From Foreign Affairs, January 23 2007
How to establish an effective and sustainable health system in a poor country? This is a formidable and complex challenge, long neglected in development theory and practice, which has re-emerged into the mainstream debate only recently — notably with the 2001 Commission on Macro-economics and Health (CMH, headed by Jeffrey [...]

The world’s experience of living with HIV/Aids in the past generation suggests that tough and far-sighted policies are needed if progress is to be made over the next, says Alex de Waal.
Aids was first recognised as a disease in 1981, and since the first report that year of a new syndrome afflicting five Californian gay [...]

Review of Pieter Fourie “The Political Management of HIV and AIDS in South Africa: One Burden Too Many?”
At August’s International Aids Conference in Toronto the South African government once again came under fire from AIDS activists – and from a senior UN official – for its continually inadequate response to a growing AIDS epidemic. UN [...]

In This Edition
1. Overview/Toronto 2006
2. South African AIDS policy
3. The G8 and HIV/AIDS
4. Male circumcision
5. Extensively Drug Resistant (XDR) Tuberculosis
6. AIDS and the MDGs – a pre-emptive assessment
7. HIV/AIDS, Police Services and Other Non-Military Uniformed Services
Overview/Toronto 2006
1.) Twenty-five years since the first isolation of HIV/AIDS by the Centers for Disease Control in the United States, [...]

Justice Africa seeks to commission African and African-based researchers to undertake small-scale pieces of social science research on HIV/AIDS and the police and other uniformed non-military services.
The research can occur in any African nation, and researchers are especially welcomed from West Africa.
Researchers should be post-graduate students (Master’s degree or PhD), academics, journalists with specific knowledge [...]