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Social Protection in Germany: Current challenges and lessons learnt from an ongoing reform process
by Roland Hackenberg
Discussion Papers on Social Protection - Issue No. 4, June 2010
“Can someone please push that cow out of the door?!”
Methadone substitution in Nepal - Public Private Partnerships (PPP) - 2 pp. 1.5 MB
Central Asia: hotspot in the worldwide HIV epidemic
by Claire Thorne, Nina Ferencic, Ruslan Malyuta et al.
The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Vol. 10, Issue 7, pp. 479-488, July 2010
The HIV epidemic in central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) has accelerated since 2000. This expansion in the epidemic is largely attributable to escalating injection drug use, reflecting central Asia’s geographic position along major drug trafficking routes.
Three cents a day is not enough: Resourcing HIV-related Harm Reduction on a Global Basis 
by Gerry V Stimson, Catherine Cook, Jamie Bridge et al.
The International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA), 2010 (48 pp. 443 kB)
The report shows the small amount of money being invested in harm reduction. Spending on harm reduction needs to be increased urgently and dramatically, especially for direct frontline services.
The Wisdom of Whores
Of sex and science. Elizabeth Pisani’s blog about HIV and other sundry things.
Elizabeth Pisani talks about "Sex, drugs and HIV -- let's get rational"
South-South Cooperation: The Same Old Game or a New Paradigm?
Poverty in Focus Number 20 
Editors: Rathin Roy and Melissa Andrade
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2010
This latest issue of the “Poverty in Focus” presents eleven innovative articles discussing the current state-of-art of South-South Cooperation, perspectives for the future and their development impact and the growing presence of the emerging countries in the international cooperation scenario. A central issue raised in the magazine is whether South-South cooperation represents a chance for reshaping the cooperation practice and discourse, putting at the centre the development needs and challenges of the countries in our developing world.
Providing HIV/TB Care at the Primary Health Care Level
Khayelitsha Annual Activity Report 2008-2009
Médecins Sans Frontières, February 2010
The Khayelitsha programme in South Africa has been held up as a best practice model across the world. This report attempts to summarise the various programmes and shows among others that antiretroviral therapy is feasible in poor settings, antenatal HIV prevalence can be stabilised and a decentralised, nurse-led service is possible.
New understanding of how two antibiotics attack drug-resistant strains of TB
from TropIKA Home Feed by Paul Chinnock (24 Feb. 2010)
Researchers have shown how viomycin and capreomycin bind with the ribosome of M. tuberculosis. With this knowledge it maybe possible to develop new drugs.
New research fuels "test and treat" debate
From: PlusNews- Global HIV/AIDS News and Analysis (22 February 2010)
The "test and treat" approach is based on mathematical modelling and pairs aggressive HIV testing campaigns with almost immediately putting people found to be HIV positive on treatment. In theory, this model would use early treatment to lower viral load (the amount of virus in the blood), and lower the likelihood of transmission, eventually cutting HIV prevalence rates.
