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9/23/2010 Obama Says Foreign Aid Can Help Spur U.S. Economic Growth
9/21/2010 U.N. foresees dramatic cuts in poverty
9/20/2010 Dengue Vaccine Trial
9/20/2010 NYC – An Alarm on Maternal Deaths, Global and Local
9/20/2010 Summits show stark differences between UN initiatives and private aid
9/20/2010 Developing nations to get clean-burning stoves
9/20/2010 Senate passes global clean water bill
9/18/2010 U.N. Poverty Goals Face Accountability Questions
9/16/2010 Global vaccine makers to help developing nations expand network
9/16/2010 A mother’s education has a huge effect on a child’s health
9/16/2010 The Orphan Development Goal by Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
9/14/2010 New UN Assembly Session
9/14/2010 Former Chilean President to Lead New U.N. Agency
9/14/2010 UK scientists devise ‘one-hour test’ for TB
9/13/2010 Cash benefits with strings cut poverty in Latin America
9/13/2010 New drug-resistant ‘superbug’ arrives in Mass.
9/5/2010 “World Water Week
2010 Scientific Strategic Plan of Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise
and 9/2/2010 New Malaria Drug Candidate
9/2/2010 Discussing the Global Health Initiative
9/1/2010 Superfast TB test slashes wait time
9/1/2020 Funding begins flowing for African agriculture
9/1/2010 Some donated malaria drugs are being stolen in Africa
8/31/2010 World Water Week approaches
8/30/2010 Creation of emergency fund for Africa
8/30/2010 A spark of good health news amid bad
8/29/2010 UN-NGO Meeting in Australia
8/27/2010 Health workers strike in South Africa
8/26/2010 Niger's Rising Population
8/26/2010 The Coming Food Crisis
8/26/2010 Scientific American Series on HIV/AIDS
8/23/2010 "Cancer drugs to defeat HIV?
8/22/2010 Aid Corrupted
8/21/2010 Harper government begins rollout of maternal health plan in Africa
8/21/2010 "Gene Therapy HIV-resistant cells
8/19/2010 Developing Nations not prepared to bear most of world's cancer burden
8/19/2010 African Bishops in Anti-HIV Campaign
8/15/2010 Comparing HIV Testing and Treatment and Effectiveness
8/11/2010 The Girl Effect on HIV
8/11/2010 Bacterial Resistance Gene Found
8/11/2010 AIDS Vaccine Testing
8/7/2010 New UN Body for Gender Equality
8/4/2010 Misoprostol Use in Kenya

7/28/2010 Access to Clean Water is a Human Right
7/28/2010 Mapping Health Budgets and child deaths
7/28/2010 Girls Held Back in Child Marriages
7/27/2010 Therapeutic HIV Vaccines
7/26/2010 African Leaders and Maternal Deaths
7/26/2010 "Saving 11 million African Lives
7/26/2010 Questions about Microbicide Gel
7/25/2010 Vaccinations for Children" Kofi Annan and Jimmy Carter
7/24/2010 Ultrarice for malnutrition
7/23/2010 AUDIO NPR Talk of the Nation Scientists Say a Gel Can Slow HIV Spread
7/22/2010 Youth HIV/AIDS Activists
" 7/21/2010 Taxing for financing HIV/AIDS programs
7/21/2010 Drugmakers talk to make AIDS drugs more widely available
7/21/2010 Focus on Primary Health Care to Fight AIDS
7/21/2010 AUDIO NPR Talk of the Nation Developments in HIV/AIDS Research
7/20/2010 Microbicide Reducing HIV Infection By 39%
7/18-23/2010 International AIDS Conference Coverage
7/15/2010 Negative Consequences of Child Marriage
7/15/2010 Nature Supplements Outlook: HIV/AIDS
and 7/13/2010 HIV Rates Falling Among Young People
and and 7/9/2010 A Breakthrough in AIDS Research
7/7/2010 WEBCAST G8 and G20 Health and Development
7/6/2010 "Building Research Capacity in Africa
7/2010 WHO recommendations for retaining health workers in rural areas

6/28/2010 G8 $5B Commitment to Maternal, Child Health
6/28/2010 FDA Boost for rare drugs
6/21/2010 Maternal Health Time to Deliver
6/21/2010 East Africa Health Sector Gets a Boost
6/18/2010 UNDP 8 point action agenda
6/16/2010 New HIV Tests Can Identify Newest HIV Infections
6/15/2010 UN Plan for Women's Health
6/15/2010 Vaginal ring to kill HIV Virus
6/12/2010 PEPFAR Not Improving Non-HIV Outcomes
6/11/2010 Countries Without Doctors
6/8/2010 Global Fund Mid Year Results
6/8/2010 AUDO NPR Talk of the Nation Maternal Health Still A Major Global Issue
6/7/2010 Gates Foundation $1.5B Commitment for Maternal Health
6/2/2010 Sierra Leone free health care brings in its neighbors
5/26/2010 Watchdog: Nations getting away with murder
5/20/2010 AUDIO The Economist Special Report Water
5/19/2010 Fight on counterfeit drugs
5/19/2010 Ten Countries desperately seeking doctors
5/18/2010 Liberia invests in farmers to feed nation
5/12/2010 Bad Charity?
