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August 24, 2009

Reflections on NYT Magazine Special Issue on Gender: Three Questions to Guide the New Crusade

Posted by Ruth Levine in Global Health Tags: , , ,

This is a joint post with Molly Kinder and originally appeared on the Global Development: Views from the Center blog.

This week The New York Times Magazine is dedicated to a single theme: women. The main attraction of this special issue is a stirring essay by journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, who write passionately about the great moral, national security and economic development imperatives of investing in the world’s women and girls. The “women’s crusade” they call for seems already to have begun. A few pages beyond, an interview with Secretary Clinton heralds the start of a “new gender agenda” at the highest reaches of the U.S. foreign policy. Also noted is the growing philanthropic attention to the cause of women and girls – a trend that will be further evidenced next month, when the issue headlines at the annual (Bill) Clinton Global Initiative meetings in NYC. Read More…

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April 28, 2009

PEPFAR Might Be Saving Millions of Lives – But We Don’t Have Evidence Yet

Posted by Mead Over in HIV/AIDS & Infectious Diseases, HIV/AIDS and other Infectious Diseases, PEPFAR Tags: ,

It’s often said that the perfect is the enemy of the good. But in the area of program evaluation, the enthusiasm for a humanitarian program can lead to wide dissemination of optimistic results even if they are based on a flawed evaluation technique. In this case, the bad is the enemy of the good – because poor quality evaluation can deflect interest from good evaluation. Members of Congress will want to consider this cautionary note when it comes time for confirmation hearings for Eric Goosby as Global AIDS Coordinator and head of the President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, and ask about his plans for supporting better evaluation of this important program. Read More…

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April 10, 2009

The Future of UNAIDS: Leave Your Comments on Recommendations of New Report

Posted by Danielle Kuczynski in HIV/AIDS & Infectious Diseases, HIV/AIDS and other Infectious Diseases Tags: ,

On April 3rd, The Committee of Cosponsoring Organizations(CCO), a forum for the 10 cosponsoring UN agencies who work on HIV/AIDS, met for the first time since Michel Sidibé took up his post as the next Executive Director at UNAIDS. The meeting, one of two held by the CCO ever year, was the first opportunity for the group to meet with Mr. Sidibé. Read More…

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