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TRANSLATING HIV/AIDS GLOBAL HEALTH RESEARCH INTO INTERNATIONAL POLICY:

Experiments in Public Health, Politics, and Advocacy. TRANSLATING HIV/AIDS GLOBAL HEALTH RESEARCH INTO INTERNATIONAL POLICY: . Anand Reddi Sujal Parikh Memorial Symposium on Health and Social Justice University of Colorado School of Medicine Email: anand.reddi@ucdenver.edu.

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  1. Experiments in Public Health, Politics, and Advocacy TRANSLATING HIV/AIDS GLOBAL HEALTH RESEARCH INTO INTERNATIONAL POLICY: Anand Reddi Sujal Parikh Memorial Symposium on Health and Social Justice University of Colorado School of Medicine Email: anand.reddi@ucdenver.edu

  2. Sujal Parikh’s Legacy “Sujal was, in all arenas, the embodiment of John F. Kennedy’s words: a man whose horizons were never limited by the obvious realities, a man who dreamed of things that never were — and a man who gave his entire life to the advancement of the right to health. As we mourn a friend who personified audacity in all that he did — our generation’s Jonathan Mann — we must rededicate ourselves a hundred-fold to advancing Sujal’s dream. To do anything less would be the gravest of injustices.” — Ali Khan, MD, MPP, PHR Board Member

  3. U.S. Global Health Policy: HIV/AIDS and Maternal and Child Health • Is global health aid focused on HIV/AIDS a good (or bad) use of development aid towards improving maternal and child health? • Do HIV/AIDS treatment initiatives distort “health priorities” at the expense of other diseases? • Is HIV/AIDS cost-effective vis-à-vis other global health priorities? More importantly, what is cost-effectiveness?! • Can medical students affect U.S. Global Health Policy?

  4. The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) "I ask the Congress to commit $15 billion over the next five years, to turn the tide against AIDS in the most afflicted nations of Africa and the Caribbean" President George W. Bush State of the union address, Jan. 28, 2003 President George W. Bush signs H.R. 1298, the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003. State Department Signing Ceremony in Washington, D.C. May 27, 2003.

  5. PEPFAR- A Game Changer Science 25 July 2008: Vol. 321 no. 5888 pp. 512-519

  6. PEPFAR Outcomes • Prevented HIV transmission in an estimated 77.6 million people • Prevented 340,000 babies from contracting HIV, provided 2.4 million patients with life-saving antiretroviral treatment • Supported the care of 11 million people including 3.6 million vulnerable children. • Outcomes reported through 09/2009 • Source: http://www.pepfar.gov

  7. President Bush’s Legacy in Africa

  8. Senator Obama / Candidate Obama “$1 billion/yr in new money 5yrs” “$50 billion by 2013” – Senator Barack Obama

  9. Colleen Denny Medical Student University of Chicago Ezekiel Emanuel MD PhD Head of the Department of Bioethics National Institutes of Health

  10. The Mother and Child Campaign • Principles for International Health Aid • “To save the most lives” • “To save young lives in particular” • “To do so using finite resources most effectively.” • Respiratory illness, Diarrheal disease, Malaria, Vaccine-preventable disease, Tuberculosis, and Maternal conditions and neonatal complications • Focus on Cost-effectiveness Denny CC and Emanuel EJ, JAMA, Vol 300, No. 17 P. 2048-2051

  11. Cost-effectiveness

  12. Cost-effectiveness (What it really means?)

  13. “Yet doubling or tripling PEPFAR’s funding is not the best use of international health funding.” • “In focusing so heavily on HIV/AIDS treatments, the United States misses huge opportunities.” • “PEPFAR fails to address many of the developing world’s most serious health threats.” • “PEPFAR has taken its $15 billion far; the Mother&Child Campaign could take it even further.”

