South Africa will likely face a number of challenges due to the effects of its AIDS-related excess mortality; the country needs programs that deliver a broader variety of services than are currently offered if it hopes to emerge as a prosperous regional power by midcentury.

I will be talking about one means by which access issometimes entirely prevented--by the imposition of taxes and tariffs on medicines and medical devices in many countries of the world.

Testimony to thePresident’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA), the first part emphasizing the strainrelated to tariffs on medicines, markups and access to essential medical interventions and the second part regarding mission creep in aid agencies.

Satisfying the needs of politicians inside the World Health Organization is not going to fight AIDS infection.

On the correlation between tariffs and access to medicine in third-world countries.

Has the $15 billionPresident's Emergency Planfor AIDS Reliefmade a difference?

Public officials are in danger of overlooking a prime opportunity to overhaul the college financing system.

If we can consider the facts about AIDS, as well as malaria and TB,then we can determine the true obstacles to treatment and eradication.