Reports
Reports Zika Epidemic Policy Report The Zika epidemic triggered widespread panic in the Americas, primarily due to its association with severe birth defects like microcephaly. This outbreak was not only a medical emergency but also a social crisis, deeply impacting public perception and policy. The virus’s ability to be transmitted through multiple routes, including mosquito […]
Enshrining Inequity is Immoral: Vote No on the Pandemic Agreement, says AHF
As the final stage of negotiations of the World Health Organization (WHO) Pandemic Agreement nears conclusion, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation voices major concerns about the latest Proposal for the Agreement. The current best-case scenario in the most recent text will require that 20% of pandemic-related health products be “made available for use on the basis of public health risk and need. This is grossly insufficient because it leaves 80% of critical vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics inaccessible to LMICs which comprise approximately 85% of the world’s population. The world-leading scientific journal, The Lancet, has described this proposal as “shameful, unjust and inequitable.”
AHF Institute Advocacy Taskforce – Africa
AHF Institute Advocacy Taskforce – Africa The AHF Global Public Health Institute, in partnership with the University of Miami Public Health Policy Lab and the AHF Africa Bureau, convened African public health thought leaders and experts for a series of discussions that took place on September 11 and 12, 2023. These sessions aimed to gather […]
Re-thinking everything
Re-thinking everything COVID-19 in the Americas Conference Multinational online conference co-organized by the AHF Global Public Health Institute at the University of Miami, the Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas and IAPAC the conference aimed to address the historical challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our objective was to “re-think” the management of this […]
Urgent Variant Vigilance: Closing the Gap in America’s Sequencing Odyssey
Hopes for a steady decline and an eventual end to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States are being dashed by a sudden upsurge in new infections and woefully inadequate epidemiological surveillance.