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21 May 2013
Staff and partners from across the Alliance honour the life and work of Shivananda Duncan George Khan, OBE, one of South Asia’s leading HIV and LGBT activists.
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19 May 2013
On Sunday 19 May 2013, for the 30th time, grassroots organisations worldwide will commemorate International AIDS Candlelight Memorial. Communities will raise awareness around HIV, stand together with people living with HIV and remember the loved ones lost to HIV and AIDS.
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17 May 2013
Widespread discrimination, stigma and violence against men who have sex with men and transgender people is holding back the HIV response.
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08 May 2013
The Alliance is delighted to welcome AIDS Care China as our newest linking organisation. We look forward to building on the work of our previous country office in China to contribute to the HIV response in China.
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02 May 2013
The UK government has this week announced that it is to cut direct aid to South Africa by 2015. Given that the Department for International Development’s priorities in the country in recent years have been to tackle HIV and to address maternal mortality, this is worrying news for the future of the epidemic there.
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01 May 2013
As thousands of delegates travel to Malaysia to attend the 2013 Women Deliver conference at the end of this month, Shaleen - an outreach worker at a drop-in centre for sex workers – talks about the work she does to empower women to demand quality, user friendly integrated sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and HIV services.
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01 May 2013
Representatives from Linking Organisations across the Alliance will join thousands of delegates at what is being billed as ‘the largest global event of the decade to focus on the health and empowerment of girls and women’.
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01 May 2013
That is the question the Alliance will be posing to the 5000 delegates from the sexual and reproductive health and family planning community attending Women Deliver this year from 28-30 May in Malaysia.
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01 May 2013
Civil society representatives are invited to provide crucial input to a meeting that the Global Fund Board Communities and NGO delegations are organizing on 19-20 May. At this meeting they will discuss how to best support civil society and communities in the current pilot and the future roll out of the GF¹s New Funding Model (NFM).
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16 Apr 2013
A new study, designed and carried out by the network of female sex workers in Latin America and Caribbean (REDTRASEX), has documented legislation that affects sex work - as well as detailing what this means in practice.
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12 Apr 2013
This week the Alliance hosted a workshop to explore practical ways for our Linking Organisations to better understand their results. The participants were specifically tasked with developing a new set of indicators to measure the impact of Alliance programmes. Two workshop participants tell us what they had learnt.
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09 Apr 2013
As the Global Fund to Fight to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria launches its fourth replenishment bid for US$ 15 billion, Arben Fetai, Senior EU Policy Advisor at Stop AIDS Alliance, a joint initiative by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and STOP AIDS NOW! writes about the events in Brussels this week which highlighted the critical need to defeat the three diseases.
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09 Apr 2013
Yesterday’s announcement that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is to target $15 billion to effectively fight the three diseases is a welcome one. There can be little doubt that the Global Fund has, in the words of Bill Gates, “started to change the trajectory of epidemics”.
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05 Apr 2013
As the High Level Panel on the post-2015 framework prepares to submit its final report to the UN Secretary General, we outline our position on how to ensure progress on the HIV and related health needs of future generations.
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05 Apr 2013
Our annual directors meeting last month was the first face-to-face opportunity to reflect collectively on the recently launched new global strategy for the Alliance, which sets out how we aim to help bring an end to AIDS and sustain community action.
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21 Mar 2013
RedTraSex, the Latin American and the Caribbean network of sex workers, has launched a new report celebrating its 15th anniversary.
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20 Mar 2013
The UK government is to be applauded for holding firm on its longstanding commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of gross national income on aid, as announced in today’s budget.
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11 Mar 2013
The Queen of England is signing the new Commonwealth Charter today. The Charter is the culmination of months of consultation and debate among State Members of the Commonwealth of Nations and has been agreed by consensus.
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06 Mar 2013
Last week the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) announced a new collaboration with ViiV Healthcare - a joint venture of GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, and Shionogi - to work together to increase access to HIV medicines for children. We very much welcome the announcement as the initiative is an important step forward in improving treatment for children living with HIV.
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05 Mar 2013
At the ongoing CROI conference (Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections), researchers from the University of Mississippi presented the case of an infant ‘functionally cured’ of HIV. This means that the HIV virus is no longer actively multiplying in the infant, who initially tested HIV-positive.
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04 Mar 2013
Marcela Romero, Regional Coordinator of the Latin America and Caribbean Network of Transgender People (REDLACTRANS), fought for 10 years to be legally recognised as a woman in her country, Argentina.
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04 Mar 2013
Ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, we highlight the horrific violence against transgender women across the world, and the disproportionately high rates of new HIV infections within this highly stigmatised community.
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28 Feb 2013
“We are human, we exist, our human rights should not be violated”, the passionate and powerful words of Beyonce Tushabe, founder of Transgender Equality Uganda, one of the first organisations of its kind in a country where stigma and discrimination against transgender people is entrenched and endemic.
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26 Feb 2013
The Alliance has compiled a case study to share widely the preparatory work of the India HIV/AIDS Alliance (Alliance India) and its partners in advance of an audit by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria in late 2012.
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26 Feb 2013
The Alliance has been working with International Civil Society Support (ICSS) and ICASO to mobilise the global HIV community around a new framework to replace the Millennium Development Goals after 2015.
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25 Feb 2013
Alliance Linking Organisation, Kimirina, is pleased to share a photo- gallery of its project to prevent and control malaria in Ecuador.
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12 Feb 2013
The Alliance is coordinating a number of high profile policy seminars in Europe and the U.S. to present a groundbreaking report featuring the testimonies of transgender women who experience extreme levels of violence and impunity in Latin America.
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04 Feb 2013
Every Saturday in Munshiganj, an agricultural area outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh, a two-hour radio show entirely dedicated to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) issues is broadcast.
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04 Feb 2013
The Alliance is delighted to announce the start of a new project, Link Up, which aims to improve the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of more than one million young people in Bangladesh, Burundi, Ethiopia, Myanmar† and Uganda.
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31 Jan 2013
ViiV Healthcare has launched an online ‘tour’ of the Alliance’s Vida Digna project, which tackles HIV related stigma, discrimination and violence against key affected populations in Latin America.
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22 Jan 2013
The International Development Committee (IDC) today publishes its Post-2015 Development Goals report calling for a simple and measurable set of global targets to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) when they expire in 2015.
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21 Jan 2013
We are pleased to present our new global strategy which has been developed through wide consultation with Linking Organisations and other partners, and has been approved by you - our international board of trustees.
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15 Jan 2013
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance is seeking proposals for technical support to Linking Organisations undertaking PPTCT projects in four countries: Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria and South Africa.
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14 Jan 2013
The Alliance is seeking applications from consultants to provide tailored technical support focused on the continuum of prevention, HIV testing and care and support for men who have sex with men (MSM), working with partner organisations in Algeria, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia.
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08 Jan 2013
The Alliance’s Linking Organisation in Haiti, POZ (Promoteurs Objectif Zerosida), has been awarded a one-year grant of US$50,000 from the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF).
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12 Dec 2012
The Latin America and Caribbean network of transgender people, REDLACTRANS, is one of 24 regional and global networks to receive funding in the inaugural year of the Robert Carr Civil Society Networks Fund.
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07 Dec 2012
Media release issued by BONELA, the Alliance's linking organisation in Botswana.
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05 Dec 2012
The Alliance, along with the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS and UNDP, are co-ordinating the UK launch of the report by the Global Commission on HIV and the law on 6 and 7 December 2012.
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30 Nov 2012
Timed to coincide with World AIDS Day, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has unveiled the PEPFAR Blueprint: Creating an AIDS-free Generation which provides four individual roadmaps for how the US Government will work to achieve an AIDS-Free Generation.
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29 Nov 2012
Alliance Linking Organisations in Latin America and the Caribbean, along with their strategic partners REDLACTRANS and RedTraSex, have used the occasion of World AIDS Day 2012 to sound a warning about the impact of criminal law being applied to those who transmit or expose others to HIV infection.
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29 Nov 2012
As we mark World AIDS Day 2012 we do so with the knowledge that, if new opportunities are seized, for the first time in the global HIV response, achieving an HIV-free generation† is possible.
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27 Nov 2012
Alliance Linking Organisations across the globe have organised a host of events to mark World AIDS Day 2012 (1 December).
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23 Nov 2012
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance warned today that Uganda’s 'Anti-Homosexuality Bill' would have a disastrous impact on the country’s HIV response if it becomes law.
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20 Nov 2012
The Alliance is speaking this week at a UK parliamentary event on health in the post-2015 development framework.
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20 Nov 2012
The new UNAIDS report on the Global AIDS Epidemic for 2012 indicates that recent progress on the HIV response has been uneven and that, since 2001, the number of people newly infected in the Middle East and North Africa increased by more than 35% and that there has also been an increase in new HIV infections in Eastern Europe and Central Asia in recent years.
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05 Nov 2012
Children living in families affected by HIV often face increased levels of distress, anxiety and depression. So how can we support these children to live better lives?
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02 Nov 2012
The Alliance has co-authored a new piece of research, published in the Global Health Public Journal, which argues for stronger linkages between formal health systems and community systems.
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02 Nov 2012
Danish Minister for Development Cooperation, Christian Friis Bach, has announced a DKK 25 million (US$4.4m) grant from the Danish government to support Alliance programming for men who have sex with men (MSM) in Africa.
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01 Nov 2012
As the target date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, global and country level discussions have kicked off on what a post-2015 development framework should look like.
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01 Nov 2012
The 43rd Union World Conference on Lung Health takes place from 13-17 November in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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01 Nov 2012
The overall number of new TB cases is gradually declining globally, yet the number of multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) incidences is alarmingly on the rise, meaning progress made in the TB response is at risk of being undermined.
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31 Oct 2012
The first ever HIV and Islam conference is to be held in Malaysia, 19 to 21 November.
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29 Oct 2012
To inform new global guidelines for HIV treatment, WHO has asked the Alliance and GNP+ to help ensure the voices of civil society and communities are heard in determining how ARVs are provided in the future.
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24 Oct 2012
Lynne Featherstone MP, the new UK Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at DFID has underlined the UK’s continuing support to the HIV response.
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24 Oct 2012
Without a human rights-based approach, investments in HIV may not be effective or reach those most in need.
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24 Oct 2012
From 2–5 October this year, the Alliance’s Linking Organisations and networks in Latin America and the Caribbean family came together in their annual ‘Blue Sky Week’ regional meeting.
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16 Oct 2012
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria’s 2012 results report has acknowledged the International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine’s HIV prevention work.
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12 Oct 2012
We are pleased to announce that the Alliance has been part of a successful bid for a new contract to supply critically needed technical support to Global Fund grantees through a project called Grant Management Solutions (GMS).
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10 Oct 2012
To mark the International Day of the Girl Child we look at the work VMM, one of our Linking Organisations in India, is doing to tackle child marriage and support vulnerable girls.
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05 Oct 2012
Ukrainian and international LGBT organisations and human rights advocates are calling for the withdrawal of homophobic bill No. 8711 which threatens the basic human rights of LGBT people in Ukraine.
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05 Oct 2012
This paper identifies the HIV response as one of the most successful and innovative of recent global movements, with the potential to champion a more integrated and collaborative response to global public health issues.
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01 Oct 2012
The Global Fund Board has adopted in principle a new funding model. Here we assess the model against our own ‘key principles’ and outline how civil society is involved in refining the process of how money will be allocated.
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01 Oct 2012
“Before we focus on the next set of goals we must remember to deliver on existing ones,” said Justine Greening, UK Secretary of State for International Development, speaking at the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Countdown event on 26th September, co-hosted by the UK and US governments.
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01 Oct 2012
The latest eAlert from the Capacity Building Knowledge Exchange Network (CBKEN) eAlert focuses on the role of organizational capacity building in Kenya. Our Linking Organisation, KANCO, is featured.
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01 Oct 2012
Following a concerted action by our What's Preventing Prevention? campaign, the Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers met in New York on Saturday 29 September and agreed to adopt in full the outstanding recommendations of the Eminent Persons Group – which include the prioritisation of law reform for a more effective response to HIV.
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28 Sep 2012
Horizontal learning exchanges are one of the innovative ways that we drive knowledge sharing between our Linking Organisations (LOs).
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28 Sep 2012
"This is not just meeting, this is meaningful meeting”, these are the words of Sonal Mehta from Alliance India, who attended the Alliance’s regional Blue Sky Week for Asia and Eastern Europe this September.
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28 Sep 2012
The Alliance will be participating in the European Commission’s European Development Days from 16-17 October 2012.
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27 Sep 2012
Kuala Lumpur, 17 September 2012 - Malaysian AIDS Council (MAC) expresses its disheartenment over the introduction of guidelines to help parents and teachers identify gay and lesbian ‘symptoms’ in schoolchildren, published recently by Yayasan Guru Malaysia Bhd and the Putrajaya Consultative Council of Parents and Teachers Association.
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27 Sep 2012
Over the past three years, the Alliance’s regional Technical Support Hubs have provided over 12,000 days of support to Alliance Linking Organisations and other civil society organisations. Twenty-five percent of this has been for Global Fund grant support.
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24 Sep 2012
The governments of the UK and US are hosting an event titled MDG Countdown 2012 during the United Nations General Assembly, in New York on 26th September. The work of Alliance Zambia will be profiled in a panel discussion on creating healthy families through empowered women.
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19 Sep 2012
The Alliance’s Linking Organisation in Ecuador, Kimirina, held an innovative event in Quito on July 5th to mark Gay Pride Day.
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13 Sep 2012
La Alianza Internacional VIH/SIDA (International HIV/AIDS Alliance) quiere expresar su apoyo y acompañamiento a la Asociación Atlacatl Vivo Positivo, organización de enlace de la Alianza en El Salvador.
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07 Sep 2012
The Here I Am campaign is a global call on world leaders to save millions of lives by supporting a fully funded Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.
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03 Sep 2012
As the Global Fund Board prepares to meet (12-14 September) a new funding model is being developed so that money to help end AIDS, TB and malaria can begin to flow again in 2013. Here we highlight some of the options being considered and the key principles we believe should be upheld during the decision making process.
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03 Sep 2012
There is a growing acceptance that an integrated approach to HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is essential to improved HIV and SRH outcomes. The Alliance will be sharing its growing experience at the Integration for Impact Conference in Kenya this month.
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03 Sep 2012
For many people living with HIV, punitive laws for sex work or sodomy offences make it impossible for them to access HIV services. As Ministers gather in New York this month to agree how the Commonwealth must reform, the Alliance’s ‘What’s preventing prevention?’ campaign reasserts its appeal for Commonwealth countries to repeal laws that impede effective responses to HIV.
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30 Aug 2012
The Community Action on Harm Reduction (CAHR) project has released its 2011 Annual Report.
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28 Aug 2012
In a country battling widespread corruption, it is significant for Alliance Ukraine’s management of a $183M Global Fund Grant to be praised by the Fund’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for appropriate grant management.
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23 Aug 2012
We’re proud to report that the work of India HIV/AIDS Alliance has been recognised at the India NGO Awards.
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15 Aug 2012
SUNRISE-OVC, a project which aims to reach over 1m vulnerable children in Uganda with high quality care and services, has been officially launched by Uganda’s Minister for Youth and Children’s Affairs and USAID.
