Latest Alliance news

Read the latest Alliance news from around the world.

  • Injecting drug use, harm reduction and substitution treatment: a good practice update

    In our second HIV good practice update, Susie McLean, senior advisor on drug use and HIV in the Alliance secretariat’s HIV Best Practice team, explains substitution treatment for opiate dependency and examines some of the implementation and advocacy issues for organisations starting to work in the field of harm reduction.

    26 November 2008

  • Learning exchange leads to successful Myanmar funding bid

    Earlier this year, an Alliance secretariat-funded horizontal learning exchange enabled staff from Alliance Myanmar to visit successful children’s programmes set up by the Alliance in India. The knowledge and experience from the exchange has now led to a successful funding bid in Myanmar.

    26 November 2008

  • Marking World AIDS Day in the UK

    To mark this year’s World AIDS Day in the UK the Alliance is interested to know what you think. Jane Waterman, Director of External Relations at the Alliance in Brighton explains.

    26 November 2008

  • Alliance Caribbean becomes an independent linking organisation

    The International HIV/AIDS Alliance has demonstrated its ongoing commitment to create a global network of indigenous, independent, sustainable organisations with the successful evolution of the Caribbean country office into an independent national linking organisation.

    25 November 2008

  • Alliance highlights concerns about UK global AIDS strategy to International Development Select Committee

    Giving evidence to a parliamentary select committee hearing focused on the new UK government strategy on HIV and AIDS in developing countries gave the Alliance the opportunity to reflect on the strategy’s strengths and areas for concern.

    25 November 2008

  • Alliance Myanmar wins new funding to develop its work with children

    The Alliance in Myanmar has successfully secured a two and a half year grant from the European Union, which will allow it to develop the work of its ten community partners with orphans and vulnerable children.

    25 November 2008

  • Alliance to showcase African success stories at ICASA 2008

    The Alliance will showcase its work with communities all over Africa at the 15th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa, to be held from 3 - 7 December in Dakar, Senegal.

    25 November 2008

  • Alliance welcomes two new trustees and says a big thank-you to Jens Van Roey

    The Alliance welcomed two new trustees at its November 2008 board meeting. Kevin Ryan and Fatimata Sy both have extensive HIV experience and joined as Jens Van Roey stepped down after nine years of loyal service.

    25 November 2008

  • Citizen journalists speak their world

    The Loop will be featuring highlights of citizen journalism from HDN’s Key Correspondents team every month. This month Bobby Ramakant reports on activist demands in the run up to the 39th World Conference on Lung Health in Paris.

    25 November 2008

  • Have your say this World AIDS Day

    Every day 5,500 people around the world die from HIV-related illness. For World AIDS Day on 1 December the Alliance wants to know how you think we can achieve a world in which people do not die from HIV. We’d love to hear and share your views.

    25 November 2008

  • Joint activity planning moves ahead following Alliance/HDN merger

    Plans for joint programme activities, which maximise the benefits of the merger between the International HIV/AIDS (the Alliance) and Health & Development Networks (HDN), have been moving ahead rapidly following the approval of the merger.

    25 November 2008

  • UK secretariat becomes fourth accredited member of the Alliance

    The UK secretariat has become the fourth Alliance organisation to be successfully accredited following an extensive evaluation and review process.

    25 November 2008

  • Watchdog organisation launched to safeguard health services for marginalised groups in Bolivia

    The Observatory, a new watchdog organisation, has been launched in Bolivia as part of the Alliance’s Andes Advocacy project. The Observatory will monitor government policy, ensure the observance of existing legislation, and report on the delivery of health services to key population groups.

    25 November 2008

  • Article about Alliance work wins Guardian journalism competition

    The Guardian International Development Journalism competition has culminated in the announcement of Sylvia Rowley as the overall winner in the amateur journalist category, writing about the Alliance’s work in India.

    24 November 2008

  • Tackling HIV and tuberculosis

    Ezio Tavora dos Santos Filho, an international HIV and tuberculosis activist, asks why the global community isn’t doing more to tackle the problem of HIV and tuberculosis co-infection, which kills around half of all people living with HIV.

    30 October 2008

  • USA HIV/AIDS coordinator visits Alliance Ukraine and pledges continued support for scale-up of methadone-based treatment

    On 15 October, Ambassador Mark Dybul, United States Global HIV/AIDS Coordinator, visited the International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine and affirmed US support for the scale-up of methadone-based treatment programmes in the fight against HIV. He also emphasised the importance of partnership between government and civil society to strengthen the national HIV response in Ukraine.

    30 October 2008

  • Life skills education for orphans and vulnerable children in India

    Education in life skills has recently come to be regarded as a vital component in HIV programmes in India, particularly for young people. The complex range of issues associated with HIV that young people face such as dealing with vulnerabilities about their own or their parents status, peer pressure and stigmatisation, media exposure, and gender inequality, has led to increasing support over the last decade for the teaching of life skills.

    29 October 2008

  • Alliance technical support hubs encourage new horizontal cooperation

    In an example of south-south collaboration through the Alliance’s new technical support hubs, Alliance India has provided specialist monitoring and evaluation (M&E) support to the Khmer HIV/AIDS NGO Alliance (KHANA), the Alliance’s linking organisation in Cambodia.

    28 October 2008

  • Board approval confirms the merger of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and Health & Development Networks

    The merger between the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and Health & Development Networks has been approved by the board of directors of each organisation. The merger will lead to a new joint Alliance-HDN foundation that will be an arm of the Alliance Secretariat, providing specialised support to Alliance country offices and linking organisations, and to other nationally-based civil society organisations.

    28 October 2008

  • HIV, antiretroviral treatment, and HIV sexual transmission: what’s new?

    In the first of a series of HIV good practice updates Ade Fakoya, senior adviser on HIV and health services in the Alliance secretariat’s HIV Best Practice team, captures the latest thinking around the sexual transmission of HIV. In this article he summarises some of the key issues explored in the full technical update.

    28 October 2008

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