By I. Glenn Cohen I have a new article in JAMA this week, “Reconsideration of the Lifetime Ban on Blood Donation by Men Who Have Sex With Men,” co-authored with my former student Jeremy Feigenbaum and my frequent co-author Dr. Eli Adashi (former Dean of Medicine at Brown). In the article we show that…
By Sterling Johnson, JD Grinnell College in Iowa will host the first National Conference on HIV Criminalization next week, June 2-5 on its campus. One of the stated goals of the conference will be to discuss the recent legislative changes in Iowa and how to apply the lessons to other states with laws that apply…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new opinion piece up at NBC News on the increasing use of condoms as evidence of a crime by police in the United States. From the article: Why do we shoot ourselves in the foot when it comes to public health? The latest example of what not to do in the…
Dallas Buyers Club: Free Film Screening and Panel Discussion April 16, 2014 6:00 PM Wasserstein Hall 1010, 1585 Massachusetts Ave. Students from across Harvard are invited to view a free screening of the Academy-award winning film Dallas Buyers Club and participate in a panel discussion about issues addressed in the film related to access to health care for…
Dallas Buyers Club: Free Film Screening and Panel Discussion April 16, 2014 6:00 PM Wasserstein Hall 1010, 1585 Massachusetts Ave. Students from across Harvard are invited to view a free screening of the Academy-award winning film Dallas Buyers Club and participate in a panel discussion about issues addressed in the film related to access to health care…
Current Legal Issues in HIV/AIDS Work Thursday, March 27, 2014, 12:00pm Wasserstein Hall 1019, Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA More than 30 years have passed since AIDS first appeared in the United States. Today the CDC estimates that 1.1 million Americans are living with HIV/AIDS, and each year 50,000 Americans are newly diagnosed.…
Current Legal Issues in HIV/AIDS Work Thursday, March 27, 2014, 12:00pm Wasserstein Hall 1019, Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA More than 30 years have passed since AIDS first appeared in the United States. Today the CDC estimates that 1.1 million Americans are living with HIV/AIDS, and each year 50,000 Americans are newly diagnosed.…
High hopes for overcoming the HIV epidemic rest to a large extent on HIV Treatment-as-Prevention (TasP). Large cluster-randomized controlled trials are currently under way to test the effectiveness of different TasP strategies in general populations in sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, however, international antiretroviral treatment (ART) guidelines have already moved to definitions of ART…
By I. Glenn Cohen My wonderful HLS colleague Matthew Stephenson has just launched the Global Anticorruption Blog (GAB). As it happens, his first two posts may be of interest to BOH readers, especially those may be of interest to readers interested in international aid for public health projects, of the sort supported by the Gates…
By Jeremy Kreisberg In November of 2013, CMS became concerned that hospitals and other providers might help their patients purchase insurance by contributing to their premium payments or cost-sharing obligations. The motivation for providers was clear: if the amount they could expect to receive from an uninsured patient (likely very little, if anything) was less…