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09 Aug 2012
This weekend, on the closing day of Olympic Games, David Cameron and Brazil’s Vice President Michel Temer are hosting the Global Hunger Event, aiming to generate the political will and leadership to address malnutrition.
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31 Jul 2012
Over 50 Alliance delegates who attended the International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) were there to draw attention to human rights approaches.
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31 Jul 2012
We welcome the new Robert Carr Civil Society Networks Fund, which aims to secure stronger funding flows to civil society networks, to sustain vital work with under-represented and under-resourced groups.
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31 Jul 2012
As delegates from across the HIV response left the International AIDS Conference last week, there was a worrying division between those working to find the latest scientific advances and those defending the rights of people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS. Unless we can bridge this divide, we will never bring an end to AIDS.
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25 Jul 2012
As the International AIDS Conference convenes in Washington DC, the Alliance joined thousands of activists for the We Can End AIDS march.
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25 Jul 2012
The Alliance stressed the importance of human rights based approaches to HIV and AIDS at a reception attended by the ‘royalty’ of the international AIDS movement at the British Embassy in Washington DC on 23 July 2012.
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24 Jul 2012
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance welcomes the announcement by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the International AIDS Conference in Washington that the U.S. Government is to develop an AIDS-Free Generation Blueprint by World AIDS Day 2012 (December 1).
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24 Jul 2012
The Alliance joins the Inter American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) in condemning the extremely high levels of violence towards lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender and inter-sex (LGBTI) people in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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23 Jul 2012
The Alliance is proud to announce that Tanya Deshko of Alliance Ukraine has been presented with the Levi Strauss & Co Pioneer Award for her contribution to the fight against HIV and AIDS.
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22 Jul 2012
Ahead of the International AIDS Conference, 450 delegates participated in a symposium to discuss how community-based programs are central to international efforts to prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT).
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19 Jul 2012
The findings in UNAIDS’ new ‘Together We Will End AIDS’ report offer considerable food for thought.
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18 Jul 2012
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance welcomes the decision by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve the daily use of the antiretroviral drug, Truvada, for people at high risk of HIV, if it is used as part of a comprehensive HIV prevention strategy.
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16 Jul 2012
Lynette Lowndes, the Alliance’s Deputy Executive Director and Director of Field Programmes, is speaking at 'Doing global health - in the context of crisis, conflict and disaster', a conference organised by the Centre for Global Health Policy at the University of Sussex on Tuesday 17 July.
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12 Jul 2012
Young people from countries across East Africa spent last week learning how football can help tackle AIDS and HIV prevention as part of the Alliance and Albion in the Community’s (AITC) unique ‘Football Fighting Back’ project.
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11 Jul 2012
The final report of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, entitled “HIV and the Law: Risks, Rights and Health,” presents a coherent and compelling evidence base on human rights and legal issues relating to HIV.
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11 Jul 2012
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance welcomes the pledges and commitments made by governments and donors at today’s London Summit on Family Planning led by the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Gates Foundation.
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11 Jul 2012
The special issue of the Journal of the International AIDS Society on community action to end paediatric AIDS features Alliance work in Uganda.
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09 Jul 2012
Alliance work in Uganda, South Sudan and India features in a new UNAIDS review which aims to address the information gap around the essential and complementary role of communities in efforts to stop HIV transmission to children and enable their mothers to remain healthy.
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05 Jul 2012
We have re-launched our impact site to show the progress made last year against the targets in our 2010-12 strategy, HIV & Healthy Communities.
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05 Jul 2012
A debate in the UK House of Lords on 4 July 2012 acknowledged the work of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and urged the UK government to demonstrate their continued leadership by increasing their contribution to the Fund.
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04 Jul 2012
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance welcomes the decision by the US Food and Drug Administration to approve the first over-the-counter HIV test but raised a question mark over what the implications are for countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America where the HIV burden is heaviest.
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02 Jul 2012
That is our message for the 20,000 people who work in the field of HIV, as well as policy makers, people living with HIV and other individuals committed to ending the pandemic who will convene at the International AIDS Conference in Washington DC later this month.
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02 Jul 2012
The Alliance will ensure that community action on AIDS is visibly and meaningfully represented at the 19th International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC, USA on 22-27 July 2012.
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29 Jun 2012
The work of participants from an Alliance participatory photography workshop was featured in the first PICS (Photographic Images Changing Society) festival, held in London last month.
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29 Jun 2012
As stigma and discrimination and unsupportive policy and legal environments continue to undermine the scale up of effective, evidence based interventions to address HIV, the Alliance is holding a high profile reception at AIDS2012 to highlight the importance of human rights in an effective HIV response.
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29 Jun 2012
The London Summit on Family Planning (11 July) aims to galvanise the international community to commit to increasing access to family planning for an additional 120 million women and girls by 2020.
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29 Jun 2012
In advance of the International AIDS Conference (22-27 July) the Global Forum on MSM and HIV (MSMGF) has organised the fourth MSM (men who have sex with men) Pre-Conference (21 July) which the Alliance is pleased to be a part of.
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28 Jun 2012
The Global Commission on Drug Policy last week published a hard-hitting report spelling out how the drug war is fuelling the HIV pandemic.
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28 Jun 2012
As over 20,000 delegates prepare to gather in Washington DC for the international AIDS conference, the Alliance is co-hosting two satellite events to explore how stakeholders need to act together to scale up towards universal access to quality HIV services.
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27 Jun 2012
The Alliance is proud to report that Ginan Koesmayadi of Rumah Cemera, our Linking Organisation in Indonesia has been presented with the Levi Stauss & Co Pioneer Award.
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26 Jun 2012
In advance of the London Family Planning Summit (11 July) the Alliance is joining the UK SRHR Network and the UK AIDS Consortium in asking civil society networks and organisations to support their key messages on family planning and HIV integration.
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22 Jun 2012
We are recruiting trustees to lead the Alliance through its ambitious programme to help curb the HIV epidemic and ensure universal access to comprehensive HIV services.
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20 Jun 2012
The Alliance has been invited to become a member of the WHO Civil Society Reference Group on HIV.
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15 Jun 2012
On 20 June the European Working Group on Reproductive Health HIV/AIDS and Development will meet in Brussels to discuss the European Union’s (EU) response to HIV and AIDS and ask if it is honouring commitments it has previously made.
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11 Jun 2012
In a national event organized by Pehchan, hijras highlight discrimination and demand equality for their community.
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10 Jun 2012
The Alliance presented its work on costing community mobilisation at a multi-agency learning event held by British NGOs for Development (BOND) last month.
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07 Jun 2012
The recent recall of several secret service agents providing security for President Barack Obama during the Summit of the Americas in Colombia focused the world’s attention for a few days on the issues faced by sex workers. Sex workers continue to be subjected to threats, refusal to pay, intimidation and indeed violence in many parts of the world, including across Latin America.
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01 Jun 2012
This is an exciting time in the HIV response. The development of new HIV prevention technologies is uppermost in many minds. But in order to make the most of these opportunities, they need to become part of a community-driven combination prevention approach, combining biomedical with behavioural and structural interventions.
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31 May 2012
Many celebrated after the Global Fund announced it will have US$1.8 billion to fund new programmes until the end of 2013 and it would freeze its '55% rule’, which limits funding for middle income countries. But questions remain as to what will happen in September once the freeze is over, and how countries will fare with proposed changes to the way new funds are allocated.
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31 May 2012
Alliance Linking Organisations cite stigma as the single greatest barrier to progress in the HIV response.
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31 May 2012
Sunday 20 May saw events for the 2012 International AIDS Candlelight Memorial take place in locations across the world, a time to reflect and remember those who have died of AIDS related illnesses. Alliance Linking Organisations around the world held activities to mark the day.
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21 May 2012
The Alliance is proud to announce that it has joined Girls Not Brides, a global partnership of over 100 organisations working to end child marriage all over the world.
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18 May 2012
From 15-22 May organisations and activists in over 30 countries united to put pressure their governments to back a Robin Hood Tax as part of a global week of action.
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17 May 2012
Recent studies have shown an HIV prevalence of over 30% among transgender people in some Latin American cities. Transgender people in the region also face frequent violations of their rights and stigma and discrimination in all areas of life.
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17 May 2012
Widespread discrimination, stigma and violence against transgender people and men who have sex with men are holding back the HIV response.
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11 May 2012
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance (the Alliance) welcomes the decision by the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria today to ‘turn the tap back on’ and get back to its business of saving lives.
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09 May 2012
The Eurasian Harm Reduction Network has launched a complementary publication to our report ‘HIV, Drug Use and the Global Fund: Don’t Stop Now’.
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08 May 2012
The Alliance is warning of an impending HIV/AIDS crisis in Eastern Europe and Asia following its assessment of the impact of the cancellation of Global Fund Round 11 funding.
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04 May 2012
Jason Wright, U.S. Director of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, explains how the recently discovered PEPFAR pipelines have built up and calls on U.S. government staff to act quickly and work alongside key stakeholders in each country to create investment strategies which will translate the goal of an AIDS-free generation into a reality.
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01 May 2012
As the International Day Against Transphobia and Homophobia approaches (17 May), commitments to reach men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people must be upheld.
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30 Apr 2012
The past few years have been a tumultuous time for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.
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30 Apr 2012
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced the appointment of Prasada Rao as his new Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in the Asia Pacific region.
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27 Apr 2012
The Alliance welcomes the European Parliament’s (EP) Annual Report on Human Rights in the World, which aims to change the future direction of the European Union's (EU) human rights policy.
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25 Apr 2012
Where are the social entrepreneurs to lead innovation? What new financing models should we be investigating? On 11 April 2012, the Alliance organised a seminar designed to bring together pioneers engaged in the most innovative financing solutions to social problems.
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24 Apr 2012
Rooted in the Alliance’s approach to community mobilisation, and drawing on the diverse experience across the global partnership on health, human rights and HIV programming, this article reflects on how our Technical Support Hubs are successfully responding to civil society demands for support.
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24 Apr 2012
The Alliance has office space to rent out to other charities and not-for profit enterprises in its premises on Davigdor Road in Hove.
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23 Apr 2012
30 March saw the graduation of 101 learners who have successfully completed the accredited Thogomelo programme for community caregivers in South Africa.
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23 Apr 2012
The Alliance expresses sadness at the news that the Global Health Council will close operations within the coming months.
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17 Apr 2012
Lord Fowler, Chair of the House of Lords’ Select Committee on HIV and Vice Chair of the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on HIV & AIDS (APPG), made a parliamentary field trip to Ukraine from 10-13 April.
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12 Apr 2012
Every day millions of children around the world who are working or living on the streets face violence, abuse and exclusion.
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11 Apr 2012
Recently there has been much debate about value for money in development and health programmes.
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04 Apr 2012
In the midst of escalating violence and discrimination against transgender people in Latin America, the UNAIDS regional office in Latin America has publically condemned killings, violence, disappearances and other human rights violations against the transgender community and the wider LGBTI population.
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02 Apr 2012
Injecting drugs is the most effective way to transmit HIV. Outside of Africa it is the biggest driver of the HIV epidemic. Yet despite this, global drug policy is still not focusing on efforts to protect people who inject drugs from HIV.
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01 Apr 2012
New Delhi: Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Indians welcome the stand taken by the Government of India in the Supreme Court on the decriminalisation of homosexuality.
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30 Mar 2012
The 8th Annual Directors Meeting was hosted by Alliance linking organisation Via Libre in Peru, from 12-16 March 2012. The meeting offered a space for Alliance directors to share experiences and think collectively about a new Alliance strategy for 2020.
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29 Mar 2012
In Uganda 16 women die giving birth every day and each year more than 25,000 babies are born with HIV. Understandably, maternal health is an issue many Ugandans feel very strongly about.
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29 Mar 2012
The urgent need to address TB and HIV was highlighted by the Alliance on World TB Day this year (24 March).
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23 Mar 2012
Ahead of the World TB day on the 24 March, the UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development has released a policy briefing which highlights the need for integrated HIV and TB programming.
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23 Mar 2012
March 24 is World TB Day. TB is the most common cause of death of people living with HIV.
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19 Mar 2012
New briefing on caregivers
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13 Mar 2012
Leaders of groups for people who inject drugs took centre stage in a recent forum on HIV and drug use hosted by the Philippine NGO Support Program (PHANSuP), the Alliance Linking Organisation in the Philippines.
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09 Mar 2012
Civil society in Malaysia has quickly rallied to appeal to the Ministry of Health to reconsider its decision to cutback national HIV funding.
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08 Mar 2012
To mark International Women’s Day we look at how Alliance Zambia is helping the Zambian Government to reduce maternal mortality.
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08 Mar 2012
To mark International Women’s Day 2012 the Alliance’s Executive Director Alvaro Bermejo and Dana Hovig, Marie Stopes International’s Chief Executive, have called for better integration of family planning and HIV services to save women’s lives.
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02 Mar 2012
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine has produced three educational videos for people who inject drugs, their families and NGOs.
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01 Mar 2012
Shell Malaysia has sponsored 936 gas cylinders for 19 shelter homes for people living with HIV which are managed by partners of the Malaysian AIDS Council (MAC).
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29 Feb 2012
In response to the UK’s International Development Select Committee Inquiry on Zambia, the Alliance and RESULTS UK submitted joint evidence on the impact that Tuberculosis (TB) and AIDS continues to have on Zambia’s efforts to reach the MDGs.
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29 Feb 2012
As we mark International Women’s Day this year it is striking to see the recent debates taking place about family planning and of HIV risk, sparked in part by the recent release of the WHO technical statement on hormonal contraception and HIV, which emphasizes the need for dual protection and appropriate counselling for women.
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27 Feb 2012
The World Health Organization (WHO) has concluded that women living with HIV or at high risk of HIV can continue to use hormonal contraceptives, but that dual protection is essential to effectively prevent HIV.
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23 Feb 2012
A group of men who have sex with men (MSM) were injured today after being attacked while attending an HIV education meeting in Mombasa.
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21 Feb 2012
A new national awareness-raising initiative on prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) has been launched in Burundi.
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16 Feb 2012
Registration is now open for two important pre-conferences to the International AIDS Conference, AIDS 2012.
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16 Feb 2012
Actors including Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson, Paul Walker and Camilla Belle are to take part in a glitzy fundraiser for the Malaysian AIDS Foundation and the Global Poverty Project.
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09 Feb 2012
A groundbreaking anonymous online study of the lives of men who have sex with men (MSM) in the Caribbean is underway now.
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08 Feb 2012
Platform launched to promote dialogue with decision makers to achieve policy action on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) for young people in Manipur, India
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03 Feb 2012
The Alliance has released two calls for proposals for consultants.
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02 Feb 2012
This week the Alliance will be presenting the findings of its Ugandan Networks Project at the Irish Forum for Global Health.
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31 Jan 2012
Alliance Linking Organisation, Colectivo Sol, has launched a virtual exchange network for Mexican organisations working in HIV prevention. It is a space to meet and share proposals for implementation.
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30 Jan 2012
An innovative new toolkit to increase knowledge about grants management among implementing organisations working on Global Fund grants has been launched by the Alliance and the Global Fund.
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25 Jan 2012
Following the decision by Michel Kazatchkine to step down from the Global Fund, the Alliance reflects on his recent field visit to Ukraine where he leaves a lasting impression - and looks ahead at the task ahead for Gabriel Jaramillo, the new General Manager who is tasked to accelerate the fight against the three pandemics.
