Latest Alliance news
Read the latest Alliance news from around the world.
Health & Development Networks and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance announce merger talks
Formal merger negotiations have been announced between Health & Development Networks (HDN) and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance. The merger will create a new joint organisation with a global mandate, which will be part of the Alliance family.
05 August 2008
Living 2008
The Positive Leadership Summit, Living 2008, takes place on 31 July and 1 August bringing together leaders from around the world living with HIV.
31 July 2008
Results of the Alliance's electronic communications survey
Nearly 600 people responded to the survey about the Alliance’s website, online publications and The Loop. The survey results were broadly positive and gave the Alliance valuable feedback about what we could be doing to make our communications more effective.
29 July 2008
Alliance India takes its policy messages to UN high-level meeting
At the UN high-level meeting on AIDS in New York in June 2008, Alliance India’s Sonal Mehta urged leaders to be bold and not discriminate between “deserving” and “undeserving” people living with HIV. Speaking as a civil society representative in one of the panel discussions, Sonal explained how key populations living with HIV faced stigma on three levels and appealed to leaders to support their human rights to health.
29 July 2008
Alliance India partners receive specialist child counselling training
Partners in Alliance India’s Chaha project have been improving their child counselling skills with specialist training. Participants found out more about innovative approaches for counselling children, such as using arts and crafts, and will be putting their new skills into practice in their day-to-day work.
29 July 2008
International HIV/AIDS Alliance collaborates with Zambian government to support children
The Alliance is working with Zambia’s Department of Social Welfare to strengthen community support for orphaned and vulnerable children. In the past, civil society, the private sector and government have often acted in isolation, leading to a less effective response for children.
29 July 2008
Sharing the reality of drug use in Ukraine
Pavel Kutsev of the Drop-in Centre, a harm-reduction organisation working with drug users in Kiev, Ukraine, will soon be sharing the reality of his day-to day work with a wider audience thanks to social media tools. Pavel is going to be using blog posts, photos, podcasts and online videos to highlight the reality of drug use in Ukraine and its impact on public health. Here he tells us more about the work that the Drop-in Centre does.
29 July 2008
Good results for Alliance organisations in Global Fund Round 8 – so far!
Eleven Alliance organisations have been named as principal and sub-recipients in country proposals for the latest funding round from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Although the final proposals are currently being reviewed and yet to be approved, the estimated funding of around US$250 million over five years will have a significant impact on the Alliance’s contribution to the HIV response.
29 July 2008
Journalism competition shows HIV still high on the public agenda
An overwhelming response to the Guardian International Development Journalism Competition from amateur and professional journalists has shown that HIV is still high on the public agenda.
29 July 2008
Linking learning and action: the importance of research
The Institute of Development Studies and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance have announced a new ongoing research partnership that will explore topics such as access to treatment care, health systems and effective influencing strategies. The collaboration is underpinned by the belief that there is a need to strengthen the links between evidence, and policy and practice.
23 July 2008
The Guardian International Development Journalism competition
Forty semi-finalists have now been chosen for the Guardian International Development Journalism, a project to find aspiring UK-based journalists who care about the developing world.
17 July 2008
Reassessing HIV Prevention
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance has published a response to the article, “Reassessing HIV Prevention” which appeared in Science magazine on May 14 2008.
30 June 2008
The Alliance calls for better access to HIV services for marginalised groups at UN high-level meeting.
Representatives from the International HIV/AIDS Alliance in the UK, India and Ukraine, along with Alliance members from Mexico and Brazil met to voice collective concern about poor access to HIV services for marginalised groups at the United Nations High Level meeting on HIV in New York (10-11 June 2008).
30 June 2008
Alliance welcomes appointment of Anand Grover as UN special rapporteur on health
The Alliance looks forward to supporting and working with Anand Grover, a renowned Indian lawyer with a long history of championing the rights of people living with HIV.
30 June 2008
New UK government strategy shows commitment but lacks HIV spending targets
This month saw the launch of the UK government’s long-awaited HIV strategy, Achieving Universal Access. The Alliance welcomed the government’s long-term commitment to HIV, but questioned the lack of HIV-specific spending targets.
30 June 2008
Europe told to spend more money on health and spend it better
A new report from Action for Global Health, a network of European NGOs, says that Europe needs to allocate more money for health and spend it better if it is to have a real impact on the health of people living in the developing world.
30 June 2008
Alliance launches next phase of African regional programming
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance is starting a new phase of its Africa Regional Programme following an agreement with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency to fund 75% of the programme.
30 June 2008
Overcoming obstacles to implementation: lessons from Uganda
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance presented evidence at the 2008 HIV/AIDS Implementers’ meeting in Kampala showing how people living with HIV in Uganda are working as Network Support Agents and increasing the use of HIV services in the country.
26 June 2008
Living library project challenges discrimination by opening up real life experiences to readers
Alliance Ukraine jointly organised an awareness-raising day with a difference on AIDS Memorial Day – a ‘living library’ project, where the ‘books’ were real people with stories of their own to share.
26 June 2008
Cambodia law threatens effectiveness of HIV prevention work with sex workers
Sex workers, entertainment workers and AIDS activists in Cambodia have expressed concern a new law introduced in February on human trafficking and sexual exploitation could drive sex workers underground and undermine HIV prevention efforts in the country.
26 June 2008
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Act now for health
Act now for health, a joint campaign by Action for Global Health, the Global Movement for Children, Oxfam International, Save the Children UK and WorldVision International, is calling for world governments to ensure that health is a priority in 2008.
2008 is the mid-way point to achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, and also marks the 30-year anniversary of the Declaration of Alma Ata – a declaration upholding the right to health and calling on the international community to make healthcare for all a reality by the year 2000.
Visit Act now for health to find out more and to support the call.
New short film outlines the Alliance's vision to 2010
A short film discussing the Alliance’s vision behind its new strategic framework to 2010 is now available. The film looks at the contribution that the Alliance plans to make to the HIV response.
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