Politics of Funding

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  • One Pill A Day

    April 24, 2013

    Stephen Lewis on a good news story out of South Africa: the roll out of a single daily pill to treat HIV and AIDS is a real breakthrough. If we were to extend the one pill around the world, we could confound the pandemic in record time.

  • The Numbers Are In

    April 8, 2013

    Stephen Lewis comments: The numbers are in. We've spent more than $2 trillion on useless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and OECD countries are cutting their foreign aid spending again. Only a microscopic pittance of that money would be required to sustain the lives of 34 million people living with HIV and AIDS, and we won't get it.

  • Stephen Lewis: A Tale of Two Countries

    March 28, 2013

    Stephen Lewis discusses development funding in Britain and Canada. Which Conservative government has the better development policy?

  • Mutually-Agreed Hypocrisy

    March 5, 2013

    The sequestration's budget cuts to will amount to a death sentence for many people living with HIV and AIDS.

  • A Matter of Priorities

    February 14, 2013

    AIDS-Free World Co-Director Stephen Lewis pulls no punches as he resumes his video commentaries on the state of the global response to HIV and AIDS.

  • An AIDS-Free Generation?

    February 7, 2013

    The Obama administration claims to be working toward an AIDS-Free Generation, but will they back their rhetoric with resources? AIDS-Free World Co-Director Stephen Lewis criticizes rumored funding cuts to PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

  • Stephen Lewis gives keynote address at Stanford Face AIDS Conference

    February 7, 2013

    AIDS-Free World Co-Director Stephen Lewis gives the keynote address at Stanford University's Face AIDS Conference.

  • The Current: Bill C-398: Generic AIDS Drugs Defeated

    November 30, 2012

    Stephen Lewis is interviewed on the CBC radio show The Current about the defeat of Bill C-398 in Canada, which would have made it easier for Canadian generic drug companies to produce life-saving HIV/AIDS drugs and ship them to developing countries in desperate need of them.

  • Pediatric HIV: A Neglected Disease?

    July 26, 2012

    Remarks by Stephen Lewis, Co-Director of AIDS-Free World, at a session of the XIX International AIDS Conference organized by the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) and the International AIDS Society's Industry Liaison Forum: Catching Children Before They Fall: Addressing Urgent Needs in Developing Drugs for Young Children Living with HIV, July 22, 2012, Washington, D.C.

  • GlobalPost: US Reveals Nearly $1.5 Billion in Unspent AIDS Money

    April 17, 2012

    Stephen Lewis says he is disappointed that aid money from the US was allowed to accumulate rather than being distributed in an orderly way.

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