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Announcement

September 19, 2024

The O’Neill Institute Announces Capacity Building Director Sarah L. Bosha’s Move to Center for Global Health Politics and Policy

In The News

August 6, 2024

Undocumented people do not have access to healthcare – report

Press Release

July 24, 2024

Collaborative Study on Community Engagement in Country Coordinating Mechanisms Wins 2024 Robert Carr Research Award

Announcement

July 10, 2024

The O’Neill Institute Welcomes Leading Public Health Expert Nina Schwalbe as Senior Scholar

In The News

May 23, 2024

How Big Pharma kept COVID-19 vaccine negotiations in South Africa secret

In The News

May 22, 2024

Moderna’s Outsized Price Ask for COVID Vaccines in South Africa Highlights Need to ‘Rein in Corporates’ in Pandemics

In The News

May 11, 2024

Organisations vie for control over pandemic financing

In The News

April 23, 2024

RISE Up!

Announcement

April 10, 2024

The World Health Organization and O’Neill Institute Launch Health and Care Worker Policy Lab

In The News

January 19, 2024

With Harsh Anti-L.G.B.T.Q. Law, Uganda Risks a Health Crisis

In The News

December 5, 2023

Cryptococcal meningitis: new report highlights slow uptake of guidelines shown to reduce deaths in Africa

In The News

December 5, 2023

Cryptococcal meningitis: new report highlights slow uptake of guidelines shown to reduce deaths in Africa

In The News

December 4, 2023

Decriminalization of Homosexuality Fuels HIV Progress

In The News

December 1, 2023

Decriminalization of Gay Sex Boosts Global HIV Response: Report

In The News

November 16, 2023

‘Remarkable Reversal’ of Same-Sex Criminalisation Enables Progress Against HIV

In The News

November 14, 2023

Así moldean las leyes la batalla global contra el VIH

Press Release

November 14, 2023

Two Thirds of Countries Now Do Not Criminalize Same-Sex Sex: HIV Policy Lab Report Finds Wave of Progress Accompanied by Dangerous Threats to LGBTQ+ People In Out-of-Step Countries

Press Release

October 11, 2023

Georgetown University’s O’Neill Institute and School of Health Announce the Establishment of the Center for Global Health Policy & Politics

In The News

September 13, 2023

‘From Vegetables to Potatoes to Shoes’: Experts Express Frustration at UN Declarations on Pandemics, Universal Health Coverage and Tuberculosis

In The News

September 7, 2023

Interview with Matthew Kavanagh

In The News

July 28, 2023

Successful US AIDS Relief Program Faces Challenge in Congress

In The News

April 26, 2023

New UNAIDS Collaborating Center Addresses Health Inequities in HIV/AIDS Through Law and Policy

Press Release

April 12, 2023

New UNAIDS Collaborating Center at Georgetown Leverages Strengths in HIV/AIDS Law, Policy, and Politics

Press Release

March 31, 2023

O’Neill Institute Welcomes Back Matthew Kavanagh After United Nations Appointment

In The News

March 10, 2022

The looming COVID-19 treatment equity gap

In The News

December 6, 2021

Asia-Pacific wants to live with Covid. Omicron is threatening those reopening plans

In The News

December 4, 2021

Anger simmers over Omicron travel bans in southern Africa

In The News

December 2, 2021

“Deberían avergonzarse”: la ómicron sumerge el planeta en un ‘dilema del prisionero’ en bucle

In The News

November 30, 2021

Omicron’s Travel Bans Rest on Shaky Logic

In The News

October 17, 2021

Only One in Seven COVID-19 Cases Get Detected in Africa

In The News

October 14, 2021

WHO AFRO Press Briefing on the COVID-19 Pandemic And Vaccine Rollout in Africa

In The News

October 14, 2021

Africa detecting just 1 in 7 COVID-19 cases, says WHO study

Announcement

September 16, 2021

O’Neill Institute Director Matthew Kavanagh Appointed as Special Advisor to the Executive Director for Policy, Advocacy, and Knowledge at UNAIDS

In The News

July 21, 2021

UNAIDS sets new targets after missing most recent goals

In The News

June 22, 2021

COVID Surge in Africa Raises Fears of a Calamity Like India’s

In The News

June 17, 2021

The COVID-19 Lab Leak Debate Shows How Experts Failed Us

In The News

June 15, 2021

Stop Saying ‘Post-Pandemic’

In The News

June 9, 2021

A U.N. Declaration on Ending AIDS Should Have Been Easy. It Wasn’t.

In The News

June 8, 2021

Biden’s global vaccine strategy draws scrutiny ahead of G-7 pandemic talks

In The News

June 7, 2021

We are a long way from vaccinating the world. Could a patent waiver help?

In The News

June 1, 2021

Understanding the Covid-19 Lab-Leak Theory

In The News

June 1, 2021

UN High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS 2021: HIVPL Data and Analysis on the 10-10-10 Targets

In The News

June 1, 2021

COVID-19 Vaccines Burnt as Shelf-Life Complicates Global Rollout

In The News

May 26, 2021

Politics Central in Push to Find COVID-19 Origin

In The News

May 15, 2021

What Would It Take To Vaccinate the World Against COVID?

In The News

May 13, 2021

When will COVID-19 vaccines be widely available globally?

