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Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS
Paul Farmer Lecture - Building a Health Care Movement: From Haiti to Rwanda
The TB/HIV time bomb: A dual epidemic explodes in South Africa - MSF Article
Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis - WHO Report
Mental Health and Katrina
Office of Public Health Practice Grand Rounds: Mental Health Implications of Public Health Emergencies
Other Issues
Access
A New Deal for Health - Century Foundation Report
Stability of Mentally Ill Shaken By Medicare Drug Plan Problems - Levine, The Washington Post
Disaster Preparedness
American Red Cross: Disaster Services website
Community Emergency Preparedness - ewashtenaw.org
Disaster Preparedness in Michigan - Michigan.gov
Senate Committee Approves Legislation to Promote Bio-Defense Projects - Ruppe, Global Security Newswire
Washtenaw County Hazard Mitigation Plan - ewashtenaw.org
Health & Poverty
A Synergism of Plagues: "Planned Shrinkage," Contagious Urban Decay, and AIDS in the Bronx - Wallace, Environmental Research
Editorial: Understanding Sociodemographic Differences in Health - The Role of Fundamental Social Causes - Link et al., American Journal of Public Health
Qualitative Methodologies and Community Participation in Examining Reproductive Experiences: The Harlem Birthright Project - Mullings et al., Maternal and Child Health Journal
To Mitigate, Resist, or Undo: Addressing Structural Influences on the Health of Urban Populations - Geronimus, American Journal of Public Health
HIV/AIDS
General
UNAIDS Epidemiology of AIDS Powerpoint
http://data.unaids.org/pub/GlobalReport/2006/2006GlobalReport_FullPresentation.ppt
“2006 Report on the global AIDS epidemic: Executive summary” from UNAIDS
http://data.unaids.org/pub/GlobalReport/2006/2006_GR-ExecutiveSummary_en.pdf
AIDS Timeline from Kaiser Family Foundation
http://www.kff.org/hivaids/timeline/hivtimeline.cfm
Global Health Facts from Kaiser
http://www.globalhealthfacts.org/index.jsp
“Debunking the Myths in the US Global AIDS Strategy” from CHANGE
http://www.genderhealth.org/pubs/AIDS5-YearStratAnalysisMar-04.pdf
Treatment and Access
“Towards Universal Access by 2010” from WHO
http://www.who.int/hiv/toronto2006/UAreport2006_en.pdf
“Cut the cost: How World Trade Rules Threaten the Health of Poor People” from Oxfam
http://www.maketradefair.com/en/assets/english/patent.pdf
FAQ from MSF’s Access to Essential Medicines
http://www.accessmed-msf.org/campaign/faq.shtm
“Untangling the Web of Price Reductions” (technical) from MSF
http://www.accessmed-msf.org/documents/untanglingtheweb%209.pdf
“Abbott’s new and improved Kaletra: Only in the US…But what about the rest of the world?” from MSF
http://www.accessmed-msf.org/documents/KaletraCampaign.doc
Debt and Trade
“The Unfinished Agenda on International Debt” from Jubilee USA http://www.jubileeusa.org/take_action/unfinished_agenda.pdf
“US free trade agreements block access to medicines” from Oxfam
http://www.oxfam.org/en/news/pressreleases2006/pr060816_aids
Healthworkers in LDCs
“Health worker shortage is major obstacle to universal treatment” from Oxfam
http://www.oxfam.org/en/news/pressreleases2006/pr060815_aidsconference
“Health care workers and health systems capacity” from Health GAP
http://healthgap.org/camp/hcw.html
Global Programs and Funding
“False Hope or New Start? The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria” from Oxfam
http://www.oxfam.org/en/files/pp0206_false_hope_or_new_start.pdf/download
International
Income Inequality, the Psychosocial Environment, and Health: Comparisons of Wealthy Nations - Lynch et al., The Lancet
Patent Injustice: How Global Trade Rules Threaten the Health of Poor People - Oxfam International Report
Local
Coleman, others call for universal health care - Grossman, The Michigan Daily
Health care experts sound off on uninsured - Fraser, The Michigan Daily
Citizens Pay Twice for Toxic Waste: First With Their Health, Then With Their Taxes - Communities at Risk, Sierra Club
Related websites
www.who.int
www.msf.org
www.accessmed-msf.org
www.oxfam.org
www.unaids.org
www.jubilee.org
www.healthgap.org
www.actupny.org
www.avert.org
www.globalaidsalliance.org
www.aegis.org
www.kff.org/
www.globalhealthfacts.org/index.jsp
www.theglobalfund.org/en/
www.genderhealth.org/
www.ewashtenaw.org
www.theglobalfund.org/en/
www.pih.org/home.html
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