Press Releases

According to a special new issue of the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, new science can dramatically change the trajectory of both HIV/AIDS and TB epidemics.  Breakthroughs on the horizon include novel TB drugs in the pipeline that offer the hope of a safer and faster cure, and bold HIV prevention approaches that include using antiretroviral agents as prophylactics to prevent against HIV infection.

Urgent U.S. action is required to address massive gaps in our ability to measure, treat, and prevent virulent new strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis, according to a new issue brief from the Center for Global Health Policy.

Disease Experts Welcome Modest Increases for PEPFAR, Bilateral TB, But Say It’s Not Enough to Combat These Deadly

Nearly 1,500 leading physicians, nurses, and public health experts have joined together to urge Ugandan political leaders to reject the Anti-Homosexuality Bill under consideration in that country’s Parliament.  

A new study suggests that halting breastfeeding early causes more harm than good for children not infected with HIV who are born to HIV-positive mothers. Stopping breastfeeding before 18 months was associated with significant increases in mortality among these children, according to the study in the Feb. 1, 2010 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.

A new issue brief released today by the Center for Global Health Policy and amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, highlights the transformative success of the global AIDS response in changing the trajectory of the epidemic and improving health outcomes beyond AIDS.

New commentary in CID says that arguments promoting a shift in U.S. global health resources toward more “cost-effective” interventions to address childhood diarrhea and other diseases—at the expense of continued expansion of efforts to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic—discount issues of context and could have devastating consequences.

In advance of World AIDS Day, HIV/AIDS doctors and researchers said the Obama Administration’s five-year global AIDS strategy needs to set out aggressive new treatment and prevention targets for PEPFAR, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, and should include robust funding levels to combat the global pandemic.

The Obama Administration announced today that it has lifted the ban on travel and immigration to the U.S. by HIV-positive individuals.

The Center for Global Health Policy joined with a coalition of other organizations in calling for PEPFAR to reach 6 million people with antiretroviral drugs by 2013 and 7 million by 2014

Washington, D.C. —Two of the U.S. government’s top infectious disease specialists will join with renowned South African physician Robin Wood for a live interactive webcast on the threat of TB in the developing world and the U.S. response to it, including the status of a Congressionally mandated five-year global TB strategy.

Infectious Disease News, August 2009.

IDSA, HIVMA and the Center for Global Health Policy strongly urge the House of Representatives to fully repeal the ban on federal funding for needle exchange programs.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America, the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA), and the Center for Global Health Policy strongly support the Obama administration’s move to lift the two-decades-old ban on travel and immigration to the U.S. by HIV-positive individuals.

Leading disease experts today called on President Obama and Congress to mount a concerted and comprehensive response to the deadly alliance between HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. The call to action from America’s top HIV/TB scientists and physicians comes in the wake of a new report, “Deadly Duo: The Synergy Between HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis,” from the Center for Global Health Policy, released at a Capitol Hill briefing today.

The Center for Global Health Policy and the HIV Medicine Association applauded today’s Senate confirmation of Eric Goosby, MD, to lead the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC).

Leading disease experts will call on President Obama and Congress to mount a concerted and comprehensive response to the deadly alliance between HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis at a Congressional briefing on June 25. 

The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA), and the IDSA/HIVMA Center for Global Health Policy applaud President Barack Obama for his appointment of Thomas Frieden, MD, as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

WASHINGTON - The World Health Organization released staggering new data about the threat of tuberculosis and the toll it takes on people with HIV/AIDS today, in recognition of World TB Day.

Leading disease experts, including the NIH’s Anthony Fauci, to discuss promising scientific advances and untapped opportunities in AIDS research at an April 30th congressional briefing.