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Table of Contents



The Killing Fields

Follywood

Vote of Confidence




Getting Crystal Clear

Mother Lode

High Definition

Control Issues

Going Green

The Mirror Has Two Chins

Trans America

Gimme Some Skin

Pole Position




RED Bull?

Uniform Care

Bush's Test Results

Achy Breaky HAART

WikiHIV

A Ryan White Scorecard

Hot Dates-July/August 2007

The Art of Activism

Bringing Sexy Back

Trigger Happy

Culture Wars

Oui Are the World

Big Gulp




Editor's Letter-July/August 2007

Catch of the Month-July/August 2007

Mailbox-July/August 2007


Most Talked About

AIDS: Not a Heterosexual Disease? (46)

The Greatest Gay Rights Battle of Our Time (Blog) (19)

Lambda Legal Responds to HIV Spitting Conviction (19)

Ready to Quit? The Risks and Rewards of a Potent Smoking-Cessation Drug (17)

Mandatory HIV Tests Before Marriage? (15)

Most Popular Lessons

Herpes Simplex Virus

Syphilis & Neurosyphilis

Shingles

The HIV Life Cycle

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)

Treatments for Opportunistic Infections (OIs)


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July / August 2007


Bush's Test Results

by Lucile Scott

Congress grades his international AIDS policy

Last year Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to review the performance of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) over its first three years. After visiting 13 of PEPFAR’s 15 operating countries, the panel praised it for delivering lifesaving ARVs to more than a million positive people worldwide. But the institute also issued stern pointers. First: Stop requiring that a third of the $300 million annual prevention budget go to abstinence-based education. Second: Stop making the Food and Drug Administration reapprove drugs that the World Health Organization has already endorsed. Third: Stop barring taxpayer money from funding IV-drug-needle exchanges. “The [PEPFAR] leadership seem to be moving toward these things,” says the institute’s Charles Carpenter, MD. “But they have political realities to deal with.” Now it’s up to Congress to upgrade those pointers— into law.
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