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24 Jan 2012
The Alliance is warning of an impending HIV/AIDS crisis following its assessment on the impact of the $2 billion shortfall announced by the Global Fund last year.
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18 Jan 2012
In September 2011 the Alliance Technical Support Hub for Eastern Europe and Central Asia organised a field visit to Mauritius for a Kenyan delegation of civil society and government representatives to learn about needle exchange and other harm reduction programmes for drug users.
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15 Jan 2012
The Alliance has recently received a grant from German aid agency, GIZ, to build the capacity of Alliance technical support providers around the Global Fund.
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10 Jan 2012
As the first year of the Community Action on Harm Reduction project ends, the Alliance shares some of its key achievements.
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06 Jan 2012
As part of World AIDS Day celebrations PHANSuP, the Alliance linking organisation in the Philippines supported two advocacy fun runs organised by groups of people living with HIV.
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05 Jan 2012
REDLACTRANS, an Alliance partner organisation, have produced a new video to combat discrimination against transgender people.
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20 Dec 2011
The Alliance has welcomed the release, on 15 December, of the European Commission’s 2011 contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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20 Dec 2011
Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) can be overshadowed by limited access to services, lack of information, community values and beliefs which mean women don’t access the services that are available. The fear of disclosing HIV status, stigma and discrimination and the limited resources women have available to pay for health services or treatment prevents them from seeking or using PMTCT.
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19 Dec 2011
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is launching a new service aimed at helping to prevent and mitigate drug stock-outs in countries.
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16 Dec 2011
New information system strengthens groundbreaking HIV prevention efforts for MSM and transgenders in India.
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12 Dec 2011
A new report on young people’s right to health and gender identity in Latin America and the Caribbean has been launched by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and World Health Organization (WHO) to mark Human Rights Day 2011.
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09 Dec 2011
On Human Rights Day (10 December), people all over the world celebrate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights over 60 years ago. At the Alliance on this day we reflect on the importance of human rights and human dignity to achieve better health for all and to end HIV transmission globally.
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06 Dec 2011
The Caribbean HIV & AIDS Alliance (CHAA) recently completed a successful trip to the2011 Caribbean HIV Conference where a team of fourteen people attended, most of them sponsored by USAID.
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04 Dec 2011
As the full impact of the Global Fund decision to cancel Round 11 becomes clearer, the International Secretariat of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance has endorsed a global call to action from civil society. The text of the Call is below and civil society organisations are encouraged to make their voices heard to the Global Fund and to donors.
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01 Dec 2011
A public perceptions survey conducted by Ipsos MORI and commissioned by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance has found that nearly three quarters (73%) of the British public think it is important that the UK government maintain its spending on HIV programmes overseas.
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01 Dec 2011
Decisions taken by the Global Fund ahead of this World AIDS Day will have a devastating effect on people and communities affected by HIV and AIDS, as well as TB and malaria.
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01 Dec 2011
This World Aids Day, INPUD (The International Network of People who Use Drugs) is coordinating a global protest in 10 cities around the world, to protest against drug policy in Russia.
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01 Dec 2011
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance is pleased to be part of the International Conference on Family Planning in Dakar, Senegal this week.
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01 Dec 2011
Following the news that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria had decided to cancel its next funding round, Mozambicans are faced with the very real prospect of running out of AIDS treatment by the end of 2012.
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01 Dec 2011
On World AIDS Day (December 1) 2011, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance applauds President Barack Obama’s bold leadership to achieve an AIDS Free Generation.
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30 Nov 2011
The Alliance is disappointed to see the lack of attention to global health at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, South Korea (29 Nov - 1 Dec).
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30 Nov 2011
Keeping Mothers Healthy in Zambia
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30 Nov 2011
India’s Chanura Kol is one of the few projects in the country which is specifically targeted at women who inject drugs. One of the women reached by the project is 35-year-old Babina, who wants to stop using drugs so she can support her two children.
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30 Nov 2011
Alliance Ukraine’s USAID supported SUNRISE programme is taking an innovative approach to ensure that women who are most vulnerable to HIV and their children are properly supported.
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30 Nov 2011
Women who inject drugs are particularly vulnerable to HIV.
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30 Nov 2011
This World AIDS Day, Key Correspondents from across the world have documented what life is like for mothers and their children living with HIV.
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29 Nov 2011
“It’s amazing to see what community based organisations (CBOs) can do. When you sit with CBOs they have all these ideas and strengths and while they lack the capacity, they are still willing to press on,” says Lucy Simiyu, National Partnership Platform (NPP) Coordinator in Kenya.
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29 Nov 2011
The world’s newest country is facing huge challenges in developing health infrastructure. Rakshas (tuktuks) and radio are two of tools being used to increase referrals for pregnant women.
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29 Nov 2011
Over 100,000 people were reached by the Alliance’s Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) programme.
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29 Nov 2011
As part of its new partnership agreement with Marie Stopes International, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance has developed a new self-assessment tool.
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29 Nov 2011
Alliance linking organisations, partners, technical support hubs and representatives from the international secretariat will be well represented at the International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) in December.
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28 Nov 2011
Alliance Linking Organisations across the world have organised a host of events to celebrate World AIDS Day 2011.
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25 Nov 2011
Uganda has one of the highest maternal and child mortalities in the world. Every day 16 women die giving birth and each year more than 30,000 babies are born with HIV.
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25 Nov 2011
Thirty year old Amon Banda is an unusual man. As women gather at the maternal health clinic on a hot dusty morning at Bwafwano Community Care Association, in Chazanga, Lusaka, Zambia, he joins them.
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25 Nov 2011
On 1 December the International HIV/AIDS Alliance in China will be presented with the prestigious ‘Loyalty Award’ for its dedication to working the community and people living with HIV.
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23 Nov 2011
The Alliance’s Global Health Advocacy Officer Olga Golichenko will be tweeting live from the 4th High Level Meeting on Aid Effectiveness, in Busan, South Korea (29 November – 1 December).
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23 Nov 2011
The India HIV/AIDS Alliance (Alliance India) has issued the following statement following a fire which resulted in the deaths of over 15 members of the hijra (transgender) community:
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23 Nov 2011
The Alliance is extremely alarmed by the decision of the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to cancel the next funding round (known as ‘Round 11’) due to a lack of available funding. This will have a devastating effect on people and communities affected by HIV and AIDS, as well as TB and malaria.
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21 Nov 2011
The Alliance today welcomes the UNAIDS World AIDS Day report on the HIV epidemic, How to get to zero: Faster. Smarter. Better. We are encouraged that the collective efforts of governments, civil society, communities, scientists and healthcare workers continue to show progress in tackling the epidemic.
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21 Nov 2011
To mark the 16 days of activism against gender violence, the Alliance is once again calling for an end to the killings, violence and discrimination against transgender people in Latin America.
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21 Nov 2011
The Alliance recently attended the 2011 Caribbean HIV Conference. The conference was held in Nassau, the Bahamas, between 18 and 21 November.
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18 Nov 2011
This useful graphic has been published which shows which donors and INGOs (including the Alliance) are implementing IATI (the International Aid Transparency Initiative).
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14 Nov 2011
This October the Alliance Secretariat organised a workshop which brought together Monitoring and Evaluation Officers from nine Linking Organisations (LOs) and Country Offices (COs) in East and Southern Africa.
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10 Nov 2011
Organisations are calling on the Malaysian authorities to lift a ban on the country’s annual Seksualiti Merdeka festival.
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10 Nov 2011
We are pleased to report the acquittal of Dr Ilya Podolyan after he was wrongly accused of drug trafficking in Ukraine.
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09 Nov 2011
“Creating an AIDS-free generation has never been a policy priority for the United States government—until today”, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced.
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07 Nov 2011
Earlier this year the Alliance brought together Linking Organisations and partners from East and Southern Africa for a workshop on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and HIV integration.
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01 Nov 2011
Two Alliance Linking Organisations in Africa tell us about their work, the challenges faced by the communities they work with and what they hope to gain from attending the 2011 International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) in December.
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01 Nov 2011
A campaign by the Alliance and partners, the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO) and the Commonwealth HIV/AIDS Action Group (CHAAG), with support from the Peter Tatchell Foundation, has resulted in thousands of letters being sent to Commonwealth leaders calling on Commonwealth governments to implement legal reforms and respect human rights in order to tackle HIV.
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01 Nov 2011
Involving people living with HIV (PLHIV) in shaping and delivering HIV policies and programmes in their countries is essential to an effective HIV response. However, significant barriers to involvement still exist for many groups and individuals in Africa.
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27 Oct 2011
An Alliance workshop has explored integration of maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) and community system strengthening (CSS) in East and Southern Africa.
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24 Oct 2011
The Center for Supporting Community Development Initiatives (SCDI) in Vietnam has become the newest Alliance Linking Organisation, following the decision of the Accreditation Committee last month.
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21 Oct 2011
In a packed meeting in Lusaka, Zambia, held to discuss the findings from the UKAid project to reduce HIV related maternal mortality, one of the issues that emerged is the critical need to involve men to prevent HIV transmission of mothers to their babies, and improve maternal and child health.
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17 Oct 2011
Massive flooding along the Mekong River in Cambodia has killed over two hundred people since early August. KHANA, the Alliance’s linking organisation in Cambodia, is appealing for support to help vulnerable communities in the area.
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17 Oct 2011
The Alliance has become the first civil society organisation to publish its data using the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard, which aims to make information about aid spending easier to access, use and understand.
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14 Oct 2011
The Alliance is saddened at the news that prominent HIV and TB activist Winstone Zulu has died this week at the age of 47 in hospital in Lusaka, Zambia.
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13 Oct 2011
From the 10th to the 14th October 2011, linking organisations and regional networks based in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as members of the Alliance international secretariat, took part in their annual regional meeting in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia.
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10 Oct 2011
At this years’ 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health in Lille, France, the Alliance will host a symposium titled: ‘Tackling HIV and TB through partnerships’.
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07 Oct 2011
This September the Alliance and UNAIDS co-facilitated a workshop which explored practical ways that governments can expand human rights, gender and HIV prevention in their national HIV responses.
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06 Oct 2011
Jason Taylor Wright, former USAID Office of HIV/AIDS (OHA) Multilateral Team Leader and USAID Liaison to the Global Fund and UNAIDS, will take up his new role as Director of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance USA later this month.
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03 Oct 2011
Alliance linking organisation in Peru, Vía Libre, have received the annual research award granted by Merck Sharp & Dohme Perú (MSD) for their significant contribution to the development of clinical research in Peru.
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03 Oct 2011
The news last week that the Global Fund is under-resourced and Round 11 is delayed is devastating. There is now a real possibility that lives will be at risk and the gains we have made will be lost. Now is not the time to give up. Together we must act decisively to start to turn the tide and make AIDS history.
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30 Sep 2011
Do you have something to say about health issues? Are things happening in your community that the world needs to know about?
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30 Sep 2011
Over 30 Alliance participants from 12 countries gathered in Bandung and Jakarta in Indonesia for Blue Sky Week Asia 2011 (19-23 September).
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29 Sep 2011
We are thrilled to welcome the Botswana Network on Ethics, Law & HIV/AIDS (BONELA) to the Alliance as our newest Linking Organisation.
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29 Sep 2011
In early September, Alliance India’s regional office in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, hosted a meeting to share key findings and best practices in HIV prevention. Almost 200 participants from regional and national organizations attended.
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27 Sep 2011
In an open-air amphitheatre under a night sky in Imphal, the state capital of Manipur in India’s northeast corner, 31 contestants competed for the title Miss Transgender Beauty Queen 2011. The event was coordinated as part of the advocacy work of Pehchan, a Global Fund supported project being implemented by the India HIV/AIDS Alliance.
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26 Sep 2011
The Alliance has contributed to work undertaken under the AIDSTAR-Two Project to determine how to make the health systems in Jamaica and Vietnam more effective at reducing the HIV/AIDS burden in most at risk populations (MARPs).
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26 Sep 2011
The Alliance, through its What’s Preventing Prevention? campaign is advocating to maintain appropriate levels of funding for the HIV response in South Sudan through a programme of international and policy activity.
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23 Sep 2011
The Alliance was deeply saddened to hear the news of the death of Marcel van Soest, epidemiologist and Executive Director of the World AIDS Campaign.
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19 Sep 2011
Frank Mugisha, Executive Director of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) is to receive both the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Award, and the 2011 Rafto Prize for Human Rights on behalf of SMUG.
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16 Sep 2011
We are pleased to announce that the Key Correspondents new website www.keycorrespondents.org is now live. The new site replaces healthdev.net as the place community voices speak their world to reveal the truth about health and development.
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13 Sep 2011
A participatory photography project brought together six people from five countries who are all working to increase HIV awareness and reduce stigma in their communities.
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09 Sep 2011
We meet the participants of an exciting new project from Albion in the Community, the charitable arm of Brighton & Hove Albion football club, and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
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08 Sep 2011
We meet the participants of an exciting new project from Albion in the Community, the charitable arm of Brighton & Hove Albion football club, and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
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07 Sep 2011
We meet the participants of an exciting new project from Albion in the Community, the charitable arm of Brighton & Hove Albion football club, and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
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06 Sep 2011
Eighteen people from twelve developing countries are visiting Brighton for the first time to receive specialised training on football and HIV prevention, treatment and care at the new American Express Community Stadium this week.
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01 Sep 2011
Thirty years into the AIDS epidemic, new research from the Kaiser Foundation & UNAIDS finds that donor government funding for HIV/AIDS fell for the first time in 2010. A month earlier The Lancet published a new investment framework for HIV that shows how we can better target HIV programming and curb spending on HIV over the next decade. What an increased focus on value for money mean for the community response to HIV and AIDS, and for the Alliance?
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31 Aug 2011
The 10th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) took place from 26 – 30 August 2011 in Busan, South Korea and the Key Correspondents were there to report.
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31 Aug 2011
The Latin American and Caribbean network of transgender people (REDLACTRANS) is holding a Regional workshop in Buenos Aires from 29 of August to 2nd of September to tackle the human rights abuses that transgender women in the region are so often subject to.
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30 Aug 2011
A football team made up of representatives of Alliance linking organisation Rumah Cemara performed spectacularly in this year’s Homeless World Cup.
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30 Aug 2011
Between now and December 15 Alliance linking organisations and other potential grant recipients from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria are preparing Round 11 proposals.
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27 Aug 2011
The Alliance joins civil society in condemning the recent actions by police at the 10th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP), currently being held in Busan, South Korea. The ICAAP meeting has traditionally been a space for free assembly, free speech and peaceful protest.
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26 Aug 2011
The murder of Gaby, a transgender woman, in Guadalajara, Mexico, has sparked demonstrations in the city, with activists fighting for the human rights of the transgender population.
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22 Aug 2011
South Sudan celebrated independence on 9 July 2011 but now attention is shifting to the challenging work of nation building. The Associate Parliamentary Group on Sudan and the All Party Parliamentary Group on HIV and AIDS is hosting an event at the UK parliament on Wednesday 7 September.
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18 Aug 2011
Largely neglected in the current HIV strategy in India, women who inject drugs are a highly marginalised and vulnerable population in need of a comprehensive response to meet their health and social needs.
