scholarly journals A pandemic of the poor: Social disadvantage and the U.S. HIV epidemic.

2013 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 197-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Pellowski ◽  
Seth C. Kalichman ◽  
Karen A. Matthews ◽  
Nancy Adler
Keyword(s):  
Social Disadvantage ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Hiv Epidemic ◽  
The U.S

The United States Congress and Africanist Scholars

1991 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-13
Author(s):  
David S. Wiley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
African Studies ◽  
United States Congress ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
The U.S

Linking scholars to the Congress is difficult primarily because of the weakness of Congressional interest in Africa, but also due to the low levels of interest among academics in both Congress and its Africa foreign policy and the poor resources of African studies in the U.S. to build a foundation of knowledge useful to the Congress.

On improving the training of aircraft engineers

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 865-885
Author(s):  
Leonid B. SOBOLEV
Keyword(s):  
Aviation Industry ◽  
Information Protection ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Space Industry ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Military Aviation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Performance Results ◽  
The Military ◽  
The U.S

Subject. The article continues the discussion about the method of training aircraft engineers to work in the military and civil segments of aviation and rocket-and-space industry. Objectives. The purpose is to improve the training of Russian engineers to work in the competitive market environment, on the basis of the analysis of experience in training the aviation engineers in leading foreign technical universities. Methods. The study rests on the comparative analysis of implementation of major projects in the military and civil segments of aviation in the U.S. and Russia, as well as programs for training aircraft engineers in both countries. Results. The analysis shows that the duration of modern large military aviation projects in both countries is the same (the comparison of cost is impossible, due to information protection in Russia), while in the civil segment of the aviation industry, Russia's lagging behind is significant both in terms of the duration of projects and performance results. One of the reasons is in the poor training of aircraft engineers to work in the competitive environment. Conclusions. It is crucial to reform Russian aviation universities in terms of conformity to global trends in multidisciplinarity and differentiation of financing and research base.

AHEAD: a data resource to support the Ending the HIV Epidemic in the US Initiative (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Sullivan ◽  
Cory R Woodyatt ◽  
Oskian Kouzouian ◽  
Kristen Parrish ◽  
Jennifer Taussig ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Data Systems ◽  
Data Resource ◽  
Hiv Epidemic ◽  
Indicator Data ◽  
The U.S

UNSTRUCTURED Objectives: America’s HIV Epidemic Analysis Dashboard (AHEAD) is a data visualization tool that displays relevant data on the 6 HIV indicators provided by CDC that can be used to monitor progress towards ending the HIV epidemic in local communities across the U.S. The objective of AHEAD is to make data available to stakeholders that can be used to measure national and local progress towards 2025 and 2030 Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. (EHE) goals and to help jurisdictions make local decisions that are grounded in high-quality data. Methods: AHEAD displays data from public health data systems (e.g., surveillance systems, Census data), organized around the six EHE indicators (incidence, knowledge of status, diagnoses, linkage to HIV medical care, viral suppression, and PrEP coverage). Data are displayed for each of the EHE priority areas (48 counties Washington, D.C. and San Juan, PR) which accounted for more than 50% of all U.S. HIV diagnoses in 2016 and 2017 and seven primarily Southern states with high rates of HIV in rural communities. AHEAD also displays data for the 43 remaining states for which data are available. Data features prioritize interactive data-visualization tools that allow users to compare indicator data stratified by sex at birth, race, age, and transmission category within a jurisdiction (when available) or compare data on EHE indicators between jurisdictions. Results: AHEAD was launched on August 14, 2020. In the 11 months since its launch, the Dashboard has been visited 26,591 times by 17,600 unique users. About a third of all users returned to the Dashboard at least once. On average, users engaged with 2.4 pages during their visit to the Dashboard, indicating that the average user goes beyond the informational landing page to engage with one or more pages of data and content. The most frequently visited content pages are the Jurisdictions webpages. Conclusions: The Ending the HIV Epidemic plan is described as a “whole of society” effort. Societal public health initiatives require objective indicators and require that all societal stakeholders have transparent access to indicator data at the level of the health jurisdictions responsible for meeting the goals of the plan. Data transparency empowers local stakeholders to track movement towards EHE goals, identify areas with needs for improvement, make data-informed adjustments to deploy the expertise and resources required to locally tailor and implement strategies to end the HIV epidemic in their jurisdiction.