  14. President Obama’sGlobal Health Initiative - Inception Chronology • Sen. Obama elected President (Nov. 4 2008) • JAMA Global Health commentary (Nov. 5 , 2008) • Rahm Emanuel appointed Chief of Staff (Nov. 6, 2008) • President Obama inaugurated (Jan. 21, 2009) • Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel named senior healthcare advisor to President Obama (Feb. 14, 2009) • President Obama announces Global Health Initiative (May 5, 2009)

  15. Leeper and Reddi, AIDS, 2010 Arguments • HIV affects children, mothers, families, and healthcare workers • HAART saves lives and money (aka cost-effective) • HIV/AIDS Global Health Initiatives can advance and synergistically reinforce MCH and the overall healthcare infrastructure of the recipient country

  16. AIDS Funds: Benefits Anand Reddi1and Sarah C. Leeper2 SARAH C. LEEPER Medical Student Brown University SOM

  17. At Front Lines, AIDS War Is Falling Apart By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Published: May 9, 2010

  18. Obama’s Overdue AIDS Bill By DESMOND TUTU July 21, 2010 “HAVING met President Obama, I’m confident that he’s a man of conscience who shares my commitment to bringing hope and care to the world’s poor. But I am saddened by his decision to spend less than he promised to treat AIDS patients in Africa.”

  19. United States Global Health Policy: HIV/AIDS TreatmenT Funding At Risk Under President Obama By Anand Reddi July 21, 2010 @ 10:24AM EST “Confronting illness in isolation -- whether by funding PEPFAR at the expense of programs that target maternal or child health or vice versa -- cannot be our way forward. We should be advocating for funding both PEPFAR and maternal and child health together instead of favoring one program over another.”

  20. The HIV/AIDS Fight Needs Cooperation, Not Division By Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD July 21, 2010 @ 04:12PM EST Just today, Archbishop Desmond Tutu published an op-ed in the New York Times, echoing these criticisms, and in Huffington Post, Anand Reddi repeats these claims. Contrary to what Dr. Reddi argues, neither I nor the Obama Administration sees an "either-or" trade-off between PEPFAR and other global health priorities such as improving maternal-child health.

  21. Truth and Reconciliation: President Obama's Global Health Initiative and HIV/AIDS -- Raising the Bar By Anand Reddi July 27, 2010 @ 10:34AM EST “Dr. Emanuel claims that President Obama has "steadily increased" support for PEPFAR by "proposing an 8% increase in global health funding... including a historic $7 billion request for PEPFAR" in the President's 2011 budget. Indeed, Dr. Emanuel is correct but only in that he is misrepresenting the complete picture.”

  22. Financial Milieu

  23. Truth and Reconciliation: President Obama's Global Health Initiative and HIV/AIDS -- Raising the Bar In 2008, the United States Congress authorized the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act providing $48 billion over 5 years ($9.6 billion/year) to PEPFAR. However, President Obama's $63 billion Global Health Initiative allocated $51 billion over 6 years ($8.5 billion/year) resulting in an overall decrease in PEPFAR funding while allocating $12 billion towards other global health initiatives including maternal and child health. By not providing "new" money towards maternal and child health, President Obama has in de facto pitted HIV/AIDS funding against other global health priorities.

  24. Obama administration recommits funds towards HAART scale-up in Uganda • Additional $366 million towards PEPFAR scale-up in Uganda • Articles in The Guardian, The New York Times… “Critics, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu and Anand Reddi, a medical student at the University of Colorado School Of Medicine who serves on the AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Board of Directors, noted that the amount was well below Obama’s campaign promise to provide PEPFAR with $1 Billion/year.”

  25. Future Directions • Multinational corporations in Africa and HIV Treatment Initiatives • Anglo American model (Reddi A, The Washington Post, 2011) • Financial speculation tax on currency speculation- proceeds towards global health $4 trillion * 0.005% = $28 billion/year (Reddi A, The Washington Post, 2011) (Reddi A, The Huffington Post, 2010) • Integrated models of care – Treating HIV and other milieu health burdens

  26. Sujal Parikh and TikkunOlam/Ahimsa Sujal was an inspiration to us all, and it was evident early on that his intelligence, compassion and refusal to accept the “impossible” would lead him to the forefront of the fight for human rights equality.” — Katherine Ratzan Peeler MD

  27. The Social Network “There are many ways for us to work together and even more reasons for doing so.” — Sujal Parikh

  28. Lesson 1 in Global Health- Mentors David William Cohen, Catherine Burns HoosenCoovadia McCord Hospital Michael Weinstein (Drs. Holst, Giddy, Sunpath) AIDS Healthcare Foundation

  29. Contact Anand Reddi Email: anand.reddi@fulbrightmail.org http://www.facebook.com/globalhealthpolicy

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