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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Faculty Research Online
Goodwill Everyone has some amount of "altruistic capital," an intrinsic desire to serve, says Associate Professor Nava Ashraf, who has studied what best motivates hairdressers in Zambia to provide HIV/AIDS education in their salons. See... View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
nations, but the diseases' effects and potential impact on businesses and organizations is only recently coming into stark relief, particularly in Africa and Asia. Approximately 38 million adults and children in Africa and Asia (including Eastern Europe) were estimated... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Service Leadership Fellows
group of faculty and administrators who worked on the program. Fellowship recipients and the organizations for which they will work included (back row) Mark Bearn, African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnership (in Botswana); Rob Zeaske,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
wants to understand the barriers to effecting change on global issues such as health care." Under Ray Gilmartin's leadership, Merck has launched an unprecedented number of new drugs and forged partnerships with the public and nonprofit sectors to help battle View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
In developed countries, tuberculosis has been nearly eradicated, thanks to good nutrition and antibiotics. But those remedies are not available to 90 percent of the world’s population, and 1.7 million people die each year from the disease. Malaria and View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Late Start, Dramatic Finish
bold new strategy for dealing with the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa,” team member Lyn Baranowski wrote in the Harbus. Noting that the case encompassed ethics and leadership issues as well as marketing challenges, she added, “When the GSK... View Details
- Profile
Paul Wang
projects included a study on “the effect of adding one extra teacher to first-grade classrooms” and an HIV/AIDS education study. Jumping into the business arena Paul’s African experiences reinforced his commitment to international... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
low-cost HIV/AIDS drugs to Malawi. “I’m the guy who still can’t believe I got to go to school here.” After traveling around the world this fall, Moret will take a position in McKinsey’s Washington, D.C., office, where he hopes to spend... View Details
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
example that could inform change is in the successful representation of minorities in tests for novel HIV/AIDS drugs. Black patients make up roughly 30 percent of the patients taking part in clinical trials for these medicines, compared... View Details
- Profile
Funa Maduka
paid off: recruited as an assistant in the Clinton Foundation's HIV/AIDS Caribbean program, Funa found herself responsible for advising ministries on nine islands when her director fell ill. Meanwhile, a chance encounter at a Hillary... View Details
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HIV/AIDS and poverty Oxfam's Global Innovation Lab for Equality (aGILE) to develop solutions to systemic inequality and global poverty. Are you interested in making a real difference? Join the Community today. Join the Community View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
MacCormack said that his organization has been working harder than ever to exert influence over public policy. "We don't want aid to Afghanistan to be spent at the expense of fighting HIV/AIDS in Africa," he remarked. "These funds should... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
partnership with the Republic of Botswana to bring HIV/AIDS treatments into the country. He discussed how and why values drive his company's practices. “Our responsibility is not just discovering great drugs, but helping people gain... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
with our academic link to Africa, Harvard professor Caroline Elkins. A historian who specializes in African studies, Elkins helps us understand the continent’s people and past. By the end of the trip, we have an idea why HIV/AIDS has... View Details
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
unaffordable (which the pharmaceutical company Cipla did with HIV/AIDS drugs in Africa), and that brought housing to urban poor (one of building materials maker CEMEX's accomplishments in Mexico). Based on our research, we believe the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
crucial role in helping to combat Ebola in Liberia. Founded in 2007 to serve the most remote of Liberia’s 15 counties grappling with the HIV/AIDS crisis, Last Mile Health recruits, trains and supports community members not already in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
hundreds of millions of rural poor into the market system (as China Mobile did by bringing mobile phone service to the Chinese countryside), that brought medicine where it had been unaffordable (which the Indian pharmaceutical firm Cipla did with View Details
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
Jossey-Bass, 2007 (forthcoming) Abstract It is more than mere coincidence that the incidence of HIV/AIDS occurs in the world's poorest countries. Of the more than 40 million people currently living with HIV, 95 percent are in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Milk, and Management As a Leadership Fellow for the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI), John Kim (MBA ’08) never had the same kind of day twice. On one day, he might take a bumpy flight and a four-hour drive to check out a health center... View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
to second-line drug regimens, 3.8% had died, and only one patient had been lost to follow up. A costing analysis done by the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative suggested that the model could feasibly be spread to other districts. Dr. Agnes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace