Engendering bold leadership against HIV/AIDS.

Tackling HIV in MENA: Talk Is Not Enough–It Is Time for Bold Actions: A Response to Recent Commentaries

African strategies on HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention and fighting the stigma surrounding the disease: a leadership perspective

Awareness, prevention of transmission, as well as fighting the stigma surrounding the disease, is an essential part of addressing the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa. Limited access to care, reluctance in the acceptability of care, appropriatenes of care, and inaffordability of care are among the barriers to HIV prevention. Different studies have been conducted by scholars on strategies to use in A...

The anti-prostitution policy in the US HIV/AIDS program.

T here is much to applaud in the legislation authorizing US foreign assistance for HIV/AIDS (the US Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act -hereafter the Leadership Act). President George W. Bush and Congress passed this landmark legislation in a laudable effort to address the catastrophic HIV/AIDS pandemic. The law has vastly increased US funding for HIV/AIDS programs and h...

Political will, traditional leaders and the fight against HIV/AIDS: a South African case study.

"Political will" and leadership are increasingly considered key contextual influences on the outcomes of HIV/AIDS programmes in sub-Saharan Africa. Such debates tend to focus on the role of national leadership in shaping responses to the epidemic, with little attention to local leaders. Yet many of the settings in which HIV/AIDS flourishes are geographically distant from the reach of national l...

A Shot at Dendritic Cell-Based Vaccine Strategy against HIV-1

Introduction: Despite considerable efforts to control AIDS pandemic, it is still one of the significant infectious concerns worldwide. The advance in medical research has led to the development of highly active antiretroviral therapy with a considerable effect to suppress the disease. However, an effective vaccine capable of eradication the HIV pandemic is not available yet. Failure to develop ...