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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Civil Society Perspectives on HIV/AIDS in Nicaragua, Senegal, Ukraine, the United States, and Vietnam
June 2007
Marginalized groups such as injecting drug users, sex workers, men who have sex with men, prisoners, and ethnic minorities frequently face exclusion from HIV/AIDS services, as documented in this OSI report.

Rights and Access: Promoting TB Care for Undocumented Migrants, Drug Users, and Mineworkers
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
March 24, 2009
The Open Society Institute, AIDS and Rights Alliance of Southern Africa, and Human Rights Watch presented a discussion on the vulnerabilities of undocumented migrants, drug users, and miners to TB infection, and creative approaches to providing these populations with appropriate TB care.