AIDS in Black America: Findings from Focus Groups March 30, 2010 Report To inform the Greater Than AIDS campaign, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Black AIDS Institute organized a series of focus groups in fall 2009 and winter 2010 with Black Americans across the country in Chicago, Atlanta and Oakland, CA. The objective of the focus groups was to provide insight…
The Current State of the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic Tutorial January 1, 2010 Interactive This tutorial was produced for kaiserEDU.org, a Kaiser Family Foundation website that ceased production in September 2013. The kaiserEDU.org tutorials are no longer being updated but have been made available on kff.org due to demand by professors who are using the tutorials in class assignments. You may search for other tutorials to…
The U.S. Global Health Initiative: Overview & Budget Analysis November 29, 2009 Issue Brief In April 2010, the Foundation issued a policy brief examining key issues affecting the U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI). This policy brief and chartpack provide a detailed breakdown of the U.S. budget for the global health programs in President Obama’s GHI, announced in May 2009. In addition, the regularly updated Budget…
Views on the U.S. Role in Global Health Update: Toplines October 31, 2009 Poll Finding These are the complete toplines for a survey that builds on the Foundation’s previous survey work in measuring Americans’ attitudes toward U.S. global health investments and priorities. The survey tracks some questions that were asked earlier in 2009, and delves into some new questions about specific areas of global health…
Views on the U.S. Role in Global Health Update: Summary October 31, 2009 Poll Finding This is the summary of a survey that builds on the Foundation’s previous survey work in measuring Americans’ attitudes toward U.S. global health investments and priorities. The survey tracks some questions that were asked earlier in 2009, and delves into some new questions about specific areas of global health spending…
Views on the U.S. Role in Global Health Update: Chartpack October 31, 2009 Poll Finding This is a chartpack of a survey that builds on the Foundation’s previous survey work in measuring Americans’ attitudes toward U.S. global health investments and priorities. The survey tracks some questions that were asked earlier in 2009, and delves into some new questions about specific areas of global health spending…
Views on the U.S. Role in Global Health Update October 31, 2009 Poll Finding This survey builds on the Foundation’s previous survey work in measuring Americans’ attitudes toward U.S. global health investments and priorities. The survey tracks some questions that were asked earlier in 2009, and delves into some new questions about specific areas of global health spending and how aid should be distributed.…
Pulling it Together: Small $ for HIV Prevention July 28, 2009 Perspective It’s no secret that the response to the HIV epidemic domestically has not kept pace with the response to the global epidemic. And in an earlier column called America Has Gone Quiet on HIV/AIDS I wrote about the growing complacency towards the domestic epidemic revealed in our recent survey of…
Donor Funding for Health in Low – and Middle – Income Countries, 2001-2007 July 22, 2009 Report Donor governments, including the United States and European nations, provide the bulk of international funding for health in low- and middle- income countries each year. Despite significant increases in such funding, however, it still falls short of need as estimated by the World Health Organization’s Commission on Macroeconomics and Health.…
Survey Brief: Views and Experiences with HIV Testing Among African Americans in the U.S. June 1, 2009 Issue Brief This survey brief, based on the 2009 Survey of Americans on HIV/AIDS, examines African Americans’ reported views and experiences with HIV testing. The U.S. AIDS epidemic has disproportionately affected African Americans, who account for nearly half of new infections, while representing just 12 percent of the U.S. population. The brief…