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17 Aug 2011
The Alliance is extremely saddened by the news that Alliance trustee, Martin Dinham, has had to resign from his position as Chair of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria due to ill health.
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16 Aug 2011
A comprehensive package of services for men who have sex with men (MSM) in Eastern Europe has been endorsed by countries throughout the region, and strategies are now being developed to include the package in each country’s HIV response.
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16 Aug 2011
The Alliance has produced a discussion paper which provides a short introduction to the Investment Framework for HIV/AIDS, an important new development in global HIV policy.
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05 Aug 2011
Many Linking Organisations of the Alliance now have Facebook pages where you can ‘like’ them and stay up to date with their work.
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01 Aug 2011
This August, Alliance members from across Asia will join thousands of delegates at the 10th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP).
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29 Jul 2011
Members of two community based organisations tell us about the challenges they and the people they work with face, and what they hope to get out of attending the 10th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP).
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29 Jul 2011
A new report launching at ICAAP highlights the successes and challenges that civil society in the Southeast Asia and Pacific region has experienced when engaging with Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria processes.
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28 Jul 2011
Tackling trauma and violence, mental health, and positive living are three of the areas that 900 MSM (men who have sex with men), hijra and transgender people are being trained in as part of Alliance India’s Pehchan programme, which expects to reach 450,000 people over five years with prevention services.
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28 Jul 2011
Alliance linking organisations from seven countries in Asia came together in Phnom Penh in Cambodia for a week long learning exchange (30 May – 3 June 2011) focused on integrating sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in HIV programming.
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28 Jul 2011
AIDS and complications related to pregnancy and childbirth are the two main causes of death in women of reproductive age globally. The International HIV/AIDS Alliance and Marie Stopes International have announced a new partnership which will combine their collective strengths within the sexual and reproductive health arena: community action on AIDS and family planning.
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26 Jul 2011
As the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria prepares to launch its latest call for proposals on 15 August 2011, the Alliance Regional Technical Support Hubs are gearing up to support Alliance linking organisations and other grant recipients with technical assistance.
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21 Jul 2011
Alliance linking organisations, partners, technical support hubs and representatives from the international Secretariat will be well represented at the 10th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP).
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21 Jul 2011
Mauricio Albarracin, a Colombian lawyer and co-author of a new report produced by Colombia Diversa on LGBT rights in Colombia will speak at an event in London on Friday 22 July.
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15 Jul 2011
At the UN High Level Meeting on AIDS in June a side event took place to highlight the impact of human rights violations against those at higher risk of HIV (key populations) and to promote evidence-informed approaches to addressing HIV.
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14 Jul 2011
A learning exchange workshop was recently facilitated by representatives of the Kenyan National Partnership Platform (NPP) in South Sudan. It involved 25 participants from civil society organizations in South Sudan.
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13 Jul 2011
Bernhard Schwartländer, one of the authors of a new paper published in The Lancet that argues that substantial changes are needed to achieve a more targeted and strategic approach to investment in the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, was the keynote speaker at a high level panel discussion held in London this week.
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08 Jul 2011
As the world’s newest country celebrates on Saturday 9 July, Alliance South Sudan is taking the opportunity of being in the world’s spotlight to raise awareness of HIV and AIDS, and to advocate for access to services, particularly for HIV positive women.
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07 Jul 2011
Alliance linking organisation Community Health Alliance Uganda is part of a national coalition of activists who will gather at the Constitutional Court in Kampala on July 7 at the start of a landmark case against the Government of Uganda on maternal mortality.
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01 Jul 2011
The Alliance is co-hosting a high level panel discussion in London on 11 July to discuss the recently launched 'HIV/AIDS Investment Framework'. The event is being co-organised by the UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development and the World Bank.
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01 Jul 2011
This month sees the world’s newest country, South Sudan, come into being on 9th July. Alliance South Sudan will be celebrating the country’s independence and looking forward to further contributing to the development of civil society, in order to improve the lives of people living with or affected by HIV and AIDS.
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01 Jul 2011
In 2011, 30 years after the first diagnoses of AIDS, an estimated 34 million people are living with HIV.
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01 Jul 2011
We’re at a critical juncture for a financial transaction tax (FTT), or ‘Robin Hood’ tax in more ways than one.
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30 Jun 2011
This is the title of a new book which includes a chapter written by Dr Greg Munro, Associate Director of Technical Cooperation at the Alliance, on aligning capacity development with Global Fund grant weaknesses.
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30 Jun 2011
On 7 June the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) adopted a resolution on human rights, sexual orientation, and gender identity that reaffirms the commitments of member states made in the previous three resolutions on the issue.
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29 Jun 2011
The Malaysian AIDS Foundation (MAF) - the charitable arm of the Malaysian AIDS Council, an Alliance linking organisation - has given a new lease of life to their thirteen year Medicine Assistance Scheme which provides second line anti-retrovirals (ARVs) for underprivileged Malaysians living with HIV.
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28 Jun 2011
To coincide with the Commonwealth Law Ministers meeting in Sydney, Australia (11-14 July 2011) the film Securing the Right to Love describes the impact that punitive laws have on sexual minorities, which in turn affects our ability to reach these populations with HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.
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28 Jun 2011
“We will not be able to tackle the HIV epidemic efficiently as long as we do not also squarely address stigma, discrimination, and violations of human rights.” The comment comes from a statement made by the Danish Minister for Development Cooperation, Søren Pind, just last month at the UN High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS.
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27 Jun 2011
KANCO has intensified its campaign to fight Tuberculosis stigma by involving religious leaders in Kenya’s TB response.
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27 Jun 2011
Sixteen young people from fourteen countries are taking part in what is hoped will become an annual event to use football as a method of increasing community awareness of HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.
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23 Jun 2011
To coincide with the publication of its latest annual review and impact data for 2010, the Alliance has launched a unique visualization of the impact it is having on the global HIV epidemic.
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23 Jun 2011
The Alliance has launched a new Impact site, where we share with you progress made in 2010 against out strategy; HIV and Healthy Communities.
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17 Jun 2011
UPDATED: The Political Declaration agreed on Friday, 10 June, at the UN High Level Meeting on AIDS 2011 is crucial as it will guide the global HIV & AIDS response for the next five years. The declaration will make a real difference in the HIV response if it is honoured by governments.
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15 Jun 2011
Malaysia’s Islamic religious authorities continue to scale up efforts to address HIV related issues affecting key populations in a week long campaign spanning two states.
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09 Jun 2011
The Alliance has welcomed the publication of new HIV position paper by the UK government’s Department for International Development.
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08 Jun 2011
Daniel Ruiz Diaz from Bolivia has been living with HIV for 20 years. He is the national secretary for Red Bol, the national network for people living with HIV in Bolivia.
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07 Jun 2011
The Alliance has welcomed the new report from the Global Commission on Drug Policy that launched this week, which clearly outlines a series of recommendations on how to deal effectively and humanely with illicit drug use and people who use drugs.
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06 Jun 2011
At the UN High Level Meeting on AIDS in New York this week a side event will take place to highlight why HIV prevention must target those at higher risk of HIV (key populations).
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01 Jun 2011
The Alliance welcomes the appointment of one of its trustees, Martin Dinham, as the new Chair to the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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01 Jun 2011
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance is calling for human rights and greater access to health programmes for communities at the highest risk to be central to the new international HIV & AIDS agreement being finalized by the UN prior to the High Level Meeting which takes place next week.
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23 May 2011
You could win one of two pairs of tickets to an exclusive preview screening of the film ‘Life, Above All’ at the Tricycle Cinema in London.
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20 May 2011
Lives lost to the AIDS epidemic remembered in ceremony held at the Selangor State’s largest mosque.
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20 May 2011
The US Global AIDS Coordinator’s office has just released new technical guidance on HIV prevention for men who have sex with men (MSM).
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19 May 2011
The Evidence for Action research programme provides much needed evidence for how best to deliver HIV treatment and care. That was one of the key messages outlined yesterday at an event held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
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18 May 2011
The Alliance is pleased to partner in the showing of the film Life, Above All, an emotional drama about a young girl who fights fear and shame that have poisoned her community and challenges the stigma and discrimination of HIV and AIDS.
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16 May 2011
So say the lyrics of Lady Gaga’s hit pop song. It could also form an anthem for the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, where it serves as a potent reminder that despite all of the advances in human rights in recent years, we still find it difficult to embrace diversity around sexuality, with a direct negative impact on our ability to respond to HIV epidemics around the world.
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16 May 2011
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance welcomes the newly released results from HPTN 052 study which demonstrates that early antiretroviral treatment reduces HIV transmission amongst discordant heterosexual couples by more than 90%.
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12 May 2011
The Commonwealth HIV/AIDS Action Group (CHAAG) and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance are attending the Commonwealth Health Ministers meeting in Geneva this weekend to raise the important issue of dealing with the legal barriers that are undermining HIV responses.
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11 May 2011
The Alliance was deeply saddened to hear the news of the death of Dr. Robert Carr, an international human rights and HIV/AIDS activist who worked tirelessly to defend the health and human rights of people living with HIV, and those at higher risk from the disease.
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11 May 2011
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance is deeply saddened by the passing of David Cairnes MP.
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09 May 2011
Important steps are being taken in Malaysia by the Malaysian AIDS Council (MAC) and the Islamic religious authorities to address the HIV epidemic.
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02 May 2011
Ahead of the 41st Organisation of American States General Assembly in El Salvador in June, and as part of the Alliance’s recognition of the 7th International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia on 17 May, this article highlights the urgent need to stop the killings, violence and discrimination against transgender people and end widespread impunity for transphobia crimes, particularly in Latin America.
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28 Apr 2011
All communities have the right to equal access to high quality prevention, treatment and care services. This includes communities who are most marginalised, such as drug users, men who have sex with men, sex workers, and women.
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28 Apr 2011
In Latin America and the Caribbean a grant from the Global Fund is making a real difference to the lives of sex workers.
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28 Apr 2011
In June the UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS will take place in New York.
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28 Apr 2011
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance is saddened by the news that the Global AIDS Alliance is to close but acknowledges the huge contribution they have made to the AIDS response in the last 10 years.
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28 Apr 2011
This is the Alliance’s call to the international community as progress in the global AIDS response is being reviewed before the UN General Assembly High Level meeting taking place 8-10 June in New York.
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27 Apr 2011
On 13-14 April 2011, Alliance Ukraine was invited to Brussels by the Stop AIDS Alliance to participate in a European Parliament roundtable on 'Drug-resistant TB and TB-HIV co-infection in Ukraine - what can the EU do to curb the threat?'
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26 Apr 2011
Zambia is one of the 20 countries listed by UNAIDS where if intensified action were taken it would achieve the greatest impact on the HIV epidemic.
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26 Apr 2011
There are an estimated 70,000 children living with HIV in India and thousands more are orphaned by AIDS. Many struggle to access healthcare and education because of poverty, isolation and exclusion.
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26 Apr 2011
Kenya features on the UNAIDS list of 20 countries that would make the greatest impact on the epidemic if all parties intensified joint action.
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26 Apr 2011
Civil society, particularly those infected or affected by HIV, must be recognised and properly resourced as key deliverers of HIV services at community level and must be able to meaningfully participate in the development and implementation of government HIV related policies and programmes.
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21 Apr 2011
Following recent media reports of sixty-six schoolboys in Malaysia who have been required to attend an anti-gay camp the International HIV/AIDS Alliance is extremely concerned that this approach is undermining the Malaysian government’s comprehensive response to HIV and is breaching the children’s fundamental human rights.
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14 Apr 2011
In cooperation with various organisations the Alliance has launched a new training curriculum for Monitoring and Evaluation.
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07 Apr 2011
On the occasion of World Health Day (7 April), health donors, including the GAVI Alliance and the Global Fund, policymakers, advocates and academics are meeting at the University College London today to discuss how to improve aid for health in developing countries.
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06 Apr 2011
The UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development highlights the poor attention that care and support has received in the AIDS response.
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04 Apr 2011
Every day at noon Xiao Jun goes from office in the bustling city of Nanning. He delivers lunches and takeaways, contentedly collecting money and quickly rushing off to his next client. It’s hard to believe that just one year ago Xiao Jun was dependent on heroin.
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04 Apr 2011
The Alliance’s 'What’s Preventing Prevention?' campaign has helped to protect the rights of people receiving drug substitution therapy in Ukraine.
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04 Apr 2011
Alliance Ukraine is the largest NGO focused on HIV in Ukraine and is now one of the technical partners which are supporting the Alliance’s new Community Action on Harm Reduction project (CAHR).
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04 Apr 2011
Outside of sub-Saharan Africa, approximately 50% of HIV positive women are infected through sex with a male partner who is an injecting drug user (IDU) while between 30-35% are infected through sharing contaminated injecting equipment.
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04 Apr 2011
Outside of Africa injecting drug use is the biggest driver of the HIV epidemic. There are an estimated 3 million people who inject drugs and are HIV positive, and 13 million more at risk of infection.
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04 Apr 2011
Three months after the presidential elections designed to end a decade-long civil crisis, Côte d’Ivoire has plunged into a political crisis few imagined possible. As the crisis continues, Alliance Nationale contre le SIDA en Côte d’Ivoire (ANS-CI), warns that if HIV treatment runs out more people will die.
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31 Mar 2011
Your opportunity to input into the work of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.
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31 Mar 2011
On 8-10 June the world will come together to mark 10 years since the landmark UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS).
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29 Mar 2011
The impact of HIV on children and adolescents in Zambia is significant.
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28 Mar 2011
On 7 April, to celebrate World Health Day, Action for Global Health UK is hosting a debate on the potentials and pitfalls of using results-based financing for health in developing countries.
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25 Mar 2011
Alliance linking organisations and partners will be heavily represented at the next International Harm Reduction Conference to be held in Beirut, Lebanon, 3-7 April 2011.
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24 Mar 2011
Today is World TB Day, a reminder of the dangers of TB for those living with HIV. 33 million people are infected with HIV worldwide and 1.1 million people are co-infected with both TB and HIV.
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23 Mar 2011
This was the subject of a series of questions that Senior Adviser Kate Iorpenda at the Alliance was asked by young people through Gemin-i, a charity that connects schools around the world to teach young people about international development issues.
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18 Mar 2011
The Networks Project in Uganda came to an end in September 2009, but many of the Networks of People Living with HIV are active and still supported by Network Support Agents (NSAs).
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10 Mar 2011
Two trustees of the Alliance secretariat have been included in a list of the top 100 people fighting to improve girls’ and women’s lives worldwide.
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10 Mar 2011
The Alliance linking organizations in India, LEPRA and Alliance India jointly hosted a workshop to strengthen TB-HIV integration in Andhra Pradesh in India from the 3 to 5 March 2011.
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10 Mar 2011
Following a call to action by Alliance’s What’s Preventing Prevention campaign, the Prime Minister of Ukraine has issued an order to support the scaling up of drug substitution therapy in the country.
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08 Mar 2011
Today marks the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day but despite huge advances in medicine and healthcare many women around the world are still only able to access ‘Victorian standard’ health services, says the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
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08 Mar 2011
Today the European Parliament voted in favour of a European Financial Transactions Tax (FTT), popularly known as the Robin Hood Tax.
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04 Mar 2011
Thursday 17 February was a global day of action to push forward the Financial Transaction Tax, or Robin Hood Tax, under the French presidency of the G8 and G20.
