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...organizations like Doctors Without Borders warn that HIV/AIDS is still an emergency for many countries. South Africa, for example, has the world's largest population of HIV-positive individuals and yet has only recently begun to address the problem. "They were quite slow in scaling up treatments," says Emi MacLean, U.S. director of the Doctors Without Borders Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines. The country's former President, Thabo Mbeki, was a skeptic about AIDS research and refused to make antiretroviral treatment (ART) widely available. "It's really only in the last few years that they've been scaling...
...slowdown in PEPfAR funding are even more heightened on the ground in recipient countries. According to a November report from Doctors Without Borders, many treatment programs have simply stopped enrolling new patients. "A lot of organizations are told they'll have to keep people on wait lists," says MacLean. "They'll have to ration treatment in a way they haven't had to in the last six or seven years." On Clinton's Africa trip this summer, she met with Nigeria's Minister of Health, who expressed serious concern over the flatlining of funding for PEPfAR and the Global Fund...
...population) to HIV treatment by 2010. While at least 10 million people worldwide currently receive some care, including more than 2.1 million who are on ART, a majority of HIV-infected individuals still lack access to treatment. "In rich countries, HIV/AIDS is now a chronic illness," Doctors Without Borders' MacLean says. "But in poor countries, it's still a fatal disease...
...Maclean and others, one of the most telling numbers in the Administration's new five-year PEPfAR strategy is 4 million - the number of people it is targeting to have on treatment by fiscal year 2014. That's far lower than the 7 million target a coalition of researchers urged the Administration to set, and the goal represents a slowdown from the recent pace of treatment expansion. Since PEPfAR was first implemented in 2004, its affiliated programs have expanded treatment to approximately 400,000 individuals each year. The new target would lower that number to 320,000. After the stunning...
...Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub hosted Brendan Maclean and the Magic Hat Brewing Company last night as a continuation of its Beer School series. Beer School—which began in the spring of 2007 when the Pub opened—brings in local brewers to host beer tastings and to talk about life in the brewing industry. Beer School takes place about two or three times per semester. MacLean, the leader of the series, is the sales representative of Magic Hat Brewing Company in the greater Boston area. During his presentation, he spoke about Magic Hat?...