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The Loop News from the International HIV/AIDS Alliance: May 2007

Accreditation system

Alliance to introduce quality assurance system across programmes

An accreditation system is to be developed to guide the admission of new linking organisations to the Alliance, and to encourage continuous quality improvement across our programmes and organisations.

Around the world

Managing Global Fund grants - do's and don'ts

Senior grant managers from the Alliance’s three Global Fund civil society Principal Recipients have joined secretariat staff and Global Implementation Support Team (GIST) members in training to strengthen their capacity to implement Global Fund grants.

Vulnerable groups in Madagascar need specific and open services, says report
Alliance-led research in Madagascar has identified characteristics, attitudes and behaviours of vulnerable groups that impact on national HIV prevention priorities and should feed through into service design.

Moroccan sex workers take a participatory approach to identifying prevention needs

Sex workers say that they lack the skills to negotiate condom use with their clients, according to a participatory community assessment from the Association Amal pour la Femme et le Développement (AAFD), partners of the Alliance linking organisation AMSED.

Condoms are lucky in Cambodia!

Peer outreach worker Run Sakuon is calling for all Cambodian men who have sex with men to use condoms and take no chances with the HIV epidemic.

 

New online resource centre for India

Alliance India has set up a new online resource centre called SETU to boost sharing and learning among NGOs working on HIV and AIDS in the country.  

Policy and advocacy

'Patent pools' will increase access to essential medicines, says Stop AIDS Campaign
Stop AIDS Campaign is proposing the collective management of intellectual property rights through 'patent pools' as a way of overcoming patent barriers and increasing access to affordable generic medicines.

And finally...

The Alliance website will soon be an even more useful resource!

During May, new sites will launch in French, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian to help expand access to all the Alliance’s publications and resources. These sites will allow ordering and searching for Alliance publications in each language, as well as basic information about the Alliance and our programmes.

Visitors to the global site will also be able to review and rate publications – an addition we hope will be very valuable to other visitors. An improved homepage will also bring you easier access to new material across the Alliance site. More in next month’s issue of the Loop!

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