Uganda edges closer to AIDS treatment for all

Uganda edges closer to AIDS treatment for all.

Uganda leads way in innovative HIV/AIDS treatment.

News Uganda leads way in innovative HIV/AIDS treatment In focus Public health officials and doctors in sub-Saharan Africa say innovative approaches to treating AIDS in poor settings have so far been successful on a small scale. Can these efforts be expanded to provide antiretroviral therapy (ART) on a massive scale? Uganda is one of the sub-Saharan countries that has led the way in the treatmen...

AIDS treatment and mental health: evidence from Uganda.

Increased access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in developing countries over the last decade is believed to have contributed to reductions in HIV transmission and improvements in life expectancy. While numerous studies document the effects of ART on physical health and functioning, comparatively less attention has been paid to the effects of ART on mental health outcomes. In this paper we stud...

Drugs for all: the future of global AIDS treatment.

I am interested in the arts of government that accompany economic globalization and in the remaking of populations as market segments (specifically therapeutic markets). Using the Brazilian response to AIDS as an ethnographic baseline, I examine the systemic relations between pharmaceutical commerce and public health care and the value systems that underscore global AIDS treatment initiatives. ...

Caring for HIV/AIDs orphans in Uganda.

At 680 grams, Ava was the tiniest baby received as of last January by the Bulrushes baby home in Kampala, Uganda. Abandoned in this bustling city of 1.4 million, she was covered in bugs when she was found a few hours after her birth and taken to a local hospital, where staff called Watoto Child Care Ministries, the church-based organization that runs Bulrushes. No one was sure the scrawny infan...