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Dirk Niebel: Why Germany Committed EUR 1 Billion to the Global Fund

We are close to turning the tide. I think we are witnessing the beginning of the end of AIDS. This is an achievement, not least, of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Published
27 January 2013
From
Huffington Post
Global health initiatives
In Davos, Germany Donates 1 Billion Euros To The Global Fund

Germany is set to announce on Thursday that it will increase its overall financial contribution to The Global Fund to 1 billion Euros.

Published
25 January 2013
From
Huffington Post
Global health initiatives
Dr. Mark Dybul: The Big Push to Defeat AIDS, TB and Malaria

Every era offers something special. I think the most special thing about our current time is the incredible opportunity that scientific advances have provided in the field of global health, giving us the ability to completely control highly dangerous infectious diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Published
23 January 2013
From
Huffington Post
Global health initiatives
Mark Dybul Begins As Executive Director of the Global Fund

Mark Dybul took charge today as Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, promising to accelerate the organization's efforts to defeat these three highly infectious diseases by working closely with partners.

Published
22 January 2013
From
Global Fund
Finance and funding
South Africa pays a high cost for drug resistant tuberculosis: study

According to a study a case of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) costs South Africa about $26 392 (R234 516.67) to treat, which is four times that of drug resistant TB, which costs $6 772, and a 103 times more than drug sensitive TB, which costs $257.

Published
21 January 2013
From
Times Live
Health services and systems
SA's biggest HIV centre to close

Staff at McCord Hospital in KwaZulu-Natal have received notices informing them that it would close in March, the Sunday Times reported. This comes after the provincial health department said it would no longer provide the hospital with an annual subsidy.

Published
21 January 2013
From
News 24
Finance and funding
Reaction to BBC reporting on generic ARVs

Yesterday the BBC issued a misleading news report on the efficacy of generic antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) suggesting that generic ARVs are less efficacious than branded alternatives. The report, based upon a study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Weill Cornell Medical College investigators, fails to separate the issues of ‘treatment efficacy’ and ‘adherence’ leading to distorted and alarmist conclusions.

Published
17 January 2013
From
Stop AIDS Campaign
Finance and funding
Study questions generic HIV drug use

Using generic HIV drugs could save the US health system $42,500 (£26,500) patients. A modelling study found that if the most pessimistic assumptions about generic drugs' effectiveness were used, this might be at the expense of 4.4 months of life lost, however.

Published
15 January 2013
From
BBC Health
Finance and funding
Generics Could Cut Costs of HIV Treatment

The U.S. could save nearly $1 billion in the first year that generic anti-HIV drugs become available to American patients, researchers reported.

Published
15 January 2013
From
MedPage Today HIV/AIDS
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C: A projection of the healthcare and economic burden in the UK

This report used a cohort simulation model to estimate the prevalence of HCV infection in the UK, including the number of persons who live with HCV infection at different disease stages, and the number of deaths that can be attributed to HCV infection through to 2035. It further assessed the healthcare and societal costs that are associated with HCV infection under different scenarios of diagnosis and treatment rates.

Published
15 January 2013
From
RAND Corporation
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