Have HIV, will (not) travel

 
Call on governments to lift HIV travel restrictions
Introduction
In advance of the United Nations High Level Meeting on AIDS in New York from June 10- 11, the World AIDS Campaign and the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance urge organizations to sign onto a letter from civil society to the UN missions and Heads of State of countries that [...]

Do something!

Bring Life Saving Global AIDS Legislation to a Vote Now

The greatly improved and expanded version of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is stalled in the Senate’s legislative process. The bill authorizes $50 billion in funding and largely focuses on evidence- and human rights-based treatment, prevention and care programs. It must be passed [...]

PLoS NTD

Check out the “featured expert commentary” on this link: http://www.plosntds.org/home.action Or rather after this week, it is here: http://www.plosntds.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0000160 

ONE.org request

From an email from the one.org campaign:
On the Record Petition

As a member of ONE, I write to ask you to go on the record on where you stand on fighting extreme poverty and global disease that affect the one billion people around the world.
Alleviating suffering and tackling the root causes of global poverty will be [...]

DO SOMETHING!

I think you should do something. I do not expect everyone to go off and spend time/their entire life living in a mud hut without running water and electricity (though you might be surprised how much you like it). You are not expected to quit your job and go and work for one of these [...]

Suggestion Box

Kisumu and Kisii, Western Kenya
HIV/AIDS care and treatment is free for all Kenyans who need such care. However, apparently it is a popular belief by the medical staff that manage the patients that the staff should be paid better–so they collect an “unofficial fee” from the patients that they then pocket. So officially there is [...]

1.5 million people

Coptic Mission HIV Clinic, Nairobi.
This morning the doctor saw a 34 year old woman at the HIV clinic. In the waiting room, there were already roughly 40 people waiting to be seen at 8:30 am. For patients who fit the algorithm they get ARVs (anti-retroviral drugs) at no cost. Of course many of them also have TB [...]