Urges continued support for building fund

Long-Term Costs and Health Impact of Continued Global Fund Support for Antiretroviral Therapy

BACKGROUND By the end of 2011 Global Fund investments will be supporting 3.5 million people on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in 104 low- and middle-income countries. We estimated the cost and health impact of continuing treatment for these patients through 2020. METHODS AND FINDINGS Survival on first-line and second-line ART regimens is estimated based on annual retention rates reported by nat...

Thank You for Your Continued Support.

It has been a very busy time for the Center. We are pleased that Dr. Sarah Breier will continue to be a principle and scholar of the Center, all the way from Tasmania, Australia. Dr. Clay Anderson has moved to North Kansas City Hospital to direct the palliative care program. Travis Dixon went to work with major events planning on MU campus. We welcome Matt Morgan now Each brings a unique set of...

Support for Concept Map Building based on Learner’s Building History

In the framework of kit-build concept map, (1) a goal map is prepared by a teacher, (2) parts of the map is generated by decomposing the goal map, and then, (3) a learner makes a map (a learner map) by combining the parts. The learner map is diagnosed by comparing with the goal map. The differences between the learner map and the goal map should be resolved by the learner to complete the learne...

Gore Urges Action

The Global Fund and tuberculosis in Nicaragua: building sustainable capacity?

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to explore and provide feedback on local stakeholders' experiences with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) as it related to capacity building for tuberculosis (TB) services in Nicaragua. METHODS An ethnomethodological approach was used to capture the experiences of three different groups: service providers, service recipients...