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Linking learning and action: the importance of research
The Institute of Development Studies and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance have announced a new ongoing research partnership that will explore topics such as access to treatment care, health systems and effective influencing strategies. The collaboration is underpinned by the belief that there is a need to strengthen the links between evidence, and policy and practice.
23 July 2008
The Guardian International Development Journalism competition
Forty semi-finalists have now been chosen for the Guardian International Development Journalism, a project to find aspiring UK-based journalists who care about the developing world.
17 July 2008
Reassessing HIV Prevention
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance has published a response to the article, “Reassessing HIV Prevention” which appeared in Science magazine on May 14 2008.
30 June 2008
The Alliance calls for better access to HIV services for marginalised groups at UN high-level meeting.
Representatives from the International HIV/AIDS Alliance in the UK, India and Ukraine, along with Alliance members from Mexico and Brazil met to voice collective concern about poor access to HIV services for marginalised groups at the United Nations High Level meeting on HIV in New York (10-11 June 2008).
30 June 2008
Alliance welcomes appointment of Anand Grover as UN special rapporteur on health
The Alliance looks forward to supporting and working with Anand Grover, a renowned Indian lawyer with a long history of championing the rights of people living with HIV.
30 June 2008
New UK government strategy shows commitment but lacks HIV spending targets
This month saw the launch of the UK government’s long-awaited HIV strategy, Achieving Universal Access. The Alliance welcomed the government’s long-term commitment to HIV, but questioned the lack of HIV-specific spending targets.
30 June 2008
Europe told to spend more money on health and spend it better
A new report from Action for Global Health, a network of European NGOs, says that Europe needs to allocate more money for health and spend it better if it is to have a real impact on the health of people living in the developing world.
30 June 2008
Alliance launches next phase of African regional programming
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance is starting a new phase of its Africa Regional Programme following an agreement with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency to fund 75% of the programme.
30 June 2008
Overcoming obstacles to implementation: lessons from Uganda
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance presented evidence at the 2008 HIV/AIDS Implementers’ meeting in Kampala showing how people living with HIV in Uganda are working as Network Support Agents and increasing the use of HIV services in the country.
26 June 2008
Living library project challenges discrimination by opening up real life experiences to readers
Alliance Ukraine jointly organised an awareness-raising day with a difference on AIDS Memorial Day – a ‘living library’ project, where the ‘books’ were real people with stories of their own to share.
26 June 2008
Cambodia law threatens effectiveness of HIV prevention work with sex workers
Sex workers, entertainment workers and AIDS activists in Cambodia have expressed concern a new law introduced in February on human trafficking and sexual exploitation could drive sex workers underground and undermine HIV prevention efforts in the country.
26 June 2008
Five Alliance partners win UNAIDS 2008 Red Ribbon Awards
Close partners of Alliance linking organisations and country offices have been awarded the prestigious UNAIDS Red Ribbon in recognition of their outstanding community leadership and action on AIDS.
26 June 2008
Surviving the earthquake
On 12 May 2008, staff at the Alliance’s partner, Chengdu Gay Care Organisation in south-west China, were going about their daily routines when they were hit by the impact of the worst earthquake to strike China in ten years. Derek Liran kept a diary of events as they unfolded, and the organisation’s response to the disaster.
26 June 2008
Alliance to host discussion on marginalised communities prior to UN high-level meeting on HIV
The Alliance is holding a side event looking at the challenges and opportunities around meeting universal access targets for marginalised communities prior to a UN special meeting that will be reviewing progress on HIV.
04 June 2008
Competition for resources threatening health responses
According to the Alliance, competition for scarce resources between supporters of disease-specific funding and wider health-systems strengthening is threatening the solidarity and partnerships that were built at the last Japanese G8 summit eight years ago, and threatening the effectiveness of global health responses.
29 May 2008
SEMUS – turning lives around
Antoine Nanéma and Lisetta Ouédraogo Yako tell us about the impact that SEMUS – one of the Alliance’s partners in Burkina Faso – has had on their lives.
27 May 2008
Senegal meeting allows civil society organisations to share their experiences
Civil society organisations have contributed significantly to Senegal’s HIV response. This was the message from the executive secretary of Senegal’s national AIDS council at a two-day meeting organised by Alliance linking organisation ANCS in Senegal. The meeting allowed civil society organisations implementing the Global Fund programme in the country to share their experiences and learn from each other.
27 May 2008
Sharing knowledge and learning across the world
Alliance India and its partners have hosted two successful learning exchanges, with Alliance staff and partners from Myanmar, and from Ukraine and Zambia.
27 May 2008
Madagascar meeting prompts decision-makers to act against discrimination
A meeting organised by Alliance Madagascar, in which men who have sex with men spoke about the discrimination that they face, prompted key local decision makers, including journalists and local authority representatives, to take action.
27 May 2008
Kenya: adapting to a changing epidemic
Alliance implementing partner Women Fighting AIDS in Kenya is adapting its services in line with the country’s changing HIV response. As more people are able to access HIV treatment through the public health care system, WOFAK will focus on supporting more people to access and adhere to treatment.
27 May 2008
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Act now for health
Act now for health, a joint campaign by Action for Global Health, the Global Movement for Children, Oxfam International, Save the Children UK and WorldVision International, is calling for world governments to ensure that health is a priority in 2008.
2008 is the mid-way point to achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, and also marks the 30-year anniversary of the Declaration of Alma Ata – a declaration upholding the right to health and calling on the international community to make healthcare for all a reality by the year 2000.
Visit Act now for health to find out more and to support the call.
New short film outlines the Alliance's vision to 2010
A short film discussing the Alliance’s vision behind its new strategic framework to 2010 is now available. The film looks at the contribution that the Alliance plans to make to the HIV response.
Warning: fraudulent use of Alliance name
Innocent people are being targeted by fraudsters, posing as representatives or employees of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
