September 13, 2010Several million people are alive today – and fit and active and looking after their children – who would have been dead, had it not been for the roll-out in recent years of antiretroviral drugs to treat people with HIV/Aids. This is a spectacular success story – even though less than half (4 million out [...]
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September 11, 2010Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday 11 September 2010 This week the pope is in London. You will have your own views on the discrimination against women, the homophobia, and the international criminal conspiracy to cover up for mass child rape. My special interest is his role in the 2 million people who die of Aids [...]
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September 7, 2010Later this week, we’ll be attending the U.S. Conference on AIDS (USCA) the largest AIDS-related gathering in the U.S. As you may remember, in November we posted some highlights from USCA 2009. In this post, we’ll give you a sneak-preview of what’s coming up at USCA 2010 and an update on last year’s USCA activities. [...]
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September 4, 2010The Federal Implementation Plan for the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) requires the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health to support the implementation of the Strategy by forging collaborations across HHS and with other Federal departments and by coordinating Federal efforts with States. To help HHS do that job effectively, I want to ask the readers of [...]
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September 1, 2010A couple of weeks ago I participated on a panel with our CDC colleagues Ann Aiken and Jessica Schindelar about Twitter monitoring, evaluation, and engagement at the CDC’s National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing, and Media. During this panel I spoke about “engagement” on Twitter – providing different definitions of it and how we at [...]
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