Dec 13, 2006
PEPFAR policy hinders treatment in generic terms
Critics say FDA approval rule has meant greater use of high-cost drugs at expense of helping fewer patients.
Critics say FDA approval rule has meant greater use of high-cost drugs at expense of helping fewer patients.
Restrictive funding, emphasis on abstinence hinder $15 billion effort.
Once again, ideology trumps good science and public health policy as Bush's global AIDS plan ignores reality and endangers women's lives.
ETHIOPIA: Atnafu Betseha, 32, is an Ethiopian Orthodox priest at the holy water site of St. Mary's Church. His job is to administer the water and pray for the healing of the more than 700 pilgrims that arrive here every day.
ETHIOPIA: Michot Sebresilassei, 20, an HIV-positive woman from Eritrea, drinks holy water every morning to wash down the antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) provided by the U.S. government through the local hospital.
ETHIOPIA: Tatiana Shoumilina is an adviser for UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, in Ethiopia. She says HIV programs won't work unless they combine a sense of urgency with long-term planning.
ETHIOPIA: Mengistu Asnake is the deputy country representative in Ethiopia for Pathfinder International, a Boston-based charity that supports family planning and reproductive health services in the developing world.
SOUTH AFRICA: In South Africa, some AIDS funds go to faith-based groups with little expertise.
We speak with Jean-Saurel Beaujour, the founder Haiti's first AIDS community advocacy group.
Nigeria has been slow to respond to the HIV threat, and maybe understating the epidemic's reach.
Hotels along Ethiopia's main trade route to the Red Sea are lately undertaking an unexpected and disturbing role as hospices for commercial sex workers infected with HIV/AIDS.
Insistence on condoms keeps HIV under control in India but clashes with U.S. funding restrictions.
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\The Cité de Dieu community is one of many that have fallen off the radar screens of governmental and nongovernmental organization programs. The one organization still helping to feed the community is a neighborhood church named Redemption.
Four U.S. agencies rate effectiveness higher than PEPFAR.
Complicated funding forms in Kenya beyond the reach of illiterate caregivers.
UGANDA: As Uganda lessens its promotion of condoms, early HIV achievements suffer a setback.
"During the day I am a member of the association and at night I am a commercial sex worker in the streets. I am not sure how old I am, but I think I am around 27," says Tigist Salomon.
ETHIOPIA: Sixteen-year-old Yeshiwork Gashaw lives with her mother in Ethiopia's remote northeastern Amhara region. When interviewed she was taking an HIV prevention course taught by Food for the Hungry, an Arizona-based relief organization that received an $8.3 million President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) grant to teach abstinence and fidelity to young people.
HAITI: Dieula sits in a circle of women on the tiled floor of a dimly lit room here, discussing the sexual violence that makes HIV infection an ever-present danger for Haitian women.
HAITI: Dr. Catherine Maternowska is an assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco in the departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and Anthropology, History and Social Medicine.
ETHIOPIA: An estimated 130,000 adults and children died of AIDS in Ethiopia in 2005 alone. But others are surviving with the help of antiretroviral drugs -- a therapy that fights the HIV virus -- that they get through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
HAITI: Bresa Belizaire works out of a wood hut with a raked-dirt floor. Under a wooden chair in the corner are bottles of medicine and human bones. Belizaire is a voodoo priest, or "houngan" in Creole, in Thomonde, Haiti, an impoverished area in the center of the country.
HAITI: Project Medishare is one of many U.S. organizations working on improving the health of this community, where between 5 and 10 percent of the population is infected with HIV.
THAILAND: Condoms on the wane in Thailand, but not risky behavior.