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03 Mar 2011
As the UK Department for International Development publishes its review of overseas aid support, the Alliance has welcomed the continued commitment of the British government to the world’s poor and vulnerable, and its recognition of the valuable role civil society plays in reducing poverty and improving health.
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02 Mar 2011
On March 7, the European Parliament will vote on the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT).
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01 Mar 2011
We are pleased to announce that three Alliance Linking Organisations are Principal Recipients of Round 10 grants from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.
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28 Feb 2011
The Alliance has published a compilation of country studies which illustrate the Alliance’s work with communities in 28 different countries across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean.
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28 Feb 2011
Alliance Linking Organisation in the Philippines, PHANSuP has launched a brand new project to address the issue of high maternal and neonatal mortality rates as well as the high incidence of teenage pregnancy in the Eastern Visayas region. The project is a partnership with VICTO, a confederation of cooperatives.
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28 Feb 2011
The Alliance is expanding its programming in South Sudan to reduce HIV related maternal mortality. The project, funded by UKAID for the Department for International Development (DFID), started in October 2010 and focuses on social mobilisation, advocacy and enabling HIV positive women and their families to access effective health services*.
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28 Feb 2011
As the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day approaches on 8 March, the Alliance is renewing its call for greater integration of HIV and sexual and reproduction health services.
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23 Feb 2011
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival returns to London from 24 March - 1 April with a programme packed full of documentaries and dramas set to inspire, inform and trigger debate.
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21 Feb 2011
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance in India has launched a brand new website.
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18 Feb 2011
St Paul’s Institute, Tearfund, CAFOD and The Salvation Army have come together to host a panel debate in St Paul’s Cathedral on Tuesday 29 March 2011 at 7.00pm. The debate will focus on whether or not, and the extent to which, the financial sector has a moral role to play in contributing to the common good.
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17 Feb 2011
Thursday 17 February is a global day of action to push forward the Financial Transaction Tax, or Robin Hood Tax, under the French presidency of the G8 and G20.
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16 Feb 2011
Our Linking Organisation in El Salvador, Asociacion Atlacatl Vivo Positivo (Atlacatl), have produced a Spanish language video explaining the importance of joining the Alliance and the new services they’ve developed.
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11 Feb 2011
Kostia Pertsovskyi, Alliance Ukraine’s Senior Communications Manager, has blogged for the British Medical Journal on the government threat to drug substitution therapy in Ukraine.
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08 Feb 2011
We are pleased to announce that Alliance trustee, Carole Presern, has joined the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH).
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07 Feb 2011
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have posted a podcast in which Alliance Executive Director Alvaro Bermejo looks at how the proposed Robin Hood Tax could benefit the HIV/AIDS response across the world.
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01 Feb 2011
NGOs all across Europe and the world are scaling up their efforts to campaign and advocate for a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) as part of the Robin Hood Tax campaign. This year is pivotal because France holds the G20 Presidency, and being the country most in favour of an FTT, there are strong hopes for concrete progress being made on implementing the tax.
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01 Feb 2011
The Alliance is delighted to announce that The Zimbabwe AIDS Network is now an Alliance Linking Organisation. ZAN is a national membership network of over 200 HIV/AIDS service organisations in Zimbabwe.
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01 Feb 2011
Alliance linking organisations are struggling to deliver community-led health programmes as they continue to experience the impact of punitive laws, and law enforcement practices on their work.
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01 Feb 2011
We are delighted to welcome four organisations to the Alliance, all of whom have become accredited Linking Organisations.
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01 Feb 2011
In Ukraine most peoples’ lives have been affected by drugs in some way. A friend, brother, a husband, a mother, a child.
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01 Feb 2011
As part of its ‘What’s Preventing Prevention? Campaign’, the Alliance participated for the first time in the European Development Days which took place in Brussels on the 6-7 of December 2010.
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31 Jan 2011
In November 2010, 10 participants from the Evidence for Action international research programme, core funded by the UK’s Department for International Development, participated in a Policy and Communications workshop in Kampala, Uganda.
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31 Jan 2011
Recommendations from Via Libre’s successful integrated TB/HIV pilot project will be adopted at national level in Peru.
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31 Jan 2011
The Alliance is pleased to announce that Humsafar Trust have joined us as a Linking Organisation. Humsafar will play a key role in Alliance India’s Pehchan project.
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31 Jan 2011
The Alliance is delighted to welcome L’Alliance Burundaise Contra Le SIDA (ABS) as a Linking Organisation.
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28 Jan 2011
A young transgender woman named Cheo was found stabbed to death in Colonia de Tegucigalpa in Honduras on 2 January. Shockingly, this is only the latest in a worrying trend of hate crimes against transgender people in Latin America.
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28 Jan 2011
The latest Alliance Good Practice Guide - on HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) – has just been launched.
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27 Jan 2011
Ugandan human rights defender David Kato was brutally beaten to death in his home on 26 January 2011. The Alliance stands alongside Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) and the entire Ugandan LGBT community in condemning the killing.
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26 Jan 2011
DFID has published a compilation of case studies from twelve agencies, including the Alliance, working in the Latin American Partnership Programme Arrangement which illustrate how active citizens can achieve accountable governments in the region.
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24 Jan 2011
Patients receiving drug substitution therapy and NGOs that are supporting programmes providing substitution therapy are facing harassment and abuse from state authorities in Ukraine after orders from the Ministry of Interior’s drug enforcement department in a worrying crackdown on people trying to access health services.
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18 Jan 2011
Ukraine has been awarded the second largest grant in the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria’s Round 10 funding.
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14 Jan 2011
“The physical damage of the buildings is really shocking to see,” says Anamaria Bejar, head of the Alliance’s Latin America and Caribbean team at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
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06 Jan 2011
Following the success of the Vida Digna Project, which worked to reduce HIV stigma and discrimination in Mexico, the project model is to be extended across Central America.
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04 Jan 2011
The Ugandan High Court has ruled that articles published in a Kampala newspaper which called for homosexuals to be hanged violated the constitutional rights to privacy and safety of those named.
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04 Jan 2011
Please vote for Alliance Ukraine in the ‘Best of Kyiv 2010’ awards, which are awarded by the Kyiv Post.
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22 Dec 2010
The Alliance is delighted to announce that our partner in Mozambique, MONASO, has become the latest Alliance Linking Organisation.
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21 Dec 2010
The Alliance’s Elden Chamberlain spoke at an event in Boston on 15 December, held in recognition of International Human Rights Day, and highlighted stigma and discrimination faced by men who have sex with men in Eastern Europe.
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20 Dec 2010
Last month, a number of States proposed an amendment to remove an explicit reference to sexual orientation from an important UN resolution on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. The amendment was passed on 16 November.
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20 Dec 2010
The Alliance, in association with the UK AIDS consortium, held a very successful seminar last week focused on the issues surrounding the measurement and improvement of value for money of HIV/AIDS interventions.
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13 Dec 2010
To mark International Human Rights Day the Alliance co-hosted a roundtable discussion in Washington D.C. on human rights, HIV and men who have sex with men (MSM).
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10 Dec 2010
To mark International Human Rights Day the Alliance is today publishing a new report that outlines the current human rights challenges facing our national civil society linking organisations and their partners tackling HIV and AIDS.
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07 Dec 2010
We are pleased to publish this independent evaluation of our DFID funded Partnership Programme Arrangement (PPA) for the period 2008 – 2010.
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06 Dec 2010
To mark the launch of aids2031’s book 'AIDS: Taking a long-term view', Alvaro Bermejo, Executive Director of the Alliance, participated in a seminar at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on World AIDS Day yesterday.
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06 Dec 2010
A new team of French speaking stigma trainers has been established by the Alliance’s Regional Technical Support Hub for West, North and Central Africa to help reduce stigma and discrimination.
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03 Dec 2010
The Alliance has written a new report which details the urgent need for HIV/AIDS programmes and services for men who have sex with men in Eastern Europe.
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03 Dec 2010
The European Union released a World AIDS Day statement on Wednesday which included a strong commitment to human rights-based approaches to address HIV.
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02 Dec 2010
1 December saw the tenth anniversary of Alliance Ukraine. Initially a project with a fixed end point, Alliance Ukraine is now the largest NGO in the field of AIDS in Ukraine.
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01 Dec 2010
A new report launched this World AIDS Day warns that punitive legal environments are seriously increasing people’s risk of getting HIV
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01 Dec 2010
As it becomes increasingly important to demonstrate aid effectiveness and value for money, the Alliance has been adapting and piloting a method to measure the social return of investment (SROI) as one of a number of methods to test the value for money of specific programmes or activities.
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01 Dec 2010
Today, on the 22nd World AIDS Day, the Alliance has been marking the successes and challenges of the HIV response. Here’s a taster of Alliance activities around the world.
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30 Nov 2010
World Aids Day 2010 sees the launch of HIV Southern Africa, a brand new virtual community of health workers, development programmers, activists and advocates focused on accelerating HIV prevention in southern Africa.
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29 Nov 2010
The Alliance has successfully secured funding from the Government of The Netherlands to lead an ambitious new harm reduction programme.
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25 Nov 2010
The Alliance is delighted to announce that two of our partners, one in Haiti and one in El Salvador have become linking organisations of the Alliance.
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25 Nov 2010
Alvaro Bermejo, Executive Director of the Alliance, will participate in a seminar at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine which will preview a forthcoming AIDS2031 book which examines the pandemic’s possible progress according to a variety of scenarios.
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16 Nov 2010
Alliance Cote d’Ivoire has become civil society’s principal recipient (PR) for Round 9 of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria in the country.
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15 Nov 2010
The Ugandan Ministry of Gender Labour and Social Development is pleased to announce the release of a Request for Applications (RFA), soliciting applications from civil society and private sector organisations to serve as Zonal Technical Service Organisations (TSOs) in Uganda.
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10 Nov 2010
Alliance India has secured European Commission funding to provide advocacy and technical support on sexual and reproduction health and rights (SRHR) strategies for networks of people living with HIV (PLHIV).
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05 Nov 2010
Following the shocking details about the weekly newspaper published in Kampala, Uganda, that publicly exposed the details of homosexuals and called for them to be ‘hanged’, a judge in Uganda has now ordered the Rolling Stone newspaper to stop publishing the men and women’s details.
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05 Nov 2010
Accessing TB diagnosis and treatment services has been a challenge for many marginalised populations.
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01 Nov 2010
The 41st Union World Conference on Lung Health opens in Germany this month (11-15 November 2010) and participants will meet to discuss along with many other issues, advances in tuberculosis (TB) and HIV care.
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25 Oct 2010
A weekly newspaper published in Kampala, Uganda has caused international outrage with an article that has called for homosexuals to be ‘hanged’ and exposed names, addresses and pictures of gay men and women.
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25 Oct 2010
The Alliance has published the latest in its series of regular HIV updates. It summarises the key approaches, interventions and models of delivery that should be used when using a family centred approach to providing care and support for children affected by HIV and AIDS.
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22 Oct 2010
Successful TB/HIV pilot project launched in Peru in 2010.
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22 Oct 2010
For this year’s Asia and Eastern Europe annual Blue Sky Week (19-22 September 2010), representatives from 10 countries across the region met in Orissa, India.
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20 Oct 2010
In the face of sweeping national budget cuts announced today the UK coalition government have courageously stood by their 0.7 per cent pledge of GDP for overseas development assistance.
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18 Oct 2010
To coincide with World AIDS Day 2010, the Alliance is organising a Commonwealth HIV and Human Rights Lecture on 30 November 2010 at the Commonwealth Foundation, Marlborough House in London, UK.
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18 Oct 2010
The Stop AIDS Alliance (SAA), a joint partnership between the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and STOP AIDS NOW!, is expanding its lobbying presence from Brussels to also include Geneva and Washington.
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18 Oct 2010
A new Issues Paper has been published by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and the Commonwealth HIV & AIDS Action Group (CHAAG) as part of a wider project involving civil society and state actors which focuses on ‘Addressing the Structural Barriers to HIV & AIDS - Stigma, Human Rights and Law Reform in the Commonwealth’.
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13 Oct 2010
In 1990 three men in Mumbai, India, wondered aloud to each other, “What will happen to us in old age? Who will take care of us?” As Indians, each felt a strong sense of responsibility to his own family and each expected to care for his parents as they aged.
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13 Oct 2010
This month has seen Europe back a tax on banking activities that could raise as much as £22bn.
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08 Oct 2010
On 1 October Alliance India launched Pehchan, a new five-year project that will provide HIV prevention services for men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender and hijra communities.
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04 Oct 2010
Social and institutional violence against female sex workers in Latin America and the Caribbean has increased over recent decades.
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04 Oct 2010
As the UK coalition government works out how to deliver on the promise of the Big Society, the Alliance has launched a policy briefing which provides evidence of a model that has had real social impact – in the developing world.
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04 Oct 2010
Globally AIDS remains the main cause of death in women of reproductive age. AIDS is responsible for 1 in 5 maternal deaths. We are concerned about the noticeable lack of discussion and reporting on how to maintain the AIDS response in these challenging economic times.
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01 Oct 2010
The Vida Digna (Life with Dignity) project in Mexico has helped reduce stigma towards vulnerable populations and those most at risk from HIV. This includes gay men and other men who have sex with men, sex workers, transgender people, intravenous drug users, and people living with HIV.
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01 Oct 2010
47 participants from 15 countries across Africa came together in Maputo, Mozambique in September for the annual regional Blue Sky meeting for Alliance linking organisations and other regional partners in Africa.
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01 Oct 2010
The Alliance today welcomed an agreement between the UNITAID-backed Medicine Patent Pool Foundation (MPPF) and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to license the antiretroviral drug darunavir to the patent pool.
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30 Sep 2010
‘We’re all in the same boat’ is a new toolkit that uses art and creative approaches with young people to tackle HIV-related stigma.
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24 Sep 2010
These words are dedicated to Ivan Shekker, or ‘Vanya’, manager of one of the largest injecting drug use (IDU) harm reduction projects in Ukraine, implemented by the Eney Club in Kyiv. On August 17, 2010, Ivan died from cancer.
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24 Sep 2010
At the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Summit in New York, Andriy Klepikov, Executive Director, of Alliance Ukraine presented on ‘Addressing the special needs of the most vulnerable’.
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23 Sep 2010
Paul Higgins, Head of ICT and Farai Matsika, Data Analyst at the Alliance on the challenges and opportunities of mHealth and the work the Alliance has been doing in this sector.
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21 Sep 2010
World leaders are meeting this week at the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Summit (20-22 September) to review progress on the MDGs, which currently are perilously off target.
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21 Sep 2010
The UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights has issued a "Statement on mutual responsibility for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support in the context of the Summit on the Millennium Development Goals.
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20 Sep 2010
As world leaders gather in New York at the UN Summit to assess progress against the Millenium Development goals, the Alliance has issued a statement in support of and endorsing the UN Secretary General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health.
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17 Sep 2010
The Alliance has been working with telecommunications provider 02 to maximise the use of communications technology in support of its strategic objectives.
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17 Sep 2010
A ‘Global Week of Action’ kicks off on Monday (20-28 September) to push for a fully funded Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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14 Sep 2010
Action for Global Health (AfGH) is calling on European policy makers to become ‘Health Heroes’ by rescuing the MDGS on child mortality, maternal health, HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and other diseases.
