HIV Archives - USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health

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, 2018January 3, 2019

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California made national headlines when it repealed an HIV criminalization law and reduced penalties for exposing other people to the virus, writes Sofia Gruskin in her BMJ blog Dec. 15.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

Implication of the Trump Administration’s Policies on Law and Global Health: Evidence and Preliminary Reflections

Posted on August 31, 2017April 4, 2019

Parveen Parmar, MD, MPH, Chief of the Division of International Emergency Medicine and also Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at Keck Medical Center of USC, presented on the Trump administration’s impacts o... read more →

Field work commences for Global Fund project in Ghana, Indonesia

Posted on August 2, 2017August 21, 2018

In July, Program on Global Health & Human Rights (GHHR) leadership traveled to two focus countries for the Global Fund Program to Reduce Human Rights Barriers to HIV, TB, and Malaria Services Baseline Evaluation project,... read more →

New project aims to reduce human rights barriers to health services

Posted on June 5, 2017August 21, 2018

Sponsored by the Global Fund, the Program on Global Health & Human Rights has launched a new project with John Snow, Inc. (JSI) to help reduce human rights barriers for health services. (more…)... read more →