AIDS 2012 in Washington, D.C., is still a year away but a session at IAS 2011 brought to mind why the location of next year’s conference is so significant. It’s been 22 years since the U.S. hosted the conference, in San Francisco in 1990.  When President Obama lifted national entry restrictions for people with HIV…

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The story of Mariana Bernofsky, a TB patient and mother, in Moldova Mariana Bernofsky (video below) lives with her husband in Balti, a small town in Northern Moldova, in a house that has been passed through the family for generations. She stays at home with their young child while he works as a trash collector,…

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All this week, Jade Sasser, policy advisor for the Public Health Institute, is guest blogging for Blog4GlobalHealth from the Cancun Climate Summit in Mexico. Her reports can also be seen at Dialogue4Health, the blog of PHI. CANCUN, Mexico — Tuesday at the COP 16 climate change conference here, I attended a briefing on the topic of displacement and migration in…

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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — You may think that the title says it all, “The Global Business Coalition Conference on TB, HIV/TB Co-infection and Global Fund Partnership,” but there’s more. Tuesday’s first session, “Lesson’s From the Mining Industry: Turning the Tide on TB/HIV” went deeper into the role of the mining industry in South Africa and…

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