In The News

May 12, 2021

Quantum drums, COVID patents and head injuries

In The News

May 10, 2021

The Next Big COVID Disaster Could Be Here

In The News

May 7, 2021

Can Biden’s Vaccine Patent Waiver End the Pandemic?

In The News

May 7, 2021

Montana Tribe Gifts Vax to First Nations & Other Neighbors in Canada

In The News

May 6, 2021

In shock move, US backs waiving patents on COVID vaccines

In The News

May 6, 2021

This Small Canadian Drugmaker Wants to Make J&J Vaccines for Poor Nations. It Needs More Than a Patent Waiver.

In The News

May 6, 2021

What it means for the U.S. to back waivers on coronavirus vaccine patents

Statement

May 5, 2021

Statement from Matthew Kavanagh on U.S. Support for TRIPS Waiver

In The News

May 5, 2021

Biden administration supports waiving intellectual property rules on vaccines

In The News

April 30, 2021

Vaccine companies and the U.S. government snubbed WHO initiative to scale up global manufacturing

In The News

April 29, 2021

Health Experts Slam Biden’s ‘Massive’ Global Leadership Failure

In The News

April 28, 2021

Rich countries refuse to waive their intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines

In The News

April 27, 2021

India’s COVID crisis highlights global vaccine inequity

In The News

April 26, 2021

US loosens export restrictions to help India’s ‘full-blown’ coronavirus crisis

In The News

April 21, 2021

A new US-led malaria initiative has African scientists calling for the “decolonization” of donor funding

In The News

April 21, 2021

Why waiving patents might not boost global access to coronavirus vaccines

In The News

April 19, 2021

How ‘vaccine passports’ could exacerbate global inequities

In The News

April 16, 2021

Vaccine hesitancy runs high in some African countries, in some cases leaving unused doses to expire.

In The News

March 29, 2021

WHO Says COVID-19 Likely Started With Animals, Not Laboratory Leak

In The News

March 29, 2021

WHO report says transmission from animal is most likely source of coronavirus: report

In The News

March 29, 2021

WHO Wuhan report leaves question of coronavirus origins unresolved

Statement

March 29, 2021

Statement from Matthew Kavanagh on WHO’s COVID Origins Report

In The News

March 25, 2021

1 report, 4 theories: Scientists mull clues on virus’ origin

In The News

March 20, 2021

Drug companies defend vaccine monopolies in face of global outcry

In The News

March 1, 2021

Donors bet a U.S. firm could transform disease testing in Africa. Then COVID-19 hit

In The News

February 8, 2021

US malaria project attacked as ‘scientific colonialism’

In The News

January 30, 2021

On the anniversary of Covid-19 becoming an official public health emergency, experts say it’s time for a change

In The News

January 13, 2021

Experts answer your questions about COVID-19 vaccines

In The News

January 8, 2021

Memo To People Of Earth: ‘Third World’ Is An Offensive Term!

Press Release

November 30, 2020

HIV Policies In Most Countries Are Not Aligned With International Standards, Undermining Progress Against AIDS, New Report Shows

Press Release

September 29, 2020

New HIV Policy Lab uses law and policy data in the HIV response

Press Release

July 22, 2020

New COVID-19 Legal Database

Announcement

March 25, 2020

(Re)Introducing the Global Health Policy and Politics Initiative

In The News

March 21, 2020

The Coronavirus Pandemonium

In The News

March 18, 2020

How the U.S. Can Defeat Coronavirus: Heed Asia’s Lessons from Past Epidemics

In The News

March 17, 2020

As Coronavirus Pandemic Delays 2020 Primaries, Is It Time To Worry About the November Election?

In The News

March 13, 2020

What We Can Learn From Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong About Handling Coronavirus

In The News

March 9, 2020

Funding HIV Globally Could Have Helped Halt Coronavirus

In The News

March 7, 2020

How to Control the Spread of the Coronavirus: Lessons from Taiwan

In The News

March 1, 2020

Trump’s Efforts To Muzzle Health Officials and Downplay Coronavirus Mirror the Tactics of an Authoritarian Regime, Experts Say

In The News

February 24, 2020

Global Fears Rise as Coronavirus Spreads Beyond China

In The News

February 23, 2020

COVID-19’s Wuhan Lockdown, A Month On

Press Release

February 13, 2020

Do Authoritarian Regimes Have an Advantage in an Outbreak Response?

In The News

February 8, 2020

Chinese Officials Note Serious Problems in Coronavirus Response. The World Health Organization Keeps Praising Them.

In The News

January 31, 2020

WHO Declares Novel Coronavirus Outbreak a Public Health Emergency

In The News

January 28, 2020

Is the World Prepared for the Next Pandemic?

In The News

December 2, 2019

New UNAIDS Head Visits Soshanguve

Press Release

October 10, 2019

Experts Show U.S. Foreign Policy Gains from a Presidential Pandemics Effort

In The News

August 14, 2019

FDA approves tuberculosis drug that works on hard-to-treat cases

In The News

May 15, 2019

New HIV Map Offers Most Detailed Look Yet At The Epidemic

Press Release

May 14, 2019

Georgetown study shows aid from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria linked to reducing corruption, better governance

In The News

February 12, 2019

What It Will Take For Trump To End AIDS ‘Beyond’ America

Press Release

December 18, 2017

Removing the Global AIDS Coordinator from State Department Could Have “Profoundly Negative Impact,” Report Finds