5/11/2010 World Bank focus on reproductive health
5/10/2010 Better care for newborns
5/9/2010 In Uganda, AIDS War is Falling Apart
5/6/2010 CDC Director on Global Health
5/5/2010 Changing US Food Policy
5/5/2010 Immune Cells keeping HIV in check
5/4/2010 Few Mothers Dying in Ecuador
Effect of vitamin A supplementation in women of reproductive age on maternal survival in Ghana
5/3/2010 Study Finds Vitamin A Does not Improve Maternal, Infant Health
5/2/2010 Soap Operas Saving the World

4/30/2010 Global Mortality Data
4/29/2010 AUDIO NPR Tell Me More UN Intervenes To Prevent Rape in War Zone
4/28/2010 Updated Medicine Guidelines for Children
4/26/2010 South Africa Launches major AIDS campaign
4/25/2010 Poorer nations and World Bank
4/22/2010 Aiding Farms Globally
4/21/2010 WHO and UNICEF Water Sanitation and Health Priorities
4/21/2010 "Women Farmers Key in Fight Against Hunger
4/19/2010 The Dangers of Buying Medicines Overseas
4/19/2010 What Aid Can't Buy in Africa
4/14/2010 Health experts in West Africa meet in Sierra Leone
4/13/2010 Renewed effort to reduce women in childbirth, newborn and young children deaths
4/13/2010 Liberia: Donor Health Millions Squandered - Audit
4/12/2010 Maternal deaths fall worldwide
4/9/2010 Poor Nations that get aid cut back on their own spending
4/7/2010 VIDEO PBS Newshour Eradicating Guinea Worm in Sudan
4/7/2010 World Health Day
4/6/2010 Saving Babies' Lives in India
4/1/2010 VIDEO Elite Peru AIDS Patients
4/1/2010 Evaluating PrEP
4/2010 Water - A Special Issue
3/30/2010 Evaluating Food Aid Policy
3/22/2010 Time to finance a new global health fund
3/17/2010 Debate about Genetically Modified Crops
3/15/2010 Quiet Corruption in Africa
3/15/2010 "India - Africa Ties
3/13/2010 When Humanitarian Aid Winds Up in the Wrong Hands
3/11/2010 The Other Health Care Debate
3/8/2010 Empowering Women, International Women's Day
3/8/2010 Examining Millennium Villages in Africa
3/7/2010 HIV Hides Out in Bone Marrow Cells
3/1/2010 Commitment to Action on Gender Equality
3/1/2010 Biodegradable, low cost toilet
3/2010 Polio in Africa
3/2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
3/2009 New WHO Malaria Treatment Guidelines
2/25/2010 Paper Chips May Fight Disease
2/25/2010 Saving holds key to women's empowerment
2/23/2010 Flightless Mosquitoes to Stop Dengue Fever
2/22/2010 Global Center Weighs in on GHI Blueprint
2/22/2010 Thoughts on Global Health Initiative
2/22/2010 The Drugs Won't Work
2/22/2010 Views on the test-and-treat model
2/20/2010 New HIV/AIDS Plan Would Test, Treat Everyone in High-Risk Regions
2/20/2010 Using antiretroviral drugs early may curb HIV/AIDS spread
2/20/2010 ARTs may prevent HIV infections
2/18/2010 Urging HIV Prevention for long term couples
2/17/2010 Sugar technology keeps vaccines stable in the heat
2/2/2010 AUDIO NPR Morning Edition A Look At U.S. Policy on Family Planning Abroad
2/1/2010 Extra Money for Science in Obama's Budget
1/29/2010 Gates Foundation to Double Spending on Vaccines
1/27/2010 Rotavirus Vaccine Could Save Millions of Children Worldwide