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13 Sep 2010
The Alliance in India has signed a new contract with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for a US $25 million grant (115 crore rupees). This is the largest Global Fund grant to date to strengthen HIV prevention programming with men who have sex with men (MSM), hijra and transgender communities in their fight against HIV.
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10 Sep 2010
The Alliance Regional Technical Support Hub in South East Asia and the Pacific has agreed a technical support contract with Marie Stopes International (MSI) Cambodia on the integration of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and HIV programming.
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07 Sep 2010
A broad coalition calling for an European-wide Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) staged an action outside the meeting of EU Finance Ministers today (7 September), in Brussels.
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07 Sep 2010
World leaders are meeting in New York this month to review global progress to reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the target date of 2015. Despite some progress, it’s not looking good.
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07 Sep 2010
An external evaluation examining the impact of the Frontiers Prevention Project (FPP) has reported “dramatic results” showing that community-based prevention leads to an increase in condom use and a reduction in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among men who have sex with men (MSM) and female sex workers (FSW).
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07 Sep 2010
Andriy Klepikov, Executive Director of Alliance linking organisation International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine, has been selected to speak at one of the six NGO round-table discussions taking place at the UN MDG Summit in New York in September.
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06 Sep 2010
Two weeks after the MDG Summit in New York, on the evening of the 5th of October, we will see the results of the first test of world leaders’ promises to step up efforts to hit the ambitious Millennium Development Goals when the final total of the Global Fund’s third replenishment is announced.
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06 Sep 2010
Issues relevant to injecting drug users will be taken to Capitol Hill, during the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Summit in New York this month (20-22 September).
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06 Sep 2010
MDG 5 on improving maternal health aims to facilitate universal access to reproductive health services by 2015.
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06 Sep 2010
In August, Alliance linking organisation in Cambodia KHANA (the Khmer HIV/AIDS NGO Alliance) hosted a week-long study tour by a delegation of four European MPs (from Belgium, Spain, Lithuania and Germany).
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03 Sep 2010
The number of adolescents living with HIV is growing, particularly in low-income countries with high HIV prevalence.
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03 Sep 2010
‘Family’ is the theme of a 10 day exposition underway in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
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02 Sep 2010
Key Correspondents, who are community-based writers representing those affected by and living with HIV, have made a new video about their work.
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27 Aug 2010
Alliance partners around the world are celebrating with Rumah Cemara, our linking organisation in Indonesia, as they become global winners of the Nike-Ashoka Changemakers competition, “Changing Lives through Football”.
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23 Aug 2010
There is no doubt now that the economic crisis is affecting funding for health.
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17 Aug 2010
Niko is 29 and an injecting drug user. His friend, Ali Omar, sits in the corner and ties a bandana around his arm. Adjusting the curtain which prevents anyone peering in through the crack in his bedroom door, Niko sits down on the floor and prepares the heroin he will inject into his ankle.
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13 Aug 2010
As in much of Africa, sex between men is illegal in Kenya, a legacy of British colonial rule.
“I simply don’t understand what the problem is,” says Steven, a peer educator from Mtwapa, near Mombasa. “Why can’t they leave us alone to be what we want to be?”
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02 Aug 2010
The Alliance launched a new series of Good Practice Guides to coincide with the International AIDS Conference in Vienna last week.
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02 Aug 2010
It was personal tragedy that inspired Natalia to set up the ‘From Heart to Heart’ organisation, which includes a community centre for injecting drug users and people living with HIV, in Cherkassy, Ukraine.
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02 Aug 2010
Alliance Linking Organisations and partners from Latin America and the Caribbean gathered in the UK on 26-30 July to discuss critical issues for the region’s response to HIV.
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02 Aug 2010
Over 19,000 people from 197 countries gathered in Vienna to review ways to overcome the ever present challenge of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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02 Aug 2010
STOP AIDS NOW! – a partner of the Alliance in its policy and advocacy work in Europe through the Stop AIDS Alliance – has published Managing HIV in the Workplace: A Guide for CSOs.
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30 Jul 2010
Last year three Alliance Horizontal Learning Exchanges took place around the world; where one Alliance member visits another. Through an evaluation a year on we find out what lasting difference it has made.
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30 Jul 2010
Rumah Cemara, Alliance linking organisation in Indonesia, has been selected as one of 12 finalists for the ‘Changing Lives through Football’ award.
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23 Jul 2010
Last week (12 July) Action for Global Health hosted a civil society workshop to review the options for delivering global health aid against a backdrop of financial uncertainty and undelivered commitments.
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22 Jul 2010
At the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, the UN Special Envoy for Innovative Finance called on world leaders to ‘back the bankers tax’ - referring to the IMF’s recommendation to create new taxes on banks - and to “fill the gap”, referring to the 70% gap in people accessing lifesaving medications.
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22 Jul 2010
In July, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) signed three new grants worth € 42 million with Senegal to scale up the fight against AIDS in the country.
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19 Jul 2010
The Latin American Key Correspondents team have launched a brand new website at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna which starts today.
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19 Jul 2010
Congratulations to five Alliance supported community organisations that were among 25 community based organisations across the globe who won the 2010 Red Ribbon Award.
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17 Jul 2010
Alliance calls for more effective HIV funding for treatment and prevention
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16 Jul 2010
Alliance Myanmar, the Country Office of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, is preparing itself to scale up its support for treatment access with funding from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Malaria and TB.
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16 Jul 2010
As the largest gathering of AIDS experts convenes at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, July 18 – 23 2010, the Commonwealth Foundation and International HIV/AIDS Alliance are launching a new partnership.
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13 Jul 2010
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance (the Alliance) welcomes the adoption yesterday by the European Parliament of a Resolution on a rights-based approach to the EU’s response to HIV/AIDS. An overwhelming majority of Members of the European Parliament (400 out of 621 present) voted in favour.
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08 Jul 2010
The Alliance joins organisations around the world in welcoming the recent UK Supreme Court of Appeal judgement to categorically consider fear of persecution based on a person’s sexual orientation as a valid reason for asylum in the UK.
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05 Jul 2010
This was the message from Action for Global Health’s annual policy conference this week in London, UK.
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05 Jul 2010
As delegates prepare to gather in Vienna for the International AIDS Conference 2010: Right Here, Right Now (18-23 July), the International HIV/AIDS Alliance is preparing a campaign to highlight the unacceptable barriers to HIV prevention programmes and services which exist for those who are vulnerable and most at risk of HIV infection.
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02 Jul 2010
A new report launched at the Global Health Council’s annual conference in Washington DC in June comes at a major crossroads in the history of the response to AIDS, as funding comes under pressure at a time of economic uncertainty.
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02 Jul 2010
Susie McLean, Senior Adviser at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, voices concern about a campaign that stigmatises HIV positive parents and women who use drugs.
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02 Jul 2010
The Alliance has welcomed a new commission launched by UNDP with the support of UNAIDS, which aims to increase understanding of the impact of the legal environment on national HIV responses.
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30 Jun 2010
Two Key Correspondents, Banza Chela and Michael Gwaba, have been made ambassadors of a new international campaign seeking to replenish support for HIV and AIDS from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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30 Jun 2010
Althea, 24, is a former dancer. Since she left the entertainment industry she has wanted to use her experiences and knowledge to benefit other women in Antigua.
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30 Jun 2010
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance is upholding its commitment to communities affected by HIV and expanding its programmes, according to a newly published Annual Review for 2009, Community Solutions.
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30 Jun 2010
We are pleased to announce that from today (1 July) AIDSPortal, a global HIV knowledge sharing network, will be moving to the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
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30 Jun 2010
Vulnerable children in Uganda are set to benefit from a new $20 million, five year USAID program which aims to improve access to and quality of services.
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30 Jun 2010
Illya Podolyan is 62 and works as a doctor in Odesa, Ukraine. On 28 May 2010 he was arrested by local police for providing medical treatment to drug user patients on substitution maintenance therapy (SMT).
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23 Jun 2010
The USAID funded global HIV and AIDS project, AIDSTAR-One, has recently released a case study examining the efforts of the Alliance Ukraine to reach most-at-risk populations and prevent HIV.
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22 Jun 2010
As news rolls into the Alliance of members who are struggling to access antiretroviral treatment for people living with HIV, particularly in Africa, it is evident that the global financial crisis is hitting hard.
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11 Jun 2010
After 8 years of campaigning, in July last year the Delhi High Court in India annulled the law criminalising adult homosexual relations
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08 Jun 2010
Key Correspondent, Ishdeep Kohli, is at the global Women Deliver conference, taking place in Washington this week.
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01 Jun 2010
Internationally, the importance of linking sexual and reproductive health, rights and HIV in order to increase the effectiveness of the global response to the HIV epidemic is well recognised. The majority of new HIV infections are sexually transmitted or associated with pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding.
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01 Jun 2010
Steven Sinding, Chair of the Alliance and former Director General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), is attending this month’s Women Deliver conference, where the Alliance and ICW are co-organising the HIV track at the conference. He talks about why combating HIV is crucial to accelerate progress on maternal and child health.
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28 May 2010
The World Cup has put the spotlight on South Africa, and it’s not just football making headlines.
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28 May 2010
In India where an estimated 2.4 million people are living with HIV, life can be tough. The epidemic has created a substantial burden for children and families, but as well as hardship there is hope, as these three case studies show.
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28 May 2010
We’ve put together five of our top publications for working with communities on issues relating to gender and sexuality.
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27 May 2010
‘Make Finance Pay’ was the message that the Alliance, along with fellow Robin Hood Tax coalition members and campaigners around the world, sent to their governments during last week’s global days of action for the Robin Hood Tax.
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19 May 2010
Today the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria launched the Born HIV Free campaign to mobilise public support for a world where no child is born with HIV by 2015.
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13 May 2010
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is an international financing institution that invests the world’s money to save lives.
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13 May 2010
Alliance partner, Asociación Atlacatl Vivo Positivo, celebrated yesterday as El Salavador’s Legislative Assembly declared May 12 the first ‘National Day of Solidarity with People Living with HIV’.
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05 May 2010
Alliance linking organisation, the Caribbean HIV & AIDS Alliance, launched a groundbreaking HIV and AIDS Responsible Tourism Model at a forum at the Jolly Beach Hotel in Antigua on 30 March 2010.
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04 May 2010
The ‘People Living with HIV Stigma Index’ is designed to increase understanding of how HIV-related stigma and discrimination is experienced.
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30 Apr 2010
The European Commission has adopted a European Union action plan to speed up progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), many of which are off track.
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29 Apr 2010
We are pleased to announce the launch of the new, interactive www.OVCsupport.net, a global knowledge-sharing hub on children and HIV.
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28 Apr 2010
As news of the sterilisation of female drug users hit the UK headlines this week it has highlighted the appalling manner in which some of the most vulnerable parents and their children are treated.
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22 Apr 2010
As the International Harm Reduction Conference (IHRA) opens next week in UK the Alliance is calling for more drug user friendly healthcare and harm reduction programmes to protect injecting drug users from HIV.
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21 Apr 2010
Intravenous drug users constitute the single largest population group vulnerable to HIV infection in China. The Five Hearts Service Centre in Emei, Sichuan, China is a group of injecting drug users who work with the Chinese Government’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to run a needle exchange programme.
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21 Apr 2010
People who inject drugs are the group most affected by HIV in Ukraine. Between 70 and 80% of people living with HIV are currently injecting drugs or have done so in the past.
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21 Apr 2010
Fear of exposure and discrimination mean that women who inject drugs often remain hidden in society.
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14 Apr 2010
Concerns are being raised by the Friends of the Global Fund that HIV, TB and Malaria programmes in the Latin America and Caribbean region are going to be adversely affected by the Global Fund’s current funding shortfall.
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07 Apr 2010
In a recent trip to Uganda the Alliance saw first hand the struggle healthcare professionals are having getting treatment for people living with HIV.
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07 Apr 2010
Every minute, one woman or girl dies from complications during pregnancy, childbirth or in the first few weeks after giving birth.
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06 Apr 2010
Less than three months after the devastating earthquake, and despite enormous challenges, Alliance partner POZ in Haiti has resumed nearly all its work and is providing services and support to people living with HIV in Port-au-Prince, Cap Hatien and Jacmel.
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06 Apr 2010
Alliance India has relaunched SETU which will serve as a knowledge portal on HIV and AIDS for South Asia.
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06 Apr 2010
A new report has been released by the Mobilizing for RH/HIV Integration Initiative: Make or Break? 2010: A Pivotal Year for Scaling Up RH/HIV Integration and Accelerating Progress towards Millennium Development Goals 5 and 6.
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06 Apr 2010
So far this year in Guatemala 13 transgender people have been murdered and a 20 year old transgender person is missing.
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01 Apr 2010
The Alliance’s National Partnership Platform in Vietnam – the Vietnam Civil Society Partnership Platform on AIDS – is successfully strengthening the voice of civil society in the HIV response.
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01 Apr 2010
Working with experienced journalists and Key Correspondents, a communications project by the National Partnership Platform in Vietnam is taking community members’ experiences up to policy makers, and helping to bring about real change.
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31 Mar 2010
On 25 March, merry men and women, accompanied by angry bankers and confused Heads of State, gathered on Place Luxembourg outside the European Parliament to launch Brussels’ campaign for a financial transaction tax (FTT).
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31 Mar 2010
HASAB, Alliance partner in Bangladesh, is running some inspiring programmes to reach the most vulnerable and marginalised members of the community, such as men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender people and sex workers, and people living with HIV, with HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.
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31 Mar 2010
A project which will improve access to HIV services in Sudan for vulnerable populations, has secured a five year contract.
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30 Mar 2010
The Alliance’s partner in Colombia, LigaSida, has been awarded the status of Champion NGO as formal recognition of its work, which follows the Code of Good Practice for NGO’s responding to HIV/AIDS.
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29 Mar 2010
A new study published by PLoS Medicine has highlighted a strong link between tackling HIV and other non-communicable diseases and achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
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29 Mar 2010
Action for Global Health held its Cross Europe Conference in the European Parliament, entitled: Delivering the right to health with the health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): What the EU can do!
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24 Mar 2010
A lack of involvement in the development and implementation of tuberculosis (TB) policies by civil society organisations and communities affected by HIV and TB is resulting in an absence of government accountability for TB policies and quality services.
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24 Mar 2010
In a significant move announced today, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) is to provide £12 million to slash the number of TB deaths in poorer countries. Eight million will go to fund TB vaccine development.
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16 Mar 2010
Members of the European Parliament recently voted 536-80 in favour of a Robin Hood Tax, adopting a resolution on ‘financial transaction taxes and making them work.’
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09 Mar 2010
Passengers in the United States making travel reservations will now be able to give $2 to fight HIV, tuberculosis and malaria when they buy a plane ticket, reserve a hotel room or rent a car.
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01 Mar 2010
The Ecuadorian transgender women’s group Silueta X has broken new ground in enabling transgender men and women to change their name legally, from male to female and vice versa.
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01 Mar 2010
Delivering comprehensive home-based care programmes for HIV
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01 Mar 2010
This month we hear from Key Correspondent, Henry Neondo, on safer sex awareness events and free condom distribution in 34 cities around the world.
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26 Feb 2010
Rumah Cemara, Alliance linking organisation in Indonesia, has been continuing its groundbreaking work on HIV prevention and support in two prisons in West Java.
