Welcome to 'The loop'
'The loop' is the new monthly bulletin from the International HIV/AIDS Alliance which we hope will keep you up-to-date with the work and latest developments across the Alliance. We will also be highlighting new publications and resources that can share learning and help build more effective HIV/AIDS responses. Whether you are receiving support from the Alliance, an Alliance supporter yourself, or interested in experiences and lessons to inform your own work, we hope you enjoy this first issue. Please forward it to anyone you think may be interested, and invite them to sign up on line. Alvaro Bermejo
Executive Director, International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
Around the world
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ANCS, the Alliance's linking organisation in Senegal, celebrates its tenth birthday
ANCS has supported more than 1,000 non-governmental and community-based organisations in its time. |
New Alliance programme to work across national borders in sub-Saharan Africa
The Alliance is implementing a three-year (2005-2007) Africa Regional HIV/AIDS Programme in East, West and Southern Africa including countries where the Alliance does not yet have a presence. |
Broadening access to treatment in Ukraine
Nine further regions in Ukraine will now have access to anti-retroviral treatment as part of the Global Fund-supported programme being implemented by Alliance Ukraine. |
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The Alliance in Zambia makes the news with a memorable workshop on HIV/AIDS stigma
Zambia’s Sunday Post newspaper recently reported on a workshop facilitated by Alliance Zambia which provided anti-stigma training to trainers. |
New Global Fund role for Alliance in Madagascar
International non-governmental organisations working in Madagascar have selected Alliance Madagascar to be one of their representatives on the Global Fund's Country Coordinating Mechanism. |
Peace brings new challenges in Sudan
Following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between North and South Sudan, the Alliance carried out a mission to South Sudan to assess the capacity of civil society to respond to HIV/AIDS. |
Alliance looks to new phase of work in Ukraine
The Alliance has been invited to submit a request for continued funding beyond September 2005 as principal recipient of the Global Fund-supported programme “Overcoming HIV/AIDS epidemics in Ukraine”. |
Policy and advocacy update
Civil society contributes to European Commission development policy
Brussels non-governmental organisations have issued a joint statement to feed into the new European Commission development policy. |
Mobilising MEPs to act on the issue of children and HIV
The Alliance participated in a European Parliament meeting on 1 March 2005 on ‘Orphans and Vulnerable Children Living in a World with HIV/AIDS’, the aim of which was to mobilise MEPs to act on the issue of children and HIV. |
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