News on HIV / AIDS
The media play a critical role in shaping public opinion on global AIDS issues, persuading policymakers to take needed action, and mobilizing concerned citizens to get involved in local activism. Following are recent media clips that feature the Global AIDS Alliance, as well as selected highlights of general media on global AIDS-related issues.
Recent GAA Media Clips
- Barack Obama ‘Breaks Four Aid Pledges for Africa’, Daily Telegraph (UK), May 18, 2009
- Investment Should Follow Obama’s Pledges on HIV/AIDS, The Lancet, June 24, 2009
- Embracing a Family-Centred Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic for the Elimination of Pediatric AIDS, Global Public Health, June 17, 2009
- Obama Cuts HIV Funding, Risks 1M Lives, East African, May 25, 2009
- African AIDS Activists Say US Funding Shortfall Will Cost Lives, Los Angeles Times, May 20, 2009
- Governments Must Step Up HIV Funding, IRIN Plus News, May 20, 2009
- AIDS Activists Criticize Obama Budget for HIV, VOA News, May 19, 2009
- Obama, AIDS, and the World, Boston Globe, May 11, 2009
- Obama’s Global Health Plan Disappoints Activists, Inter Press Service, May 5, 2009
- Obama Seeks a Global Health Plan Broader Than Bush’s AIDS Effort, New York Times, May 5, 2009
- A Global Fund for the Health MDGs?, The Lancet, May 1, 2009
- Despite Expanded Foreign Aid Budget, Health Groups Perceive Tight Numbers, CQ Today, March 2, 2009
- Why Was AIDS Relief Chief Let Go?, Newsweek, January 30, 2009
- What Next for UNAIDS?, The Lancet, December 20, 2008
- Violence Against Women and Children Driving AIDS Pandemic, Islam Online, August 10, 2008
- Global AIDS Bill Faced Too Difficult a Path in Congress, The Hill's Congress Blog, July 31, 2008
- UN Report Shows World AIDS Deaths Edging Down, Reuters (UK), July 29, 2008
- US Congress Sends Bush Expanded Global AIDS Program, Reuters, July 24, 2008
- Letter to the Editor: AIDS Funding, Washington Times, July 21, 2008
- Senate Agrees to Triple Anti-AIDS Funding, Associated Press, July 17, 2008
Click here for an archive of older GAA media clips.
Recent News on Global HIV / AIDS
- Desmond Tutu Asks G8 Leaders to Get World’s Children Into School, The Guardian (UK), July 1, 2009
- Can HIV/AIDS Donors Be the Lead “Gender Bender” of Global Development?, Huffington Post, June 30, 2009
- G8 Asked to Create Global Education Fund, VOA News, June 30, 2009
- An Education Stimulus for the Developing World, The Brookings Institution, June 29, 2009
- US Faces Global Health Aid Dilemma, Boston Globe, June 14, 2009
- Obama’s Call for Educating Women, Huffington Post, June 5, 2009
- Let’s Stop Women’s Suffering, Boston Globe, June 4, 2009
- The World’s Best Investment: The Global Fund, Huffington Post, June 1, 2009
- Prevention Efforts and Infection Patterns Mismatched, IRIN Plus News, May 27, 2009
- Group Says Infants Needlessly Get HIV, Boston Globe, May 22, 2009
- 900 Babies a Day Are Born with AIDS Virus in the Developing World, Global and Mail, May 22, 2009
- The 63 Billion Dollar Question, Science Speaks, May 6, 2009
- Obama’s Global Health Plan’s Missing the Money, Huffington Post, May 6, 2009
- Rationing Antiretroviral Therapy in Africa—Treating Too Few, Too Late, New England Journal of Medicine, April 30, 2009
- Obama Picks Leader for Global AIDS Effort, New York Times, April 27, 2009
- Obama Administration May Flat-Line Funding for PEPFAR, The Lancet, April 18, 2009
- PEPFAR’s Success, Washington Post, April 9, 2009
- UNAIDS Chief Says Pandemic Can Be Chance to Change, Agence France Press, April 9, 2009
- Keeping Africa’s Turnaround on Track, Washington Post, April 9, 2009
- How Much Bang for the PEPFAR Buck?, IRIN Plus News, April 7, 2009
- Aids Relief: US Initiative Is Found to Reduce Deaths From AIDS, but Not New Cases, in Africa, New York Times, April 6, 2009
- HIV in Marriage: A Silent but Disturbing Partner, The Standard (Kenya), March 29, 2009
- Obama Administration’s First Test on Global Poverty, Huffington Post, March 25, 2009
- Econom Forces Obama to Rein In Foreign Aid Goals, Christian Science Monitor, March 23, 2009
- AIDS: Lessons Learnt and Myths Dispelled, The Lancet, March 20, 2009