Press by Matthew M. Kavanagh

press by Matthew M. Kavanagh

In The News

March 2, 2025

U.S.A.I.D. Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid

In The News

February 7, 2025

Up First: Trump And Gaza, Migrants At Guantanamo, USAID Staff On Leave

In The News

February 5, 2025

What to Know About USAID, the Agency Elon Musk Wants Dead

In The News

February 5, 2025

Despite Waiver, Many US-Funded HIV Programmes Remain Paralysed; Trump Orders Face Protests, Lawsuits

In The News

February 3, 2025

WHO chief asks countries to push Washington to reconsider its withdrawal

In The News

February 3, 2025

Can DOGE shut down federal agencies? Elon Musk seems to think so

In The News

February 3, 2025

Trump challenges Congress’ power with plan to shutter USAID, legal experts say

In The News

February 1, 2025

Donald Trump says he stopped $50 million for condoms going to Gaza. Is it true?

In The News

January 30, 2025

Aid experts dismiss Trump’s ‘Gaza condoms’ spending claim

In The News

January 29, 2025

Fact check: $50 million for condoms in Gaza? Five big reasons to be skeptical Trump’s story is true

In The News

January 28, 2025

Trump’s ‘stop-work’ order for PEPFAR cuts off anti-HIV drugs for patients

In The News

January 25, 2025

Health professionals weigh a world without the U.S. in the World Health Organization

In The News

December 30, 2024

Injectable ARVs: The new technology in the fight against HIV and AIDS

Statement

December 13, 2024

A Tribute to A. Cornelius Baker

In The News

December 12, 2024

Countries’ Protection of Health Workers is Haphazard with Significant Gaps

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

Press Release

July 24, 2024

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

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

January 19, 2024

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

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

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

June 16, 2023

Uganda’s anti-gay law will hurt all Ugandans

In The News

April 26, 2023

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

Press Release

March 31, 2023

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

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

August 18, 2021

WHO blasts COVID booster push for wealthy as world’s poor go unvaccinated

In The News

July 21, 2021

Pfizer will turn to a plant in Africa to help supply the continent with vaccines next year.

In The News

July 18, 2021

Fauci Says Lab Leak Remains a Possibility, But Covid’s Natural Origins Theory Is a More Likely Explanation

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 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 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

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

May 3, 2021

US Weighs Loosening Vaccine Patents to Help Global COVID Fight

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

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

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 report: COVID likely 1st jumped into humans from animals

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 12, 2021

Wealthy Nations Accused of Blocking Access of Lower-income Nations to COVID-19 Vaccines

In The News

January 20, 2021

US will rejoin WHO in one of first acts of Biden presidency

In The News

January 13, 2021

Experts answer your questions about COVID-19 vaccines

In The News

December 31, 2020

Coronavirus cases in Wuhan may be far higher than thought, according to China CDC study

In The News

December 10, 2020

What Trump plans to do with America’s leftover COVID-19 vaccines

In The News

December 9, 2020

Trump Signs Order To Ensure “Americans Have Priority To Receive Vaccines”

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

In The News

July 18, 2020

Donald Trump is hoping for a covid-19 treatment by November

In The News

April 15, 2020

World Health Organization Replies to Trump Funding Threat With Call for Unity

In The News

April 8, 2020

‘We will have many body bags.’ WHO chief responds to Trump’s criticisms

In The News

April 1, 2020

The president who cried hoax? Experts weigh in on Trump’s use of the word

In The News

March 30, 2020

World leaders who denied the coronavirus’s danger made us all less safe

Announcement

March 25, 2020

(Re)Introducing the Global Health Policy and Politics Initiative

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 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

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

June 17, 2019

Q&A: Why ‘self-reliance’ is the wrong goal for US aid

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

February 4, 2019

International Expert Group Calls on WHO’s Emergency Committee to Reconvene; Declare Ebola a Public Health Emergency

Press Release

November 29, 2018

As Ebola Epidemic in the DRC Grows to the Second Largest in History, High Level Expert Panel Calls on the U.S. and World for Immediate Action to “Avoid Failure”

Statement

June 6, 2018

United National Interactive Preparatory Hearing on Tuberculosis

Press Release

December 18, 2017

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

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