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26 Feb 2010
Alliance partners in India are to benefit from a new initiative, Innovation in India, launched by social enterprise Pepal, which will pair private-sector professionals with individual staff to work on new community projects.
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26 Feb 2010
A new book providing practical ideas for extended families and communities who are supporting children affected by HIV and AIDS in Africa was released this month.
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26 Feb 2010
In Antigua and Barbuda the Red Ribbon Coalition (RRC) has called on parliamentarians to take a lead in developing a National Strategic Plan for HIV. The Coalition welcomes its inclusion in the Ministry’s process of developing a national strategic plan in Antigua.
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26 Feb 2010
More donors than ever attended this year’s Alliance Donors meeting, taking the opportunity to reflect on the success and learning from the Alliance’s current three year strategy, IMPACT 2010, and to discuss the new strategy being developed for 2010 onwards.
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26 Feb 2010
HIV affects every area of life in Uganda but people have learned to live with it, often in interesting and enterprising ways.
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16 Feb 2010
Thousands have pledged their support for a tiny tax on bankers that could raise billions each year for global causes, including HIV and health.
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10 Feb 2010
A tiny tax on bankers that would make a big difference here and abroad
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01 Feb 2010
In the Old Customs Yard Prison in Juba, South Sudan, men crowd around second lieutenant Jenario Tombe Kuwjok, from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) HIV secretariat. He is giving HIV education and providing voluntary counselling and testing to military prisoners.
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01 Feb 2010
Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti on 12 January the Alliance is working with its partner POZ, donors and emergency response agencies to try to ensure people living with HIV can access basic services.
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01 Feb 2010
Last year we distributed 25,000 resources globally to support HIV and health programming in developing countries.
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29 Jan 2010
Training modules resulting from a workshop organised by Alliance India will be a key new tool in meeting the needs of men who have sex with men (MSM), and transgender and hijra communities across India.
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29 Jan 2010
Following an Alliance learning exchange between India and Ukraine at the end of last year, peer outreach will become a key component in Alliance programmes aiming to engage with hidden female drug users in Manipur.
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29 Jan 2010
This month we hear from Latin American Key Correspondents reporting from the Global Fund regional meeting in Paraguay.
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29 Jan 2010
Since summer 2009 the Alliance has been supporting Key Correspondents – an exciting network of citizen journalists – to share their experiences and speak their world.
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18 Jan 2010
The Alliance Technical Support Hubs were set up in 2008 with the aim of providing high-quality, locally sourced technical support to civil society organisations working with HIV or other related areas.
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18 Jan 2010
A number of support group members and POZ staff are very sadly presumed dead, trapped in the rubble of the Centre d'Espoir in Port-au-Prince.
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14 Jan 2010
In a Latin American first, lawmakers in Mexico City have taken the welcome step to legalise gay marriage and allow gay couples to adopt children. The decision taken in December, will take effect in March 2010.
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13 Jan 2010
Alliance statement following the earthquake in Haiti.
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06 Jan 2010
In 2009 the South Asia Hub conducted its most significant project yet. The 60 day research project focused on HIV infection among men who have sex with men, one of its key thematic areas of expertise.
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06 Jan 2010
Eight organisations from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have come together to form the new ‘Friends of the Global Fund LAC’.
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05 Jan 2010
Happy New Year from all of us at the Alliance!
There are plenty of challenges in 2010, but we look forward to facing them and working together to create new successes.
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23 Dec 2009
As Commonwealth Heads of State and Ministers gathered last month in Trinidad, civil society presented a range of pressing issues concerning the HIV and AIDS response in Commonwealth countries, including respecting the human rights of sexual minority groups, financing the HIV and AIDS response and supporting an HIV treatment patent pool to help reduce the costs of antiretroviral treatment.
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23 Dec 2009
A programme learning exchange between Alliance linking organisations in Nigeria and Kenya has demonstrated the strength of the Alliance’s global partnership in speeding up effective HIV responses by facilitating cross-country learning.
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21 Dec 2009
A satellite conference organised by the Alliance’s Latin American technical support hub highlights new access challenges to technical assistance.
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18 Dec 2009
A decision at the recent UNITAID board meeting (the international drug purchasing facility) to implement a patent pool for HIV drugs has been widely and warmly welcomed by Alliance members.
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08 Dec 2009
Are you part of a civil society organisation responding to HIV in a developing country?
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06 Dec 2009
Time is running out to meet the health MDGs.
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04 Dec 2009
Alliance-supported events in London, Brussels and Washington marked World AIDS Day and highlighted the ongoing need for action.
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03 Dec 2009
UK MPs published their report assessing the implementation of the UK government’s HIV/AIDS strategy this week.
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01 Dec 2009
Erika Paez-Manjarres reflects on the life of murdered colleague Wanda Fox – a transgender outreach worker at Alliance partner Fundacion Procrear in Colombia.
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01 Dec 2009
A new strategy in Colombia has been put into action by the Santamaría Fundación and Observatorio Ciudadano Trans to condemn the continuing occurrence of murders of transgender women.
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01 Dec 2009
The Alliance’s programme in Madagascar ended in October, passing on a well established and growing number of national networks working on HIV.
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01 Dec 2009
Positive Lives, a unique global photography project that supports those living with HIV and challenges the stigma and prejudices they face, has transferred to the Alliance.
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01 Dec 2009
The Alliance had a high profile at an expert meeting on HIV prevention among men who have sex with men, women who have sex with women and transgenders, held in Amsterdam on 5/6 November.
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01 Dec 2009
The Middle East and North Africa Harm Reduction Association (MENAHRA) organised the first regional conference on harm reduction in Beirut on 15–18 November. It showcased some of the remarkable progress seen in the region in recent years, featuring the work of several Alliance partners.
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01 Dec 2009
In South Sudan mother to child HIV transmission is the greatest source of HIV infection in children below 15. With no intervention 24-45% of babies born to HIV-infected mothers will acquire the virus.
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01 Dec 2009
This month we hear from a citizen journalist in Uganda, commenting on the anti-homosexuality bill which is being considered by the government.
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01 Dec 2009
Who would have thought that a country ranked 137 in the Human Development Index, with a weak health infrastructure would become one of the first countries to achieve Millennium Development Goal 6 to combat HIV?
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01 Dec 2009
One of the Alliance’s first linking organisations, HIV/AIDS and STD Alliance Bangladesh (HASAB), celebrated its fifteenth anniversary on 13 November. From a pioneering organisation in 1994, it has become a leader in the civil society HIV response in Bangladesh.
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01 Dec 2009
‘We have around 10-20 men who come in regularly for treatment. Many didn’t know they were HIV positive. So many of our community are dead now.’
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01 Dec 2009
Around 1.2 million children are orphaned because of AIDS in Uganda, and an estimated 130,000 are living with HIV.
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01 Dec 2009
The benefits of committed partnerships are clear to see this World AIDS Day, and Alliance Executive Director, Alvaro Bermejo, believes this should inspire stakeholders to recommit to fighting HIV.
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27 Nov 2009
The latest AIDS epidemic update was published this week by UNAIDS and while there is great progress in some areas, there are still huge challenges ahead.
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16 Nov 2009
The World Health Organisation (WHO) last week launched its new report on the health of women, confirming that HIV is the leading cause of death for women between 15-44 years old.
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10 Nov 2009
UK Prime Minster Gordon Brown made a surprise announcement this weekend at the G20 Finance Ministers meeting in support of a financial transaction tax that would raise funds for development.
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09 Nov 2009
Sixty per cent of the 40 million people worldwide living with HIV and AIDS reside in Commonwealth countries – along with many more millions directly affected.
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02 Nov 2009
An ambitious project is underway to improve civil society engagement in HIV/AIDS and TB responses in Africa, through ICT-based knowledge sharing and learning.
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02 Nov 2009
One of our key partners in the Latin America and Caribbean region, REDLACTRANS, has been awarded for its work to strengthen the rights of transgender people.
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02 Nov 2009
The Caribbean HIV/AIDS Alliance (CHAA) has expanded the activities of its programme promoting good sexual reproductive health and HIV prevention with Spanish-speaking sex workers, thanks to funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
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02 Nov 2009
A new report published by the Alliance describes how Alliance Uganda implemented the three-year USAID funded project, Expanding the Role of Networks of People Living with HIV in Uganda (the Networks Model project).
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02 Nov 2009
Each month The Loop is featuring highlights of citizen journalism from the Key Correspondent team.
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02 Nov 2009
The Alliance is to start working in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of the PATH team project to provide an integrated HIV/AIDS programme in the country. It is the first time the Alliance has worked in DRC on a long-term basis.
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02 Nov 2009
Forty-four Alliance participants gathered in Yamoussoukro in Cote d’Ivoire for Blue Sky Week (BSW) Africa 2009 (27-30 September).
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02 Nov 2009
Over twenty-five drug users from nine different countries met in Bangkok on 16th and 17th October 2009 to finalize the Asian Network of People who Use Drugs (ANPUD) Constitution and elect a Steering Committee for the first regional network of people who use drugs.
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02 Nov 2009
The Alliance participated in the 2009 US Conference on AIDS in San Francisco, California on 29-31 October. The conference, organised by the National Minority AIDS Council, was attended by over 3,000 professionals to build national support networks, exchange information and learn cutting- edge tools to address the challenges of HIV.
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02 Nov 2009
In the first week of September 2009 Alliance China hosted its 5th Annual Local Partners Meeting in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. This meeting is an opportunity for Alliance implementing partners across the country to get together and share experiences, and reinforce relationships between community groups and government partners.
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02 Nov 2009
Thanks to funding from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Colectivo Sol’s successful Vida Digna programme in Mexico will be adapted and implemented through the Asociacion Atlacatl Vivo Positivo (Atlacatl) in El Salvador.
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02 Nov 2009
Football plays a large part in the life of Rumah Cemara, an Indonesian NGO and partner of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
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05 Oct 2009
In Zambia many community based organisations (CBOs) depend to a large extent on subscription fees from members to survive. When working to support orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) this often results in discriminatory allocation of donor funds to support orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC).
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05 Oct 2009
The Alliance Regional Technical Support Hubs in India and Cambodia have successfully secured funding from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for a one year project aimed at reducing HIV and drug use through the provision of treatment, care and support to women who use drugs, and their families.
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05 Oct 2009
Indonesia has been hit by a series of earthquakes in the last month. Alliance Linking Organisation Rumah Cemara has been aiding victims of the earthquake that hit the island Java on 2 September.
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05 Oct 2009
In an article published in the Public Service Review this month, Dr Lee Abdelfadil and Dr Ade Fakoya of the Alliance herald the role of the community in delivering treatment.
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05 Oct 2009
On September 16 2009 the International HIV/AIDS Alliance co-sponsored a Policy Forum on HIV, Human Rights and Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) held on Capitol Hill.
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05 Oct 2009
Alliance linking organisation KHANA (Khmer HIV/AIDS NGO Alliance) in Cambodia has successfully secured $13.4m of funding from USAID for a community based HIV/AIDS prevention and care programme.
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05 Oct 2009
As Ministers gathered for the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh last month the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Stamp Out Poverty and a global coalition of over 120 development and humanitarian organisations continued to advocate for the introduction of a Currency Transaction Levy (CTL) to harness some of the vast wealth of the foreign exchange markets for health programmes in poor countries.
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05 Oct 2009
You are hungry, homeless and without family to help. You’re struggling to find work to earn the money to eat. What would you do?
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05 Oct 2009
On 15 September 2009 in Nairobi, KANCO (the Kenya AIDS NGO’s Consortium) launched their new strategic plan for 2010-2014. At the event, KANCO were also formally welcomed as a Linking Organisation of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance. This brings the total number of organisations within the global partnership (including the Secretariat) to 33.
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05 Oct 2009
Fabian Cataldo, Senior Research Officer, of the Alliance’s Best Practice Unit has won this year's New Writer's Prize awarded by Sociology of Health and Illness, a leading international journal. His winning article on accessing antiretroviral treatment in a Brazilian favela (shanty town), was published as a chapter of the peer-reviewed book Pharmaceuticals and Society.
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05 Oct 2009
Each month The Loop is featuring highlights of citizen journalism from the Key Correspondent team.
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05 Oct 2009
During August, Alliance linking organisations from Bolivia and Peru took part in an Alliance Horizontal Learning Exchange, a regular initiative which aims to facilitate knowledge sharing between Alliance partner organisations to support mutual learning, sharing and partnership.
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05 Oct 2009
Over 160 participants representing community organisations, as well as international institutions and government representatives, attended a conference in Kyiv on 22 September to mark the completion of a 5 year programme ‘Overcoming the HIV/AIDS Epidemics in Ukraine’ supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria programme.
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05 Oct 2009
Alliance Linking Organisations and partners from Asia and Eastern Europe gathered in Bangkok, Thailand on 7-11 September for their annual strategic planning workshop to discuss critical issues for the region’s response to HIV.
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01 Sep 2009
Key Correspondents attended and reported on the Community Forums that preceded ICAAP. Here we present extracts from three of their articles which were published in the official conference newspaper, The ICAAP Post.
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01 Sep 2009
Alliance Linking Organisations and partners from Latin America and the Caribbean gathered in Lima, Peru on 20-24 July for their annual strategic planning workshop and to discuss critical issues for the region’s response to HIV.
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01 Sep 2009
The Caribbean HIV/AIDS Alliance is supporting the introduction of rapid HIV testing at government facilities in Antigua, as part of its efforts to increase access to essential services in the Eastern Caribbean. The project is funded by USAID, with technical support from Intrahealth.
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01 Sep 2009
The Alliance has joined the Stop TB Partnership as an Organisational Partner.
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01 Sep 2009
In Haiti, widespread HIV-related stigma and discrimination is one of the main barriers to seeking health care.
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01 Sep 2009
Alliance members from across Asia joined thousands of delegates at the 9th ICAAP in Bali, Indonesia in early August.
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01 Sep 2009
Nine members of the Key Correspondents team attended the 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) in Bali, Indonesia. Here we present extracts from three of their articles which were published in the official conference newspaper, The ICAAP Post.
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01 Sep 2009
Rumah Cemara has been approved as a Linking Organisation of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
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01 Sep 2009
The International Health Partnership and related initiatives (IHP+), launched in September 2007, seeks to develop results-focused, country-led compacts that rally all development partners around one national health plan.
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01 Sep 2009
The Alliance’s recently-completed Networks Project in Uganda will have a lasting impact, reports Marnix van der Feltz, who is helping to document lessons learnt from the project.
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01 Sep 2009
CiSHAN, an Alliance Linking Organisation in Nigeria, has been playing a key role in advocating for a law to protect people living with or affected by HIV.
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01 Sep 2009
As the G20 finance ministers prepare to meet in London this Friday, pressure is mounting on them to introduce a Currency Transaction Levy (CTL) for health.
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17 Aug 2009
The World AIDS Campaign has announced the global theme of Universal Access and Human Rights for World AIDS Day 2009.
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27 Jul 2009
Representatives of the Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium (KANCO) travelled to Washington, D.C. to take part in the RESULTS/RESULTS Education Fund International Conference to End Poverty on 20-25 June.
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13 Jul 2009
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance was one of a few non-governmental organisations asked to give a statement at the ECOSOC High-level Segment in Geneva last week.
