AFRO-NETS> Policy Brief on 'Critical Challenges' of HIV/AIDS Epidemic

[Cecilia Snyder <csnyder@ccmc.org>]

Policy Brief on 'Critical Challenges' of HIV/AIDS Epidemic
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Jan 7 - The Kaiser Family Foundation on Friday released a policy 
brief, titled "Critical Policy Challenges in the Third Decade of the 
HIV/AIDS Epidemic," that highlights the United States' national and 
international challenges to and roles in addressing the pandemic. The 
brief, developed as part of the KFF and Ford Foundation joint initia-
tive "AIDS at 20: A National Policy Initiative," examines several do-
mestic and global challenges, including the following:

* Paying for HIV/AIDS drugs and confronting rising drug costs;
* Addressing why HIV/AIDS disproportionately affects racial and eth-
  nic minorities;
* Stimulating the research and development of new treatments and
  vaccines;
* Maintaining a domestic response to the epidemic while addressing
  the international situation;
* Establishing appropriate forms and amounts of U.S. foreign aid;
* Balancing the importance of prevention, treatment, research and
  infrastructure development;
* Working with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Ma-
  laria to make it effective and responsive; and
* Promoting HIV/AIDS treatment access in developing countries while
  balancing U.S. intellectual property interests 

The report is available online in Adobe PDF format at:
http://www.kff.org/content/2002/6013/critchallpb.pdf

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Cecilia Snyder
Senior Project Associate
Communications Consortium Media Center (CCMC)
http://www.PLANetWIRE.org 

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