicide researchers, advocates, and trial participants was finally rewarded with positive results from a South African trial of the gel form of the…
Slow Implementation for Needed Changes By Sue Perez and Coco Jervis After a century of failed efforts, decades of debate, and months of partisan rancor, this past March, Congress finally passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010…
By Scott Morgan With no end to the global funding retreat in sight, new strategies are required to change the way we provide treatment to the world's 33 million people infected with HIV. On June 7-10, the Clinton Health Access…
The Making of the HIV Research Catalyst Forum By Lei Chou and Coco Jervis Matt Sharp discusses the quest for a cure. After a five-year hiatus, NATAF (North American AIDS Treatment Action Forum), a community conference focused on HIV treatment…
By Richard Jefferys The CD4 cell count at which combination antiretroviral therapy should be started is a central, unresolved issue in the care of HIV-1-infected patients. -- When to Start Consortium, "Timing of Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy in AIDS-free HIV-1…
AIDS Drug Assistance Programs Face a Dire Situation as Waiting Lists Expand for HIV Treatment In the midst of increasing state health budget cuts and service eliminations, people living with HIV/AIDS and advocates are worried about increasing AIDS drug assistance…
“The Vancouver of Implementation Science” meets the “Fund the Fund” Demonstration at the Cape Town AIDS Conference By Mark Harrington The Difference of a Decade For anyone who had been at the Durban, South Africa, AIDS Conference in mid- 2000,…
As the health care reform debate continues, TAG line’s Tracy Swan spoke with James Braun, doctor of osteopathy, a pioneering HIV physician, about how the epidemic has changed, and how our health care system can begin to meet the…