An Unfinished Agenda – by Rifat Atun, Shaloo Puri and Gabriel Seidman
The HIV epidemic is still very much an unfinished agenda. Despite remarkable progress, a staggering 35 million individuals lived with HIV in 2013. With the advent of Antiretroviral Treatment (ART), HIV...
View ArticleFrom Death Sentence to Debt Sentence – by Marina Galanti
HIV liabilities in sub-Saharan Africa to exceed $250 billion Debt in Africa recently hit global headlines. The Overseas Development Initiative warned that the recent surge in foreign debt issuance had...
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Producing Public Super-Goods through Co-financing – by Michelle Remme
The global development agenda is shifting. There were three health goals in the 8 Millennium Development Goals that served as a guiding priority framework for the past 15 years. Fighting HIV, TB and...
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Acting Boldly on HIV/AIDS – by Mthuli Ncube
Kenya’s HIV/AIDS 2015 conference, Maisha 2015 (meaning life in Swahili), in which I gave a Keynote Address, highlighted the knowledge and advocacy resources that have been mobilized by the country to...
View ArticleChanging Landscapes in HIV: Curves and Transitions – by Alan Whiteside and...
The world of HIV and AIDS has changed significantly in the past five years and will continue to do so. This is because the disease can now be controlled with treatment. Drugs mean people can live...
View ArticleRethinking country classification to increase health resource flows – Mthuli...
Africa has experienced almost uninterrupted real growth in the last decade, averaging 5% per annum, and is predicted to continue this trend over the next decade. Growth rates for sub-Saharan Africa are...
View ArticleBenefits of Schooling as HIV Investment – Vassall, Remme, Watts
In a letter to the Lancet Global Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine researchers Professor Charlotte Watts, Dr. Anna Vassall and Michelle Remme write that secondary schooling...
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RethinkHIV Researcher Joins Global Call for Universal Health Coverage
RethinkHIV researcher Dr. Anna Vassall of London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is a signatory of a full-page advertisement in the New York Times with 266 other economists calling for...
View ArticlePie In The Sky: Show Me The money! By Mthuli Ncube
The launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the successor to the MDGs, last week in New York, marks yet another milestone in committing global leadership to the development agenda. I...
View ArticleUniversal access to HIV treatment: fiscal sustainability and incentives. By...
Before the advent of anti-retroviral therapies in the nineties, being infected by the HIV virus was equivalent to a death sentence. Now, thanks to remarkable advances in medical research, people who...
View ArticleFuture Financing of Health in Africa by Mthuli Ncube
The economic case for investing now and how to create alternative sources of funding. I attended and presented at the CABRI Conference on Financing Healthcare in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities,...
View ArticleTHE FUTURE OF HIV FINANCING: Is HIV special? by Mthuli Ncube
The Oil price is hovering about $40 a barrel, having dropped from a high of $100 two years ago. This aptly paints a picture of the end of the commodity super-cycle. Other commodity prices such as...
View ArticleReThinking Barriers to Accessing Antiretroviral Therapy: From Finance to...
Despite the availability of free, effective treatment for HIV, more thanone million people die of AIDS every year in sub-Saharan Africa. Increasing antiretroviral treatment coverage is a necessity,...
View ArticleContingent Innovative Finance for Economic Collapse from Disease Pandemics....
The recent launch of the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility by the World Bank in partnership with World Health Organisation, Swiss Re and Munich Re, marks a timely and much-awaited milestone in...
View ArticleMIND THE GAPS: Big dangers of complacency in the global HIV response By...
The International AIDS Conference 2016, returned to Durban, South Africa, sixteen years after the 2000 conference, where Nkosi Johnson, an 11-year-old boy, gave a memorable address in which he called...
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