Ugochi Nwosu

Ugochi Nwosu started a discussion "Obama's approach to PEPFAR funding" in the HIV Prevention community.

Focus on providing treatment for AIDS or expand the focus of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to include other health issues plaguing developing countries? That is the question facing Barack Obama as his Global Health Initiative (GHI) program comes under attack for decreasing PEPFAR funding for ARVs and expanding the program’s HIV/AIDS focus to prevention and long term care. It seems Obama’s GHI program seeks to expand the success of PEPFAR in ...

Ugochi Nwosu started a discussion "Gender specific HIV prevention" in the HIV Prevention community.

An interview appeared today in Reuters with Jane Wilson, the UNAIDS Asia-Pacific gender advisor. She argued that due to increases in infection rates in women (from 19% of new infections to 35% in the Asia-Pacific region from 1990 to 2007), gender targeted prevention efforts were necessary to stem incidence rates in women. She argues that HIV/AIDS is still mainly regarded as a male issue in the region. Additionally, cultural restrictions on women’s freedoms make them ...

Ugochi Nwosu started a discussion "IAS AIDS 2010 Conference" in the HIV Prevention community.

The International AIDS Society’s AIDS 2010 conference will begin on Sunday, July 18th in Vienna, Austria. In addition to the attention the conference has drawn for its high profile attendees, including former heads of state, organizers hope to begin a dialogue on the impact of the War on Drugs on HIV prevention efforts and the responsibility of governments to provide comprehensive sexual education. Some of the sessions will be available on live webcast for remote ...

Ugochi Nwosu started a discussion "Gates calls for rapid scale up of HIV prevention at AIDS 2010 conference" in the HIV Prevention community.

In his keynote speech at the International AIDS Society’s AIDS 2010 conference, philanthropist Bill Gates called for greater attention to delivering value in the fight against HIV/AIDS. As a response to the current economic climate, Gates urged for greater efficiency in utilizing limited resources to implement known cost-effective interventions to prevent the spread of HIV infections. Gates highlighted that scaling up prevention methods like male circumcision, counseling sex workers and needle exchange programs, was necessary ...

Ugochi Nwosu started a discussion "Criminalization of HIV Transmission" in the HIV Prevention community.

After reading the recent news articles from Germany about a HIV+ pop singer facing trial for having unprotected sex, I looked into resources on the effect of policies criminalizing HIV transmission on prevention efforts, but I could only find resources concerning the criminalization of sex work, drug use or risk factors. Are there any studies that show the effect of laws barring transmission? There's some background on the case here: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/german-pop-singer-on-trial-for-concealing-h-i-v-status-from-sexual-partners/