Moscow AIDS Conference Blocks Drug Treatment Patients, Groups Charge
Press Release
February 14, 2008
In advance of an AIDS conference in Moscow, nearly 90 health and human rights groups from 27 countries petitioned a top health official to allow drug treatment patients to enter Russia with their medications.  more

Roma Rights Group Files Complaint Against Bulgaria for Health Care Discrimination
March 5, 2008
With support from OSI, the European Roma Rights Centre filed a complaint with the European Committee of Social Rights, charging that Bulgaria systematically excludes Roma from access to health care.  more

Health Experts Call for "Major Shift" in Global AIDS Response
Press Release
November 29, 2007
OSI and an international coalition of leading AIDS organizations have issued a declaration on the need to put legal and human rights protections at the center of HIV efforts.  more

Current Efforts to Control Outbreaks of Drug-Resistant TB Are Failing, Say Advocates
Press Release
November 8, 2007
Current approaches to diagnosing and treating tuberculosis are ineffective and do not reach the majority of people with drug-resistant TB, according to public health advocates—including OSI—meeting this week at the World Conference on Lung Health.  more

Involving the Community in Responding to TB/HIV
April 2008
Since 2004, Public Health Watch has supported 53 individuals and organizations in 38 countries to conduct monitoring and advocacy of policies on TB and HIV. more

HIV/AIDS Policy in Nicaragua: A Civil Society Perspective
January 2008
Nicaragua must take more decisive measures to prevent the HIV/AIDS epidemic from becoming a public health emergency, according to this OSI Public Health Watch report. more

Taking on Goliath: Civil Society's Leadership Role in Tobacco Control
May 2007
Using case studies from Kazakhstan, Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine, this OSI report aims to increase awareness of civil society's role in tobacco-control efforts and in improving public health. more

Time for Change: New Approaches for Managing Drug-Resistant TB in Regions with High HIV Rates
Cape Town, South Africa
November 9, 2007
Co-sponsored by OSI's Public Health Program, this meeting highlighted the urgent imperative to explore novel approaches to diagnosing and treating drug-resistant tuberculosis in southern Africa and other regions with high HIV rates.  more

Fighting TB in the European Region
Berlin, Germany
October 21, 2007
OSI’s Public Health Watch and Roma Health Program brought together leading organizations and activists from across the region for a meeting on the role of civil society and affected communities in the fight against TB.  more