The HIV community is bracing for impact as acrimonious federal budgetary battles rage on. by Coco Jervis The eleventh hour “fiscal cliff” deal reached by Congress and the Obama administration on New Year’s Eve leaves much to be desired. By…
The bold, aggressive new plan released by Hillary Clinton once again wildly surpasses in ambition what U.S. officials dare attempt in this country. This article was first published on December 1, 2012, in theAtlantic.com. by Mark Harrington On Thursday, outgoing…
By Coco Jervis After months of political wrangling, in early July 2012, an agreement to reduce the price of the GeneXpert MTB/RIF rapid test for tuberculosis (TB) was reached between the manufacturer, Cepheid, and pooled purchasers UNITAID, the U.S. President's Emergency…
By Colleen Daniels Tuberculosis (TB), a 40,000-year-old disease, still devastates communities although it has been preventable—and curable—for decades. In 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported 8.8 million TB cases—1.4 million of them fatal—worldwide. TB is the leading cause of…
By Erica Lessem This summer, Treatment Action Group (TAG) and its partners in fighting tuberculosis (TB) issued a call for zero TB deaths, zero new TB infections, and zero suffering from TB. Yet the U.S., long a leader in TB…
By Richard Jefferys At the recent International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. (AIDS 2012), the research effort to develop a cure for HIV infection attained a higher profile than it ever has in the past. At a press conference on…
Existing treatment and prevention techniques could prevent millions of new HIV infections and deaths from AIDS—but only if Obama sustains funding. By Mark Harrington This article was first published on 24 July 2012 in theAtlantic.com. Four years ago, President Obama's…
Before the Discovery of HAART By Mark Harrington And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. —Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”[i] This is the second in…