1/25/2010 Scientist David Ho: The Man Who Could Beat AIDS
1/21/2010 VIDEO Paul Farmer at Duke Alumni Event
1/19/2010 Study addresses cost Saving of male circumcision programs
1/19/2010 Malaria Vaccine
1/18/2010 Managing Disasters with Small Steps
1/18/2010 Financial Cost of Healthcare Fraud Report
1/15/2010 Genetic discovery by British scientists raises hopes for malaria treatments
1/14/2010 Mutant HIV Wave Threatens Decades of Drug Progress, Study Finds
1/4/2010 Worldwide Impact of Drug Resistance
1/2/2010 AUDIO NPR All Things Considered AIDS Activists Worry About Spending Under Obama
1/2010 AUDIO AIDS: The Politics of Prevention
1/2010 Lancet Evaluation of UNICEF Programs
1/2010 Call for Action on Health Data
12/29/2009 In Mexico, a Plan to Beat Poverty With Health Care and Education
12/21/2009 Health reform lessons via Haiti and Peru
12/15/2009 Patent Pool to Lower HIV/AIDS Drug Costs
12/7/2009 Climate Change and Health
12/3/09 Preventing Maternal and Infant Deaths with Family Planning
12/1/09 Reusing Syringes
12/1/09 Malaria Drugs Fight
12/1/09 New Infections Outstripping Treatment Gains
12/1/09 Ghana Cell Phones Reduce Maternal Deaths
12/1/09 Progress on Pediatric HIV Not Enough
12/1/09 South Africa vows to treat all babies with HIV
11/2009 New HIV recommendations
11/30 World AIDS Day Ongoing Stigma
11/29/09 Positive Deviance Approach to Health Care
11/25/09 Closing the Gender Gap
11/24/09 Progress and Challenges in Fight Against AIDS
11/24/09 UNAIDS Global AIDS Data
11/24/09 Poor Sanitation Killing Liberia's Young
11/23/09 Malnutrition in Liberia
11/21/09 Yellow Fever Vaccinations in Liberia
11/18/09 Pfizer in Tropical Disease Drug Partnership
11/17/09 Yellow Fever in West Africa
11/16/09 Renewed Hope for an AIDS Vaccine
11/16/09 Preventable Infant Deaths
11/15/09 Sierra Leone Health Crisis
11/13/09 Travis Kavulla Opinion Piece about Africa's HIV/AIDS Epidemic
11/10/09 AIDS Leading Killer of Women
11/9/09 Universities Urging Drug Access for Poor
11/9 WHO Women and Health Report
10/31/09 Nicholas Kristof Opinion Piece
10/27/09 Maternal Mortality Meetings
10/26/09 Acting Against Maternal Mortality
10/22/09 Ending African Pediatric AIDS
10/20/09 EU favors big drug companies over those in need
10/20/09 Outliers Drive Search for Cures to Disease
10/19/09 Experts Seek New Ways to Fund Health Services
10/15/09 HHS Approves 100th Antiretroviral for PEPFAR 10/14/09 IMF Accused of Impeding Health Sector Progress
10/12/09 Data Calls Into Question HIV Vaccine Data
10/11/09 Gender Equity with Nikolas Kristof
9/26/09 AIDS Vaccine Implications
9/24/09 AIDS Vaccine Shows Modest Potential for Protection
9/22/09 Clinton Summit and Gender Issues
9/18/09 US Global AIDS Leader Interview
8/10/09 Gel Developed to Prevent HIV Spread
8/5/09 Scientists Decode HIV Genome
7/26/09 Washington DC Church Addresses HIV Stigma, Teaches Safe Sex to Black, Gay Congregation
7/21/09 Glaxo AIDS Drug - Spectacular Results
7/14/09 GSK and AIDS Drugs in Africa
7/14/09 Brazil's Effective Combat of HIV/AIDS
7/13/09 Gender Differences and HIV Progression
