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  • Facing the Future of HIV Care

    August 04, 2011 |

    POZ Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, District of Columbia

    When health care funding was cut in the United States, HIV clinics were hit harder than some other areas, impacting not just the medicine, but also the staff in these facilities. The Whitman-Walker Clinic in the District of Columbia, however, found a way to combat these changes by broadening the range of people they were caring for and mimicking service providers that were qualified as federally qualified health centers.

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  • A Trade Barrier to Defeating AIDS

    July 26, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India

    One-pill-a-day generic AIDS drugs for poor countries are hard to make because each ingredient is patented by a different pharmaceutical company. The Patent Pool provides a way for companies to donate their intellectual property safely.

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  • Sharing Patents to Wipe Out AIDS

    July 21, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Mateo, California

    Once-a-day generic AIDS drugs for poor countries are hard to make because each ingredient is patented by a different pharmaceutical company. The Patent Pool provides a way for companies to donate their intellectual property safely.

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  • In Iran, a Brotherhood of Doctors and Patients

    June 20, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Iran, Tehran, Tehran

    Two Iranian brothers worked as doctors to reform how Iran tackles HIV, moving the country toward the harm reduction approach. By providing clean needles and methadone, the doctors were able to lower infection rates, even in prisons.

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  • The Man Who Had HIV and Now Does Not

    May 29, 2011 |

    New York Magazine |

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    Response Location: Germany, Berlin

    The medical community had essentially given up hope for a cure for aids and thus little to no money was devoted to the research. A man with aids was cured in Berlin, by an optimistic doctor and a stem-cell transplant, and the medical community has begun researching again to see if the solution is replicable on a larger scale.

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  • A Housecall to Help With Doctor's Orders

    February 28, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The health problems of millions of Americans are directly related to patients' failure to follow doctors’ orders. Community health workers are increasingly successful in New York and other American cities – not to substitute for doctors, but to help patients stick to their treatment plans.

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  • How Iran Derailed a Health Crisis

    December 03, 2010 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Iran, Tehran

    Two columns on how Iran is treating its massive epidemic of injecting drug use by tackling it as a health problem, effectively lowering H.I.V. rates among drug users using an approach to drugs known as harm reduction.

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  • An Enlightened Exchange in Iran

    November 29, 2010 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Iran, Tehran, Tehran

    Two columns on how Iran averted a major AIDS epidemic through needle exchange programs; a conservative theocracy is successfully treating drug abuse as if it were Amsterdam.

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  • Health Care and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

    October 18, 2010 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Lesotho, Maseru

    In a mountainous region of Lesotho, a man named Tsepo Kotelo visits 20 villages every week on his new motorcycle to provide health care to local villagers. The Elton John AIDS Foundation gifted the motorcycles to Kotelo and his colleagues, allowing them to increase the number of patients they visit by 600 percent. An organization called Riders for Health helps maintain the bikes, ensuring that remote villages will continue to receive medical care.

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  • What the World Needs Now Is DDT

    April 11, 2004 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Ndumu

    DDT was banned in the United States in 1972 because of the harm it can cause to the natural environment when it is sprayed in mass quantities over large areas. However, spraying DDT on the walls inside of homes is the most effective way to prevent the spread of malaria in many African countries. Allowing African nations to use DDT for this purpose would save the lives of thousands of children who die each year from malaria.

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