HIV Archives - USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health

Global Systemic Evidence Review: Getting to the Heart of Stigma

Posted on August 9, 2021August 9, 2021

USC IIGH, in collaboration with the USC Southern California Evidence Review Center, is carrying out a comprehensive systematic review of tools, measures and interventions designed to address and mitigate against the harmful ... read more →

HIV and the Law: Evaluating Impact

Posted on August 9, 2021August 13, 2021

HIV Global Project for the Evaluation of The Global Commission on HIV USC IIGH, with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is conducting an evaluation of the relevance, effectiveness and impacts of... read more →

Removing legal and structural barriers to ending AIDS by 2030: Lessons from the Global Commission on HIV and the Law

Posted on July 21, 2021December 20, 2021

On June 21, 2021, USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health (USC IIGH) Director Sofia Gruskin and Director of Research Laura Ferguson presented their evaluation on the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, published wit... read more →

Present IIGH and UNDP work reflects the long-term impacts of global collaboration

Posted on March 20, 2020June 18, 2020

The USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health team has been working with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in sub-Saharan Africa on a series of evaluations relating to projects addressing the legal environ... read more →

USC IIGH Engages in Partnership Building in Kenya

Posted on March 20, 2020June 18, 2020

The leadership of the USC Institute for Inequalities in Global Health (IIGH) team has developed relationships and partnerships around the world for more than two decades on a range of critical global health issues. That expe... read more →

Oral HIV Self-Testing for Men Who Have Sex with Men in Brazil

Posted on March 4, 2020March 19, 2020

On March 10, 2020, USC IIGH hosted Herta Oliveira, Visiting Scholar, USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, Keck School of Medicine,PhD Student, University of São Paulo, Brazil, for a presentation titled "Oral HIV ... read more →

Sustainable Development Goals, HIV & Human Rights: Advancing Equality, Inclusion and Justice

Posted on August 8, 2018December 20, 2021

In this Aug. 29 lecture, Director of the United Nations Development Programme’s HIV, Health and Development Group Mandeep Dhaliwal presented on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, HIV and human rights with commentary prov... read more →

From evidence to action: challenges for the Brazilian Unified National Health System in offering pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV to persons with the greatest vulnerability

Posted on May 2, 2018May 2, 2019

Pre-exposure sexual prophylaxis (PrEP) has been considered strategic and promising in controlling the HIV epidemic globally. However, it is necessary to transpose the knowledge accumulated by efficacy and demonstration studie... read more →

Assessing changes in HIV-related legal and policy environments: Lessons learned from a multi-country evaluation

Posted on February 23, 2018May 2, 2019

There is growing recognition in the health community that the legal environment—including laws, policies, and related procedures—impacts vulnerability to HIV and access to HIV-related services both positively and negative... read more →

Sofia Gruskin: We must follow California’s example and repeal archaic HIV laws

Posted on December 15, 2017January 7, 2019

California made national headlines when it repealed an HIV criminalization law and reduced penalties for exposing other people to the virus, writes Sofia Gruskin in her BMJ blog Dec. 15. She calls for other ... read more →