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Andrew Green

Andrew Green is a Prospect publishing fellow.

Recent Articles

Where's Our Domestic AIDS Plan?

The U.S. expects other countries to put together a national AIDS plan before they receive funding. But we don't even have our own national AIDS strategy.

Andrew GreenJul 07, 2008

Before the United States will consider giving AIDS funding to another country, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief requires the foreign government to create and implement a national AIDS strategy. "At the core of the implementation strategy," the requirements explain, "is a robust ongoing in-country planning effort" meant to "identify relevant U.S. government agencies, existing resources, needs, gaps, partners, programs, objectives, performance measures, staffing, and technical assistance requirements."

NEEDLE EXCHANGE A GO IN D.C.

Andrew GreenApr 25, 2008

Locally funded needle exchange is officially returning to Washington. Dr. Shannon Hader, the District's HIV/AIDS czar, yesterday named the four groups who will share $494,000 in funding. The majority of the funding is slated for PreventionWorks!, the only organization in D.C. that was doing needle exchange during a decade-long, federally imposed funding ban specifically targeting the nation's capital. For the other three groups, the funding will allow them to incorporate needle exchange into their existing programs.

AN UNLIKELY HERO IN SOUTH AFRICA

Andrew GreenApr 24, 2008

There's an unusual hero emerging from the morass that is contemporary Zimbabwe: Jacob Zuma.

The president of South Africa's African National Congress party, and presidential heir apparent, this week stepped up his criticism of the Zimbabwean government and President Robert Mugabe, calling for the release of results from last month's presidential election.

CONGRESS SEES THE LIGHT ON AIDS TRAVEL BAN. BUT WILL THE ADMINISTRATION?

Andrew GreenMar 25, 2008

First Congress lifted the ban on needle-exchange funding in D.C. last December. Then yesterday brought news that lawmakers might lift a decades-old ban against HIV-positive people visiting or immigrating to the United States. What’s happening on the Hill? Are legislators ceding their bunker-mentality approach to domestic AIDS policy?

IS FUNDING FOR AIDS VACCINES A BUST?

Andrew GreenMar 21, 2008

The most promising AIDS vaccine in the pipeline was a bust -- and might actually have put participants in field tests at greater risk of becoming infected. Other trials of similar vaccines have also been called off, which raises an important question: is funding for AIDS vaccines a waste of money?

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