Latest Alliance news

Read the latest Alliance news from around the world.

  • Legal victory boosts HIV prevention efforts in India

    The Alliance has welcomed the historic judgment made in the Delhi High Court on Thursday to legalize gay sex between consenting adults.

    02 July 2009

  • Pepal branches out

    As of July 2009, Pepal, an innovative partnership with the private sector and academic institutions, will separate from the International HIV/AIDS Alliance to become an independent organisation.

    01 July 2009

  • Online debate about the Global Fund in Latin America

    An online debate hosted by PortalSIDA has highlighted a lack of civil society and community participation in the Latin American programmes of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

    01 July 2009

  • Civil society helping shape the UN's response to AIDS

    The Alliance Secretariat Policy Team took part in two recent meetings to help guide the United Nation’s response to AIDS.

    01 July 2009

  • Raising community voices on TB and HIV

    Community-based journalists honed their skills for writing about TB and HIV at a workshop in Kampala, Uganda on 5-6 June. More than fifteen members of the Key Correspondents network received training on HIV/TB integration and related issues, journalistic skills and use of HealthDev.net

    01 July 2009

  • Alliance attends UNAIDS PCB meeting

    The Alliance Policy Team attended the 24th meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) held in Geneva on 23 and 24 June, in the role of civil society observer.

    01 July 2009

  • Lessons shared at 2009 Implementers' Meeting

    The Alliance presented findings from programmes and research at the 2009 HIVAIDS Implementers’ Meeting in Windhoek, Namibia on 10-14 June.

    01 July 2009

  • Accreditation: strengthening the Alliance

    The Alliance Accreditation system, introduced one year ago, is helping to deliver quality HIV programmes supported by well-performing, sustainable and credible civil society organisations.

    01 July 2009

  • Responding to the needs of MSM

    Even in the most criminalised and stigmatised environments action can be taken to respond to the sexual health needs of men who have sex with men (MSM) and to address their vulnerability to HIV. This was one of the key messages that emerged from an Alliance Africa Regional Programme (ARP) workshop held in Pretoria, South Africa on 11-15 May.

    01 July 2009

  • Civil society's key role in high-level dialogue

    The Alliance hosted a meeting of the CoATS group (Coordination of AIDS Technical Support – formerly the GIST) in Brighton on 18-19 June. After the meeting, CoATS Chair Steve Kraus (Chief of HIV/AIDS Branch, UNFPA) spoke to The Loop about civil society’s role in the group’s work.

    01 July 2009

  • Strengthening associations of people living with HIV in Senegal

    On 19 May, Alliance linking organisation ANCS and Hope for African Children Initiative (HACI) held a ceremony in Dakar, Senegal for the handover of equipment to associations of people living with HIV.

    01 July 2009

  • Making an impact

    The Alliance is supporting communities to lessen the impact of HIV around the world, according to the latest Annual Review for 2008.

    01 July 2009

  • Increased access to healthcare services in Uganda

    Alliance Uganda’s successful three-year programme to strengthen the role of networks of people living with HIV in order to increase access to healthcare services ends this month.

    01 July 2009

  • Happy, healthy and safe

    The Alliance has begun a new youth programme in Zambia and Swaziland with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), a new donor for the Alliance.

    01 July 2009

  • Coordinating work with vulnerable children in Zambia

    The Alliance Zambia gathered more than fifty stakeholders working with orphans and vulnerable children at a three-day workshop in the first week of June, as part of its Irish Aid-funded work to improve coordination of activities.

    01 July 2009

  • HIV-affected families evicted in Cambodia

    Last week 20 families affected by HIV were evicted from their homes in Phnom Penh by the Cambodian authorities. The evictions came after several months of strong protests by both the families and the NGO community that had been supporting them.

    23 June 2009

  • Is AIDS still exceptional?

    Professor Alan Whiteside visited the Alliance Secretariat in Brighton on 17 June to speak and answer questions about one of the most important issues facing the international HIV community.

    22 June 2009

  • UNAIDS evaluates Alliance Ukraine's programme

    Alliance Ukraine’s HIV programme has undergone a rigorous assessment of its performance as part of a wider UNAIDS evaluation of Ukraine’s HIV national response. The results showed that it had exceeded the majority of its targets

    05 June 2009

  • News update on financing for health

    Last week the High Level Task Force on Innovative Financing announced their recommendations on a set of financing options to meet the estimated $28-37 billion funding gap needed to meet the health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Alliance was pleased to see they recommended that a Currency Transaction Levy (CTL) be explored.

    02 June 2009

  • Health financing hangs in the balance

    The Alliance is concerned that the mechanisms being considered by the High Level Task Force on Innovative Financing for Health Systems are far from innovative or new. We are working with partners to present new ideas for consideration.

    01 June 2009

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