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Congress Cuts Funding For State ADAP Programs

The failure of a US Senate spending bill to include $35 million in funding for HIV medications will jeopardize the ability of state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs to offer prescription drugs to nearly 8,000 low-income people living with the virus, according to patient advocates.

Published
17 hours ago
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Pharmalot
Drug-resistant TB
World Health Organization and Global Fund cite tuberculosis threat

WHO and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria said today that strains of tuberculosis with resistance to multiple drugs could spread widely and highlight an annual need of at least US$ 1.6 billion in international funding for treatment and prevention of the disease.

Published
18 March 2013
From
World Health Organization
Access to medicines and treatment
Uganda government under pressure to boost ARV funding

The Ugandan government's draft 2013/2014 budget allocates US$38.5 million to enrol a further 100,000 people living with HIV on life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. But activists say the money, while welcome in a country still largely dependent on donor funds for its HIV programmes, is not sufficient to meet treatment needs.

Published
15 March 2013
From
IRIN Plus News
UK health services
NHS in London spends £13m on PR

The NHS in London spent almost £13m on public relations in the last three years, a BBC London investigation finds. Some trusts said PR spending was needed to educate the public on health issues. Yet the outlay on staff press officers was supplemented by millions of pounds handed to private PR firms.

Published
13 March 2013
From
BBC Health
PrEP
Preventing HIV Infection With Anti-HIV Drugs in People at Risk Is Cost-Effective

An HIV prevention strategy in which people at risk of becoming exposed to HIV take antiretroviral drugs to reduce their chance of becoming infected (often referred to as pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP), may be a cost-effective method

Published
13 March 2013
From
Science Daily
Health services and systems
Has HIV funding revived lagging health systems?

The HIV/AIDS epidemic arrived in sub-Saharan Africa after decades of neglect had left healthcare systems dangerously weak, barely able to cope with the onslaught of patients. Then the money started pouring in. But the jury is still out on whether the large sums of AIDS funding have made healthcare systems more resilient.

Published
08 March 2013
From
IRIN
Finance and funding
Funding Scientific Innovation: Global Investments in HIV Treatment Research and Development in 2010 and 2011

The latest report found US$2.6 billion was invested in HIV treatment R&D in 2011. Data from 41 public, private, and philanthropic donors reveal a 12% increase in funding from the baseline year of 2009, with the majority of funding targeted at research for new medications.

Published
07 March 2013
From
Treatment Action Group
Finance and funding
CROI 2013: Sequester Cuts Already Felt at Retrovirus Conference

The 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections has officially ended, bringing to a close a four-day gathering of leading scientists whose work moves us closer to new tools for … Read More →

Published
07 March 2013
From
BETA blog
Finance and funding
HIV 'cure' at risk from budget cuts

The automatic cuts in federal spending known as sequestration could take a bite out of crucial medical research, such as the recently unveiled study in which a toddler was cured of HIV.

Published
06 March 2013
From
CNN
Finance and funding
US: Sequester could lead to massive cuts in HIV testing, treatment

The AIDS Drug Assistance Program is among the many federal programs that will take a hit if $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts go through March 1, and those cuts could potentially lead to an increase in HIV transmission, the White House said Sunday in a report on the anticipated state-by-state impacts of the so-called sequester.

Published
04 March 2013
From
Salon
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