11 Mar 2010
The UK will press world leaders to agree to an ambitious action plan to get the Millennium Development Goals back on track to be achieved by 2015, Douglas Alexander said today.
The International Development Secretary used a gathering of development experts to put forward bold proposals that will input into the international negotiations ahead of a key UN summit in September, including a doublin...
11 Mar 2010
Calls on Congress to reverse President Obama’s cut to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Washington, DC — Dr. Joanne Carter, executive director of RESULTS/RESULTS Educational Fund, made the following statement before the House Committee on Foreign Affaairs Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health about the need to increase Global AIDS funding over President Obama’s budget r...
Tariro Chikumbirike, SAfAIDS Media Resource Desk
11 Mar 2010
PRETORIA - Imagine a situation where all HIV positive pregnant mothers in the world give birth to negative children. Malaria is eliminated as a public health problem within a decade in most countries, and tuberculosis prevalence is halved internationally by 2015. This might seem far-fetched especially in the developing world, but it is possible if current rates of progress by The Global Fund To Fi...
10 Mar 2010
WASHINGTON — Former president Bill Clinton and Microsoft founder Bill Gates called Wednesday on US lawmakers to boost foreign aid to fight diseases like HIV/AIDS and malaria in the world's poorest nations.
The leading philanthropists went to Capitol Hill to boost support for the so-called Global Health Initiative (GHI) and promote a crucial health aid budget bill proposed in 2009 by President B...
10 Mar 2010
Recent gains in the global fight against HIV/AIDS could be reversed as the "global economic downturn pinches poor countries' budgets and donors show signs of backing away from their promise to provide universal access to AIDS treatment," the British government together with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warned Tuesday, Reuters AlertNet reports.
"At an 'emergency meeting' in London to reinvigor...
10 Mar 2010
A review carried out by the 2009 Reference Group to the UN on HIV and Injecting Drug Use for the first time quantifies the scale of coverage of HIV prevention, treatment, and care services for injecting drug users (IDUs) worldwide. The study concludes that with, specific exceptions, worldwide coverage of these services in IDU populations is very low and unlikely to be sufficient to prevent, halt, ...
10 Mar 2010
Harare — HIV AND Aids funding from the donor community has decreased by more than 50 percent since 2006, the National Aids Council has said.
Though the council refused to give possible reasons for the decline, a senior Health Ministry official said this was linked to "undeclared sanctions".
Presenting the National Aids Spending Assessment Report for 2006 and 2007 last week, NAC financial dir...
10 Mar 2010
While drugmaking giant GlaxoSmithKline has picked up a load of good press for CEO Andrew Witty's developing world initiatives - from ploughing back some of the (tiny) profits made in Africa to the more interesting patent pool it announced for neglected tropical diseases - it is Californian rival Gilead that gets a higher approval rating at the moment from Aids campaigners. Gilead has at least nomi...
9 Mar 2010
International Development Minister, Gareth Thomas, today announced £1 million in UK aid to help the Government of South Africa purchase one billion condoms in support of a fresh HIV prevention drive.
UK aid from the Department for International Development (DFID) will provide 42 million condoms towards the one billion target helping to prevent future infections in the world’s most HIV endemic c...
AlertNet/Thomson Reuters Foundation
9 Mar 2010
LONDON - Progress on tackling HIV and AIDS could go into reverse as the global economic downturn pinches poor countries' budgets and donors show signs of backing away from their promise to provide universal access to AIDS treatment, the British government and an aid group warned on Tuesday.
At an "emergency meeting" in London to reinvigorate international efforts to fight the pandemic, the Brit...
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