Global Hepatitis Report 2017

These factsheet slides from Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) provide a global snapshot of the state of the world’s HIV/AIDS epidemic. The slides present a high-level summary of the most current global estimates on the prevalence, transmission, and mortality of HIV/AIDS. The slides provide HIV/AIDS statistics for children and adults, by global region, and for specific age groups and vulnerable populations over time. The slides may be downloaded in PowerPoint format.

This case describes the rapid scale-up of South Africa’s national HIV/AIDS response from 2009 until 2015.  After providing background on apartheid, the impact of HIV/AIDS denialism, and an overview of the health system in South Africa, the case follows Minster of Health Aaron Motsoaledi’s leadership of the national department of health’s HIV/AIDS program. The case highlights how Motsoaledi and his team leveraged expertise and resources from domestic and international organizations to support ambitious testing and…

This resource pack was curated by the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University (GHELI) to support an upcoming Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “The Measles Outbreak: Why Vaccines Matter.” The multidisciplinary materials are suitable for policy makers, educators, and students wanting to understand the current measles outbreak in the U.S. and how it fits into broader narrative of the disease’s global resurgence. In 2019, four European countries lost…