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01 Jul 2009
The Alliance Secretariat Policy Team took part in two recent meetings to help guide the United Nation’s response to AIDS.
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01 Jul 2009
The Alliance hosted a meeting of the CoATS group (Coordination of AIDS Technical Support – formerly the GIST) in Brighton on 18-19 June.
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01 Jul 2009
The Alliance Zambia gathered more than fifty stakeholders working with orphans and vulnerable children at a three-day workshop in the first week of June, as part of its Irish Aid-funded work to improve coordination of activities.
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01 Jul 2009
The Alliance has begun a new youth programme in Zambia and Swaziland with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), a new donor for the Alliance.
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01 Jul 2009
The Alliance Accreditation system, introduced one year ago, is helping to deliver quality HIV programmes supported by well-performing, sustainable and credible civil society organisations.
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01 Jul 2009
The Alliance presented findings from programmes and research at the 2009 HIVAIDS Implementers’ Meeting in Windhoek, Namibia on 10-14 June.
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01 Jul 2009
An online debate has highlighted a lack of civil society and community participation in the Latin American programmes of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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01 Jul 2009
The Alliance is constantly seeking new ways to deliver effective global responses to HIV and believes that the business sector has much to offer the global partnership.
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01 Jul 2009
Community-based journalists honed their skills for writing about TB and HIV at a workshop in Kampala, Uganda on 5-6 June.
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01 Jul 2009
Even in the most criminalised and stigmatised environments action can be taken to respond to the sexual health needs of men who have sex with men (MSM) and to address their vulnerability to HIV. This was one of the key messages that emerged from the recent Alliance Africa Regional Programme (ARP) workshop held in Pretoria, South Africa on 11-15 May.
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01 Jul 2009
On 19 May, Alliance linking organisation ANCS and the partnership Hope for African Children Initiative (HACI) held a ceremony in Dakar, Senegal for the handover of equipment to associations of people living with HIV.
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01 Jul 2009
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance is supporting communities to lessen the impact of HIV around the world, according to its latest Annual Review for 2008.
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01 Jul 2009
Alliance Uganda’s successful three-year programme to strengthen the role of networks of people living with HIV in order to increase access to healthcare services ends this month.
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01 Jul 2009
The Alliance Secretariat Policy Team attended the 24th meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) held in Geneva on 23 and 24 June, in the role of civil society observer.
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23 Jun 2009
Last week twenty families affected by HIV were evicted from their homes in Phnom Penh by the Cambodian authorities. The evictions came after several months of strong protests by both the families and the NGO community that had been supporting them.
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22 Jun 2009
Professor Alan Whiteside visited the Alliance Secretariat in Brighton on 17 June to speak and answer questions about one of the most important issues facing the international HIV community.
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02 Jun 2009
Last week the High Level Task Force on Innovative Financing announced their recommendations on a set of financing options to meet the estimated $28-37 billion funding gap needed to meet the health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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01 Jun 2009
Two of Africa’s most inspirational community leaders visited the Alliance secretariat on 24 April to exchange knowledge and explore opportunities for collaboration.
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01 Jun 2009
In the conservative city of San Luis Potosi, central Mexico, a pioneering community organisation is striving to change attitudes to one of society’s most stigmatised groups.
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01 Jun 2009
Following the sad news earlier this year that Health & Development Networks (HDN) had lost its core funding, the Alliance has continued to work with HDN colleagues to put a plan in place to transfer key programmes to a range of partners, including the Alliance.
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01 Jun 2009
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance – working in Ethiopia for the first time – will be a major sub-contractor to PATH in a five-year, $35 million programme funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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01 Jun 2009
As the Alliance and Health & Development Networks (HDN) continue to work together to transfer some of HDN’s key programmes to the Alliance, we report on the success of their work enhancing national level policy, advocacy and communication efforts through the National Partnership Platform (NPP) initiative. This article focuses on the NPP initiative in Vietnam.
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01 Jun 2009
The UK government is in the process of writing a new White Paper on Development. White Papers are issued by government to lay out policy or proposed action on a topic of current concern. So why isn’t there any focus in the White Paper on the need to invest in health as an important area of development?
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01 Jun 2009
All agencies integrating nutrition in their HIV/AIDS programmes for children in India should synergise and collaborate on related research and advocacy, was the consensus that emerged from an academic meeting on "understanding the effects of nutrition on HIV infected and affected children in CHAHA", which was organised by the India HIV/AIDS Alliance in New Delhi on 22 May.
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01 Jun 2009
The High Level Task Force on Innovative Financing for Health Systems is drawing to the end of its first phase. Recommendations will be made to the G8 on generating additional resources to meet the health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through innovative financing mechanisms.
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01 Jun 2009
Is treatment as prevention just a poorly conceived biomedical intervention for a problem as complex as HIV/AIDS? Or is it an attempt to grasp at a holy grail?
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01 Jun 2009
A workshop on Sex Work, HIV & Violence, held in India on 17-19 February brought together 24 people from 15 Alliance countries to explore strategies to address violence against sex workers at the national and global level.
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01 Jun 2009
Is treatment as prevention just a poorly conceived biomedical intervention for a problem as complex as HIV/AIDS? Or is it an attempt to grasp at a holy grail?
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15 May 2009
Surviving the earthquake a year on
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01 May 2009
Each month The Loop is featuring highlights of citizen journalism from the Key Correspondent team.
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01 May 2009
Ukraine’s largest non-governmental HIV programme dramatically improved access to treatment, prevention and care, officials announced at a press conference in Kyiv on 31 March.
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01 May 2009
An Alliance linking organisation has been awarded $14.33 million to continue its HIV prevention work with marginalised groups in India.
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01 May 2009
The Alliance will be showcasing work from communities on the frontline of the HIV/AIDS response at the forthcoming 36th Annual International Conference on Global Health in Washington DC, USA, on 26-30 May 2009.
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01 May 2009
The transgender women’s group Silueta X in Ecuador has broken new ground in enabling transgender men and women to change their name legally, from masculine to feminine and vice versa.
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01 May 2009
As part of its innovative Irish Aid-supported children’s programme, Alliance Zambia has built on its collaboration with the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services to improve the effectiveness of support for vulnerable children in two districts in the Copperbelt province.
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01 May 2009
Dr. Eric Goosby, a leader and innovator in the fight against AIDS, has been nominated by President Obama as US Global AIDS Coordinator.
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01 May 2009
Representatives of the Alliance will attend the official launch of Australia’s new international development strategy for HIV in Bangkok on Friday 1 May – a strategy that supports the development of an Alliance Regional Technical Support Hub in Cambodia.
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01 May 2009
As previously reported in The Loop, last year the International HIV/AIDS Alliance (the Alliance) and Health & Development Networks (HDN) had been in continued negotiations regarding a merger which aimed to pool the expertise of both organisations.
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01 May 2009
Vulnerable groups at the centre of the AIDS epidemic in Latin America and the Caribbean find it hard to access money from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria a new report commissioned by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance reveals.
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01 May 2009
According to the new report “Health in Crisis”, European governments are still failing to deliver on their aid promises but the current economic crisis means the imperative to do more to achieve the health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is even greater.
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01 May 2009
On 31 March, Alliance Uganda had the pleasure of hosting US Ambassador Steven A. Browning during a visit to Kisoro District in the west of Uganda, one of forty districts where the programme “Expanding the Role of Networks of People Living with HIV and AIDS in Uganda” (the Networks Project) is being implemented.
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01 May 2009
Organisations responding to AIDS in Colombia received expert guidance at a workshop hosted by LigaSida, an Alliance implementing organisation, on 27-28 February.
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23 Apr 2009
The Alliance has welcomed the decision by the Court of Appeal in Dakar, Senegal to overturn the conviction against 9 AIDS activists working on HIV prevention of “indecent acts against nature”.
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01 Apr 2009
As civil unrest spiralled out of control in the island nation of Madagascar, Alliance members have sent a short report on the impact of the crisis on their work.
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01 Apr 2009
Pavlo Skala, Policy and Advocacy Programme Manager for Alliance-Ukraine, spoke last month at the High Level Segment of the 52nd session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, as acting head of the Ukrainian delegation. Here we reproduce his speech arguing for policy change in controlling the supply of illegal drugs.
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01 Apr 2009
Inadequate drug policies are the main reason why HIV prevention programmes fail to reach most injecting drug users, writes Ishwarchandra Haobam .
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01 Apr 2009
Javier Hourcade Bellocq, the Alliance’s Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean, spoke at a side event of the 53rd session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York on 2 March.
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01 Apr 2009
This year's World TB Day (24 March) was marked by news of dramatic data released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) showing rates of TB-HIV co-infection are twice as high as originally estimated.
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01 Apr 2009
A series of photos:
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01 Apr 2009
KANCO (the Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium) was welcomed into the International HIV/AIDS Alliance as a linking organisation at the CO/LO Directors’ meeting in Montego Bay, Jamaica in March.
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01 Apr 2009
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance is pleased to announce the appointment of Steven Sinding (USA) as Chair of the Board of Trustees.
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01 Apr 2009
An innovative new programme launched last week, developed by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, is proving popular with large companies despite the recession.
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01 Apr 2009
The renewed Governing Board of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine (Alliance-Ukraine) met for the first time on 24 February.
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01 Apr 2009
In our fourth good practice update, Gill Gordon, senior advisor on SRHR in the Alliance secretariat's Best Practice team, describes what the International HIV/AIDS Alliance is doing in policy and programming around Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and HIV linkages, and how the different components can be linked.
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01 Apr 2009
Each month The Loop is featuring highlights of citizen journalism from the Key Correspondents programme.
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01 Apr 2009
Dr Nils Daulaire – until recently president and CEO of the Global Health Council – visited the Alliance secretariat in Brighton on 5 March.
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24 Mar 2009
TB infections have a disproportionate effect on the lives of people living with HIV. Tuberculosis is the most common opportunistic infection and cause of death.
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03 Mar 2009
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance as a member of the EU-wide Action for Global Health group hosted a one-day policy conference to explore how to maximise the decisions taken at the major international aid financing events in 2008 so that the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are achieved.
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03 Mar 2009
The Alliance was one of four civil society organisations participating in a high-level Ministerial Review on the progress of the International Health Partnership and Related Initiatives (IHP+), held in Geneva on 4-5 February.
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03 Mar 2009
As the technical management agent (TMA) for HIV and AIDS projects funded by Uganda’s Civil Society Fund, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance continues to ensure that civil society organizations are well supported in Uganda.
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03 Mar 2009
A new five-year project will help vulnerable South African children by supporting their caregivers.
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03 Mar 2009
An Alliance partner in Lebanon has won the prestigious Felipa de Souza Award for leadership in improving the human rights of sexual minorities.
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03 Mar 2009
CHAHA, one of the largest programmes helping children and families affected by HIV in India, is entering its second phase after a successful first eighteen months.
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03 Mar 2009
Each month The Loop is featuring highlights of citizen journalism from the Key Correspondents programme.
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03 Mar 2009
UNAIDS has published a new guidance tool to increase understanding and use of the community systems strengthening (CSS) funding priority of the Global Fund.
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03 Mar 2009
This is the cry of drug users working on HIV prevention in communities profoundly affected by HIV and AIDS around the world.
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02 Mar 2009
An Alliance toolkit is spurring the fight against HIV-related stigma in Kenya.
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02 Mar 2009
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance hosted its annual meeting for donors at the end of January 2009. Eighteen donor representatives attended the event, held over two days in Brighton, to exchange information and share their thinking on the challenges faced by communities responding to AIDS.
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02 Mar 2009
During its first six months of operation, PortalSIDA attracted nearly twenty thousand visitors who downloaded four thousand documents.
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02 Mar 2009
In our third good practice update, Gill Gordon, senior advisor on SRHR in the Alliance secretariat's Best Practice team, gives an introduction to SRHR-HIV linkages and integration. Based on international evidence and the Alliance's experience, she provides an overview of the importance of linking SRHR and HIV, and looks at what factors can promote or inhibit effective linkages.
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02 Mar 2009
Alliance Ukraine hosted two art exhibitions to raise awareness of HIV and human rights issues and to elicit support for children affected by HIV.
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02 Mar 2009
More than eighty people have received leadership training through an initiative of the Alliance Nationale Contre le Sida (ANCS), the Senegalese linking organisation of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
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02 Feb 2009
Alliance Myanmar gathered its partners for a forum in Yangon on 20-22 October. The meeting’s theme was promoting participation and accountability for sustaining community action on AIDS. All twenty-eight partners of Alliance Myanmar attended.
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02 Feb 2009
Representatives from organisations responding to AIDS in Asia learned how to record and share their experiences at a workshop held in Manila on 9-12 December.
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02 Feb 2009
This Chinese New Year, Alliance China is celebrating the launch of its new Chinese and English language website.
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02 Feb 2009
PortalSIDA, the Spanish language internet platform for AIDS knowledge sharing, plans to increase its number of registered organisations from 250 to 500 this year.
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02 Feb 2009
The New Year sees the International HIV/AIDS Alliance evolving in pursuit of its mission to support communities responding to AIDS. A process is underway to strengthen the Alliance as a partnership of strong national linking organisations working effectively together.
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02 Feb 2009
The Alliance continues to expand its geographical reach and the scale of its work. Here we look at two recent examples of progress.
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02 Feb 2009
Health & Development Networks (HDN) and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance signed a merger agreement in Chiang Mai, Thailand in December 2008. A full merger will be complete as soon as a new foundation is created in Thailand.
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02 Feb 2009
“The Global Fund is owned by the Alliance network as much as it is by the Zambian government, by the UK government and by other civil society organisations. It is owned by everyone who is truly involved in responding to the crises of the three diseases,” said Dr Michel Kazatchkine, Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria when he visited the Alliance in Brighton in January.
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02 Feb 2009
The International Task Team on HIV-related Travel Restrictions, established by UNAIDS in January 2008, has issued a report recommending the elimination of all HIV-specific restrictions on entry, stay and residence. Accompanying the report is a collection of personal narratives from some of those affected by such restrictions. Here the Alliance’s Shaun Mellors – a member of the Task Team – shares his own experiences of being an HIV positive visitor to the United States.
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02 Feb 2009
Each month The Loop is featuring highlights of citizen journalism from HDN’s Key Correspondents. This month Margret Masanga-John interviews a grandmother living with HIV in her native Zimbabwe, reflecting on the need for greater female empowerment.
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02 Feb 2009
Executive Director of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Alvaro Bermejo, addressed a hearing on HIV and human rights at the European Parliament on 11 December. He and other speakers called on the European Union (EU) to strengthen links between human rights and the international response to AIDS.
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31 Jan 2009
The findings of a new report have highlighted the positive impact that the Khmer HIV/AIDS NGO Alliance (KHANA) integrated food support and home based care programme is having on people with HIV and orphans and vulnerable children.
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19 Jan 2009
The Alliance congratulates Barak Obama on the occasion of his inauguration as 44th President of the United States and looks forward to working with his new administration to turn the tide in the global AIDS pandemic.
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18 Dec 2008
Alliance members won several awards at the 15th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA), held in Dakar, Senegal on 3-7 December.
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17 Dec 2008
As the global economic situation worsens there is a strong possibility that developed countries will fail to meet their commitment to providing 0.7% GDP in overseas aid and more developing countries will spiral into greater debt and poverty.