International news
Mar 09, 2016With Increased Commitment, Europe Demonstrates Leadership in Global HealthThe Global Fund - "With today’s announcement that it is supporting the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria with a €470 million contribution for the next three years – an increase of 27 percent – the European Commission is strengthening a partnership that is saving millions of lives and transforming communities. |
Jan 08, 2016AHF Blasts Global Fund for Lowering Fundraising Targets to Combat EpidemicsBusiness Wire, Los Angeles - "AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) the World’s largest AIDS organization calls on Global Fund to intensify efforts to increase contributions from donors. AHF today denounced the $13 billion fundraising goal recently announced by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) for the Fifth Replenishment round spanning 2017-2019 as lacking in ambition and low in expectations. |
Mar 07, 2016UNAIDS & GHWA action plan for zero discrimination in health care settingsUNAIDS - “UNAIDS and the World Health Organization’s Global Health Workforce Alliance are initiating an agenda for action towards the elimination of discrimination in health-care settings. The agenda aims to create a world in which everyone, everywhere, enjoys health services without discrimination, and where the health workforce is empowered to provide discrimination-free health care. |
Feb 27, 2016Botswana close to reaching the 90-90-90 testing and treatment targetsaidsmap.com - "Botswana is already close to reaching the 90-90-90 target for testing, treatment and viral suppression, and is ahead of the United States and most European countries in its efforts to improve treatment coverage, Tendani Gaolathe of the Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership reported at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2016) in Boston on Wednesday. |
Mar 05, 2016Improving the care cascade in African countriesaidsmap.com - With advances in HIV testing, treatment and care, some countries are making great progress towards the UNAIDS 90-90-90 target. |
Feb 24, 20162016 High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDSUNAIDS - "Ending AIDS by 2030 is an integral part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were unanimously adopted by United Nations Member States in 2015. |
Jan 27, 2016Call to Action to Support Civil SocietyAIDS 2016 - "The fight against HIV began with individual citizens around the world standing together to demand action against the greatest public health threat of our time. This alliance of civil society sparked a revolution and more than three decades into the AIDS epidemic, it remains our greatest strength. (...) |
Jan 27, 2016Hope and ChangeAIDS 2016 - "Ugandan youth speak of change and hope at the AIDS 2016 Youth Dialogue event. AIDS is the primary killer of adolescents in Africa and the second cause of death in adolescents worldwide. This sobering fact is all the more reason why it is imperative for youth to be at the centre of the HIV response. |
Feb 25, 201620 billion condoms by 2020 - a new UNAIDS targetwww.avert.org - "Significant disparities in condom use between countries has led UNAIDS to establish a new global target to make 20 billion condoms available by 2020. |