7/10/09 Fake Pharmaceuticals in West Africa
6/26/09 Every 91/2 minutes someone in US becomes infected with HIV
6/22/09 CNN Profiles Children Born with HIV
6/21/09 Breakthrough in HIV Treatment
5/18/09 New HIV Vaccine Research
5/6/09 Obama Global Health Plan
5/1/09 World Bank HIV/AIDS Program Less Successful
5/1/09 No Signatures for HIV Test
5/1/09 The Invisible Epidemic Opinion Piece
4/30/09 New HIV RNA Test for More Accurate Time-Telling Results
4/28/09 New Link to Prevent Spread of HIV
4/27/09 New Tests for HIV Vaccines
4/25/09 Economic Crisis affecting Drug Access for 1.7 Million
4/16/09 Glaxo and Pfizer to combine for HIV/AIDS Drugs
4/16/09 Anthony Fauci on HIV Policy
4/09 April is National STD Awareness Month
4/3/09 First Ladies of France and US Unite in AIDS Efforts
3/31/09 HIV Inhibitor Grown in Tobacco Plants
3/30/09 Video of Cell to Cell HIV Transfer
3/27/09 HIV Positive Kenyan Teachers Spreading HIV to Female Students
3/17/09 HIV Prevalence in DC May be More than 3%
3/12/09 New Female Condom Approved
2/17/09 HIV China's Top Infection in 2008
2/17/09 Gene Therapy to Combat AIDS
2/10/09 Drugs Found to Block HIV in Monkeys"
2/6/09 Essence Magazine Black AIDS Awareness Day Coverage
1/22/09 HIV Positive Women in Liberia
1/7/09 Uganda: Sheikh Muhamad Kibudde, "Among Muslims...there is a conspiracy of silence on HIV"
1/5/09 Insufficient information and youth AIDS prevalence
12/31/08 Peter Piot departing UNAIDS
12/30/08 POZ Year in Treatment Newa
12/24/08 POZ.com's most talked about stories of 2008
12/20/08 Criminallisation and HIV
12/16/08 Alliance Of NGOs Defends Aids Victims
12/1/08 Screening Most Patients for HIV
11/08 Patient Voices and HIV
11/13/08 Almost 2,000 People in Chile Not Notified They Were HIV Positive
11/13/08 Bone Marrow Transplantation in AIDS Patient
11/11/08 Obama Likely to Reverse some Bush Administration HIV Policies
11/5/08 First Step Towards a Cure for AIDS?
11/4/08 Changing the HIV Treatment Paradigm
10/20/08 New Type of Antibody that Potentially Inhibits HIV Infection
10/14/08: New Potential Target for HIV Therapy
10/7/08: Discoverers of AIDS and Cancer viruses win Nobel
10/2/08: Spiritual Healing Threatening Adherence to Antiretroviral in Uganda Official Says
10/1/08: California to Cover Cost of Screening for HIV
9/08: A Revolutionary New Way to Fight HIV: CCR5 Inhibitors
9/04/08: Fergie Funding HIV Prevention
9/08: AIDS in Peurto Rico
8/08: International AIDS Conference - Mexico City: Top Stories from The Body
8/08: International AIDS Conference - Mexico City: Videos from The Body
8/15/08: PSI/Liberia Talk Show
8/4/08: AIDS 2008 Coverage
8/4/08: The Politics of Combating AIDS
8/3/08: CDC revises number of annual numbers of HIV infections in US: numbers increase
8/2/08: CDC revises number of annual numbers of HIV infections in US: numbers increase
8/1/08: Doctors may be able to degrade HIV permanently
7/25/08: US Congress approves multi-billion dollar bill to fight AIDS
7/16/08: Doctors may be able to degrade HIV permanently
6/18/08 HIV Awareness by Liberians in Minnesota