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The PEPFAR Files
Three-part series published in Think Global Health in July-August 2024 about how the once-beloved HIV program lost its bipartisan champions and suffered near-fatal injuries.
Pandemic Fund to Africa: Step to the back of the line
This July 2023 Think Global Health piece was the first to report specific quantitative information on first-round funding allocations to African countries from the newly-launched Pandemic Fund, and investigated the collapse of collaboration between the Pandemic Fund and its counterpart, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
PEPFAR’s 20th Anniversary Might Be Its Last
A January 2023 piece for Think Global Health. Wish I’d been wrong.
Lessons for COVID from the Most Successful Global Health Program
New York Times opinion piece (June 2022) on Biden Administration’s missed opportunities to apply precedents in US global health programming for impact.
If COVID Becomes Endemic, Women Will Bear the Burden
Globe and Mail opinion piece (April 2022) on the slippery terminology of pandemic and endemic diseases, and what it means for gendered labor.
Tackling Pandemics Means Relearning the Lessons of HIV
Foreign Policy opinion piece on essential elements of a new pandemic prevention fund. “Twenty years ago, the impossible became the inevitable due to the creation of a fund similar to what is now under discussion.”
This Time
An essay in the “What Would an Uprising Doula Do” zine: “The Wall Street Journal, for instance, describes the problem of telling time in COVID like this: “The death toll is a clock.” As though that were a new thing, as though the death toll were not the metronomic beat of white supremacy since settlers arrived in this unceded land.”
Can Deborah Birx Save Us?
Washington Post profile of the US Global AIDS Ambassador turned Coronavirus task force coordinator
Interview with UNAIDS Executive Director Dr. Winnie Byanyima
On intersectional responses and male politicians’ struggles to fight more than one pandemic at a time.
How to Survive a Footnote
On AIDS activism in the "after years."
On Impact
On 9/11, the Village People, the first monkey in space and other frequent fliers.
Elite Defenders
On Chicago 1968 and the siege of Cleveland 2016.
HIV in America: The Complicated Truth
On fake news and hidden facts about AIDS.
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Lawfare’s Chatter Podcast: America's Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa, with Emily Bass
Recorded on World AIDS Day, 2021.
Zulu Love Story
Slice Magazine's "In the Telling" podcast featuring an excerpt from Zulu Love Story, a Best American Essays notable mention.