At a meeting of 42 self-help groups from across Myanmar at the end of March 2007, participants agreed on the need for a national network of people living with HIV and marked the first step towards making this a reality.
NGOs working on drug use and HIV prevention in Ukraine came together to organise a ‘Football against narcotics’ tournament to draw attention to growing injecting drug use and rising HIV infections.
Find out more about the work that SOLVIE in Burkina Faso has been doing to support people living with HIV to become more independent and provide for their families. Lisez cet article en français.
The Alliance’s linking organisation in Cambodia ran a two-day training course for journalists in July, to encourage the media to report more on HIV issues and reach those who most need HIV information.
Alliance events at ICAAP 2007 The Alliance is hosting a number of events at the 8th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP), taking place in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from 19-23 August 2007.
The Alliance and Action for Global Health are calling for the UK government to show leadership by ensuring that at least 15% of all aid to developing countries is allocated to providing better healthcare for all.
In response to criticism by the Alliance of Abbott Laboratories’ commercial sanctions in response to Thailand’s lawful issuing of a compulsory license for generic antiretrovirals, the Abbott Fund has decided that as of the end of 2007 it will exclude the Alliance’s International Secretariat from the funding it provides for the Alliance India programme.
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