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May 21, 2007
In Other News...
Catching up on a few items:
|| Some new reports:
The WHO reports on treatment progress worldwide.
DATA, Bono's organization, evaluates the follow-through on promises of aid to Africa. (Curious? The New York Times says it's not pretty.)
ActionAid says the world is far from on track to guaranteeing universal access to ARVs. (Reuters on the report.)
The Global Fund releases a progress report that says they've put 1 million on ARVs. (Reuters breaks it down.)
|| The Los Angeles Times continues its investigative series on the questionable investments of the Gates Foundation, which despite its humanitarian aims may have put its money into some unsavory places. This time: Warren Buffett's money may fund the janjaweed. The rest of the series.
|| One victim of the brief "D.C. madam" scandal was the head of USAID, Randall Tobias, who in his previous job as head of PEPFAR was the spokesman for the U.S. anti-prostitution, pro-abstinence and fidelity policies. John Donnelly reports on Tobias's resignation. Jodi Jacobson engages in a little schadenfreude.
|| The May/June Mother Jones has a curious if thin piece about the international black market for AIDS drugs.
|| Finally, a flap you may not have heard about at the World Bank: A high-level official allegedly ordered all references to family planning removed from a funding package to Madagascar. When family-planning and women's rights groups got wind of it they protested strongly. None other than Paul Wolfowitz stepped in to ensure the language, promoting contraception to stem the spread of HIV, stayed in place.
Posted by Adam Graham-Silverman at May 21, 2007 08:56 PM