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

New support for children in India

New support for 64,000 children living with HIV in India

Alliance India’s CHANA project will be extending care and support services to at least 64,000 children living with and affected by HIV in India.

Around the world

Discrimination against drug users is fuelling the HIV epidemic in Cambodia

Without community consultation and education, the number of drug users and levels of HIV and sexually transmitted infection are set to increase in Cambodia.

Don't look down on drug users!
Sum Thy is appealing to his villagers to stop discriminating against drug users.

Community liaison workers in Senegal set ambitious targets for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Senegal strengthens capacity of community liaison workers to prevent mother-to-child transmission.

Ukraine asked to scale up harm reduction programmes for drug users

Government officials, academics and non-governmental organisations have called on Ukraine to scale up its harm reduction programmes for drug users.

Harm reduction programmes set up shop in Ukraine pharmacies

Alliance Ukraine and the Pharmacia network have been promoting a pilot harm reduction project in state-owned pharmacies.

Cross-border sex work likely to fuel HIV in China and Mongolia, says the National AIDS Foundation

Mongolian women working in the Chinese sex industry are highly vulnerable to HIV infection, and cross-border sex work is likely to fuel the epidemic as they return home, says the National AIDS Foundation (NAF), the Alliance’s linking organisation in Mongolia.

National meeting on HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health convergence: evidence for implementation

Alliance India has been sharing its key research findings and programmatic experience related to HIV and sexual and reproductive health integration.

Policy and advocacy

Partnering UNAIDS on universal access
The Alliance has been reviewing with UNAIDS how to strengthen our strategic partnership and work together towards achieving universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment by 2010.

HIV missing in new African, Caribbean and Pacific country strategy papers
Research carried out by Stop AIDS Alliance of 48 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries reveals that none of them have selected HIV as a key priority in their country strategy papers.

And finally...

Participating in the broader health agenda
The Alliance’s Executive Director, Alvaro Bermejo, has been newly elected to the Global Health Council’s Board of Directors.

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