World Policy
World Policy 10/12/2011
UNAIDS calls for greater leadership in addressing human rights violations in the AIDS response
Respect for human rights is a non-negotiable requirement for the AIDS response.
World Policy 09/12/2011
High-Level Taskforce to tackle gender inequality
A new High-Level Taskforce on Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV for Eastern and Southern Africa was launched at the 16th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA).
World Policy 07/12/2011
Financial crisis hits developing world disease research
Wealthy nations pull back on funding for research on neglected maladies.
World Policy 07/12/2011
ICASA 2011: Stephen Lewis warns ‘reckless’ donors: how dare you decide whether Africans live or die?
Stephen Lewis, the Co-Director of AIDS-Free World, has called on global civil society to “stand up to the reckless nation-states who dare to decide whether Africans will live or die”.
World Policy 07/12/2011
Taxes could fill AIDS funding crunch: U.N.
The fight against AIDS risks being set back years by a global financial crisis, the head of the United Nations campaign against the disease warned.
World Policy 07/12/2011
Vietnam should shut compulsory rehab centers for drug users, sex workers, U.N. expert says
Detention and forced treatment violate the right to health of drug users and sex workers and perpetuate stigmatization and discrimination of those groups in the society.
World Policy 07/12/2011
Obama administration to promote and protect LGBT rights through foreign aid, diplomacy
The Obama administration will intensify efforts to fight discrimination against lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people as a major element of its foreign policy.
World Policy 06/12/2011
Society for AIDS in Africa unveils its new strategic plan for 2011- 2015
The Society for AIDS in Africa presented its strategy, together with the long-term vision of an African continent free of HIV, TB and Malaria.
World Policy 06/12/2011
Further details on Global Fund's tough new policies for grant renewals
The Global Fund has introduced significant changes to the policies and procedures for grant renewals. The main impetus for these changes is the need to find savings to help fund future renewals, unsigned Round 10 grants and the new Transitional Funding Mechanism.
World Policy 06/12/2011
Global Fund: More information on new mechanism to provide funding for essential services when current grants expire
The Global Fund has established a Transitional Funding Mechanism to cover the costs of "essential prevention, treatment and/or care" services in countries whose grants will expire and that were counting on Round 11 (which has now been cancelled). What constitutes "essential" services has not yet been defined.
World Policy 06/12/2011
Global Fund decision not to provide new funding opportunity until 2014 spurs Call to Action
Organisations and individuals are being urged to sign a Call for Action demanding that the Global Fund and its Board mobilise $2 billion from donors by July 2012 to create a new funding opportunity in 2012.
World Policy 06/12/2011
Ethiopia launches national plan to prevent new HIV infections among children
“With this plan, we are stepping up our efforts to reach many more millions of mothers and babies with PMTCT services in the next four years to ensure an HIV-free generation in our nation.”
World Policy 06/12/2011
Middle East and North Africa records the highest number of HIV infections ever in the region in 2010 but recent progress is promising
A report on the HIV epidemic in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) shows that while the overall HIV prevalence in the region is still low, the rise in new infections since 2001 has put the MENA region among the top two regions in the world with the fastest growing HIV epidemic.
World Policy 06/12/2011
ICASA 2011 to focus on ownership, commitment and support to the AIDS response in Africa
The XVI International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA 2011) opened on Sunday 4 December in Addis Ababa.
World Policy 03/12/2011
On World AIDS Day, WFP highlights importance of nutrition for people living with HIV
The World Food Programme (WFP) marks World AIDS Day by emphasizing the importance of providing food and nutrition support to people living with HIV and their families.
World Policy 03/12/2011
Online tool against criminalization of HIV launched
The Criminalise Hate and Not HIV campaign has been launched by the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).
World Policy 03/12/2011
Funding cuts and political will stand in the way of science potentially overcoming HIV/AIDS says President of the International AIDS Society
Africa’s largest conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections to open in Addis Ababa Sunday, December 4.
World Policy 03/12/2011
UNAIDS congratulates United States’ leadership to end AIDS
UNAIDS congratulates President Barack Obama on his bold commitment to provide AIDS treatment to 6 million people by 2013 and reach 1.5 million pregnant women living with HIV to protect their children from becoming infected with HIV.
World Policy 03/12/2011
UNAIDS applauds China’s decision to fill its HIV resource gap
China calls for shared responsibility in achieving zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination, zero AIDS-related deaths.
World Policy 03/12/2011
UNAIDS survey finds growing concern in countries over potential funding roll back by Global Fund
The survey looks at the impact of this decision on countries’ ability to scale up access to HIV and tuberculosis programmes.
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