U.S. Guns Kill U.S. Nuns

2020 ◽  
pp. 101-130
Author(s):  
Theresa Keeley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Central America ◽  
Central American ◽  
White House ◽  
Protest Movement ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Church ◽  
The U.S

This chapter examines the murders of the churchwomen and how Reagan officials' critiques, which revealed that intra-Catholic conflict had become an integral part of United States–Central America policy with Reagan's ascension to the White House. It looks at remarks that bolster the Salvadoran junta's reputation or diminish the murders' impact on the protest movement against U.S. policy. It also discusses that the murdered churchwomen symbolized the church's championing of the poor and a U.S. foreign policy that was morally corrupt and politically unsound for training and arming their killers. The chapter cites that two murdered Maryknollers were members of a Catholic order and represented a dangerous trajectory for U.S. foreign policy and the church. It elaborates how the U.S. government aligned with conservative U.S. and Central American Catholics and amplified their perspective.

scholarly journals President Obama, poverty, and the scope and limits of social policy change

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Waddan
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Medicaid Program ◽  
President Obama ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poverty Measures ◽  
The Us ◽  
The U.S

AbstractThere has been a growing discussion in recent years about rising inequality in the U.S. Yet, this discourse, in focusing on the fortunes of the top 1%, distracted attention from the design of policy initiatives aimed at improving socio-economic conditions for the poor. This paper examines the development of anti-poverty politics and policy in the US during the Obama era. It analyses how effective the strategies and programmes adopted were and asks how they fit with models of policy change. The paper illustrates that the Obama administration did adopt an array of anti-poverty measures in the stimulus bill, but these built on existing programmes rather than create new ones and much of the effort was stymied by institutional obstacles. The expansion of the Medicaid program, which was part of the ACA, was also muted by institutional opposition, but it was a more path breaking reform than is often appreciated.

Assessing Intelligence Performance

2010 ◽  
pp. 86-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Gentry
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Theory Of Intelligence ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Intelligence Services ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Intelligence Agencies ◽  
Performance Rate ◽  
The U.S

Literatures on intelligence predominantly focus on intelligence failures, often explicitly claiming that the failures reflect the poor performance of the intelligence agencies as a whole. Despite negative claims on the performance of these agencies, politicians, citizens, and scholars often have little to discuss on intelligence performance. They seldom ask what the intelligence services do in aggregate; what their performance rate is; how the infrequent yet prominent failures compare to ongoing performance that is invisible to the outsiders because it is at least adequate; and how ignorance of the performance of the different types of intelligence activities affects the overall assessment of the intelligence services. This little discussion on some of the important aspects of intelligence performance resulted in the absence of general theory of intelligence performance. To judge better intelligence performance, understanding the functions and the nature of work of the intelligence services is a must. This article hence uses existing theory and available data to determine the theory of the whole performance of intelligence agencies. It also provides a scorecard of the recent performance of the U.S. intelligence and suggests avenues for future research.

Data-Driven Goals for Curbing the U.S. HIV Epidemic by 2030

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 557-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Bradley ◽  
Eli S. Rosenberg ◽  
David R. Holtgrave
Keyword(s):  
Data Driven ◽  
Hiv Epidemic ◽  
The U.S

Men Who Have Sex With Men and Women: Pieces of the U.S. HIV Epidemic Puzzle

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (10) ◽  
pp. 596-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adaora A. Adimora ◽  
Robert E. Fullilove
Keyword(s):  
Men And Women ◽  
Hiv Epidemic ◽  
Sex With Men ◽  
The U.S

The Fallacy Of Philanthropy

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Gomberg
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Peter Singer ◽  
Absolute Poverty ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Peter Unger ◽  
The U.S

Should we stop spending money on things we do not really need and send the money instead to groups that aid victims of absolute poverty? Garrett Cullity and Peter Unger have given renewed vigor to the well known argument by Peter Singer that we should do this. Like Singer, Cullity and Unger compare our duties to the poor to our duties when we encounter a victim of calamity, such as a child in danger of drowning. (Unger argues that our duties to the poor are even more pressing.) Singer and Unger tell us what to do and why we must do it; most starkly, Unger gives us the names, addresses, and toll-free phone numbers of four organizations to which we can donate, and the book cover tells us that the author's royalties are going equally to Oxfam America and the U.S. Committee for UNICEF. Unger dissolves the divide between theory and practice.

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