AIDS Archives - USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health

03/03/17 – Facing (Political) Backlash: Using School-based Intervention Studies to Promote Young Brazilians’ Health & Rights

Posted on February 17, 2017August 21, 2018

Brazil has been internationally recognized for its successful response to HIV/AIDS. Its rights-based approach included a broad prevention program focused on condom use, universal access to testing and subsequent care and trea... read more →

WORLD AIDS DAY: Moving beyond despair to concerted HIV activism

Posted on December 1, 2016October 2, 2020

World AIDS Day is a time for reflection, remembrance and re-energizing efforts to address HIV. The latter seems particularly critical this year as we find ourselves in a state of political, economic and social upheaval such a... read more →

Human Rights, Gender, and Infectious Disease: From HIV/AIDS to Ebola

Posted on November 1, 2016August 25, 2018

The HIV/AIDS, Ebola and Zika crises have revealed that infectious disease does not affect all global citizens equally. Among the many factors at play in making some people more vulnerable than others are human rights and gend... read more →

Program on Global Health & Human Rights presents project poster at AIDS 2016

Posted on August 10, 2016August 21, 2018

At the 2016 International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, USC Program on Global Health & Human Rights (GHHR) Director Sofia Gruskin presented an abstract at the "legal protection of people living with HIV and k... read more →

Literature review examines rights and sexual, reproductive health of women living with HIV

Posted on January 23, 2016August 21, 2018

Professors Sofia Gruskin and Shubha Kumar published “Human Rights and the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Women Living with HIV- A Literature Review,” in the Journal of the International AIDS Society this month. (more&h... read more →

Human rights and the sexual and reproductive health of women living with HIV – a literature review

Posted on December 1, 2015August 21, 2018

Introduction: Even as the number of women living with HIV around the globe continues to grow, realization of their sexual and reproductive health and human rights remains compromised. The objective of this study was to review... read more →

Human rights project continues in Democratic Republic of the Congo

Posted on November 18, 2015August 21, 2018

This month professors Laura Ferguson and Sofia Gruskin traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to conduct key informant interviews with a wide range of stakeholders, including NGO representatives, parliamentarians, r... read more →

Gendered power dynamics and women’s negotiation of family planning in a high HIV prevalence setting

Posted on October 26, 2015August 17, 2018

In sub-Saharan Africa, high burdens of HIV and unmet need for contraception often coexist. Research emphasizes the need to engage men and couples in reproductive health, yet couples' negotiations around fertility and family p... read more →

Human rights partnership continues with UNDP

Posted on June 23, 2015August 16, 2018

The USC Program on Global Health & Human Rights and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have agreed to continue to work together, building on their recently completed project entitled "Strengthening Regional a... read more →

11/04/15 – HIV Decision Making and Linkages to Care: Research and Practice from Brazil

Posted on April 1, 2015August 21, 2018

Eliana Zucchi, MPH, and Sarah MacCarthy, DSc, will provide an overview of critical issues concerning HIV/AIDS in Brazil. Although Brazil is widely recognized for its successful response in making antiretroviral treatment free... read more →