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Donor Government Funding for HIV in Low- and Middle-Income Countries in 2021

KFF

This report tracks funding levels of the donor governments that collectively provide the bulk of international assistance for AIDS through bilateral programs and contributions to multilateral organizations. Donor governments disbursed US$7.5

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Biosafety Labs, Public Safety, and Politics

Bill of Health

dollars (USD) and additional government losses at $11 billion USD due to controlling livestock movement and depopulating infected livestock. The site search was narrowed to six choices in 2008. By November of 2008, a new President was elected. The selection of the site was questioned by the Government Accountability Office.

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Systemic Failures Need Systemic Solutions: COVID-19 and Macromedical Regulation

Bill of Health

In Macromedical Regulation , 82 Ohio State Law Journal 727 (2021), we address the nation’s systemic failure to contain an infectious contagion, and we offer solutions by deriving lessons from the 2008 financial contagion.

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Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy

Bill of Health

The selections feature topics ranging from a discussion of potential pathways to enable government patent use before nonpatent exclusivities expire, to an examination of medical oncologists who receive more than $100,000 annually from pharmaceutical companies, to an analysis of the launch prices of new drugs from 2008-2021. 2022 Jun 6.

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Donor Governments Spent US$7.5 Billion on Efforts to Combat HIV/AIDS Globally in 2021, Largely Flat Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic, KFF-UNAID Report Finds

KFF

A new report from KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) and The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) finds that donor governments disbursed US$7.5

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Countercyclical Aid Is Not Enough to Fix the Broken US Approach to Public Health Financing

Bill of Health

Consider, for example, the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds Program (SLFRF) — enacted as part of the American Rescue Plan Act — which provided $350 billion in flexible aid to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments. Consider that between 2008 and 2020, U.S. public health expenditures fell by 30 percent.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: Renovus Acquires ToxStrategies

McGuire Wood

Founded in 2008, the company’s client base includes pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, health and beauty care companies, and government agencies. Renovus Capital Partners has announced it has made a majority investment in ToxStrategies.