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The Center for Global Health Policy is an organization of physicians and scientists dedicated to promoting the effective use of U.S. funding for addressing the global HIV/AIDS and TB epidemics.
In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of persons around the world who are receiving treatment with life-extending antiretroviral therapy (ART). However, that progress is being threatened by a growing worldwide problem with tuberculosis (TB), including a rising incidence of TB strains that are resistant to the available anti-TB drugs, and a steady surge of new HIV infections—five new infections for every person put on ART.
In response, Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Education and Research Foundation and the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) established the Center for Global Health Policy (the Center) in October 2008. The Center’s mission is to ensure that policymakers, federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, and the media have access to solid, evidence-based input and guidance from IDSA/HIVMA physician scientists and other professional colleagues from both developed and developing countries.
The Center disseminates reliable, comprehensive scientific information on HIV and TB through newsletters, issue briefs, project profiles, and meetings and interviews with U.S. policymakers, members of Congress, and journalists. The Center organizes visits by U.S. policymakers to the research and program sites of IDSA/HIVMA members, both here in the U.S. and in developing countries. The Center also brings scientists from developing nations to the U.S. so they can describe to U.S. officials the reality of maintaining the worldwide progress against HIV and TB.
The Center is a project of the IDSA Education and Research Foundation, which supports research and education activities that improve patient care and provide information about infectious diseases for the benefit of physicians, scientists, health care professionals and the public. HIVMA is the professional home for more than 3,800 physicians, scientists and other health care professionals dedicated to the field of HIV/AIDS. Nested within the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), HIVMA promotes quality in HIV care and advocates policies that ensure a comprehensive and humane response to the AIDS pandemic informed by science and social justice. The IDSA Education and Research Foundation, HIVMA, and the Center for Global Health Policy are all based in Arlington, Va.
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