They Go to Die: An Interview with Jonathan Smith
Brett Davidson
February 1, 2012
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Epidemiologist Jonathan Smith is working on a documentary film about the lives of four mineworkers who were dismissed from their jobs and sent home after contracting tuberculosis in the South African gold mines.

Why We Shouldn't Rely on Patents to Encourage Medical Innovation
Paul Silva
January 23, 2012
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In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Els Torreele of the Open Society Foundations argues against proposals to extend patents on pharmaceuticals, stating that such a move would solidify a broken innovation model that primarily serves the financial interest of the pharmaceutical industry at the expense of patients worldwide.

Why Are World Leaders Turning Their Backs on Africa?
Stephen Lewis
January 17, 2012
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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has saved and prolonged millions of lives. Yet at this precise moment when the global community should be doing all it can to support the Fund, it is under the most serious assault it has endured in its ten-year history.

Salzburg Seminar: Palliative Care for Patients with TB or HIV/TB
Salzburg, Austria
February 26, 2012
The International Palliative Care Initiative of the Open Society Public Health Program will convene a professional seminar focused on providing palliative care for patients with TB or HIV/TB coinfection. The course is recommended for physicians in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union who provide direct care to patients with TB or who play a major role in developing public health policies for the care of patients with TB.

Book Launch: Ernest Drucker's A Plague of Prisons
OSI-New York
October 11, 2011
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On October 11, Open Society Foundations fellow Ernest Drucker discusses his new book, A Plague of Prisons, a groundbreaking critique of mass incarceration in the United States and elsewhere.

Open Society Foundations Welcome Review of Global Fund Oversight Mechanisms
September 23, 2011
The Global Fund should approach risk management in a way that empowers communities and civil society to hold implementers accountable. It should also stay focused on achieving its long-term objectives of strengthening national responses to HIV, TB, and malaria and saving lives.