Science Around the Blog - 28 Feb. 2012

In this week’s news: a video interview with Michel Sidibé, reactions to the US President’s budget request, more on the Research Works Act, the Global Fund, India’s removal from the polio list, and a video on the state of the HIV epidemic.

• Michel Sidibé - A video interview with the executive director of U.N.AIDS on the importance of diplomacy and social change in fighting the AIDS epidemic.

• The U.S. President's Budget Request: What Does It Mean For U.S. Global Health Efforts? - the webcast features a panel of global health policy experts who analyze President Obama's fiscal year 2013 budget proposal and discuss how it compares to current funding levels, what may happen as the budget winds its way through Congress, and the implications for the future of U.S. global health programs.

• Surprising news on bill H.R. 3699 - Publishing giant Elsevier announced in a statement yesterday that they are no longer supporting the Research Works Act, a bill that contains provisions to prohibit open access mandates for federally funded research and reverses the NIH's Public Access Policy that requires taxpayer-funded research to be freely accessible online.
•  Global Fund monies were finally released to South African organizations who were on the verge of shutting down.
•  A vaccine campaign gets India off the polio list – Three countries still have endemic polio -- Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria.
•  The CSIS Global Health Policy Center  prepares for AIDS 2012- HIV/AIDS and global health leaders discuss the current state of the fight against HIV/AIDS as the global community prepares for the for the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC this July.

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