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Drug-resistant TB
World Health Organization and Global Fund cite tuberculosis threat

WHO and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria said today that strains of tuberculosis with resistance to multiple drugs could spread widely and highlight an annual need of at least US$ 1.6 billion in international funding for treatment and prevention of the disease.

Published
18 March 2013
From
World Health Organization
Drug-resistant TB
Global Drug Facility achieves price reduction for drug-resistant TB treatments

The Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility has reduced the price of several second-line drugs it supplies for the treatment of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) by up to 26% compared to 2011 prices, resulting in a decrease in the overall cost of treatment.

Published
18 March 2013
From
Stop TB Partnership
Access to medicines and treatment
Uganda government under pressure to boost ARV funding

The Ugandan government's draft 2013/2014 budget allocates US$38.5 million to enrol a further 100,000 people living with HIV on life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. But activists say the money, while welcome in a country still largely dependent on donor funds for its HIV programmes, is not sufficient to meet treatment needs.

Published
15 March 2013
From
IRIN Plus News
Injecting drug use
HIV high on the agenda at the fifty-sixth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs

At the fifty-sixth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, which is running from 11-15 March, drug use and HIV will be addressed through a number of channels, including a draft resolution calling for the intensification of efforts to reduce HIV to attain the targets of the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS.

Published
13 March 2013
From
UNAIDS
HIV prevention policy
Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin: Five myths about AIDS

1. The case of the Mississippi baby means we’re close to curing AIDS. 2. AIDS is the leading killer of babies worldwide. 3. Mothers with HIV should never breast-feed. 4. Drugs are the key to preventing HIV’s spread. 5. AIDS can’t be defeated.

Published
12 March 2013
From
Washington Post
Health services and systems
Has HIV funding revived lagging health systems?

The HIV/AIDS epidemic arrived in sub-Saharan Africa after decades of neglect had left healthcare systems dangerously weak, barely able to cope with the onslaught of patients. Then the money started pouring in. But the jury is still out on whether the large sums of AIDS funding have made healthcare systems more resilient.

Published
08 March 2013
From
IRIN
Global health initiatives
Global Fund announces first new grants under new model

After reviewing and reforming its grant process, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is back in business, announcing the first handful of countries slated to receive up to US$1.9 billion in available funding over the next two years.

Published
01 March 2013
From
IRIN Plus News
Finance and funding
Who Should Pay for Global Health, and How Much?

Mirroring global carbon permit markets to mitigate climate change, we propose a cap-and-trade system consisting of a global cost-effectiveness criterion and a disability-adjusted life year (DALY) global credit market.

Published
28 February 2013
From
PLoS Medicine
Finance and funding
US budget cuts could jeopardize development of life-saving tools against major killers

Across-the-board cuts to US R&D programs could have a devastating impact on efforts to develop new drugs for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, the world's first malaria vaccine, and other vital global health products in development, according to a new report from a coalition of nonprofit groups focused on advancing innovation to save lives.

Published
27 February 2013
From
Eurekalert Inf Dis
Access to medicines and treatment
UNITAID can address HCV/HIV co-infection

In the first days of March, the governing body of UNITAID, the organisation financed mainly through a levy on air tickets, will decide on a new 4-year strategy. We believe UNITAID's new strategy should also include tackling a prevalent and serious, but curable, HIV co-morbidity: hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection.

Published
23 February 2013
From
The Lancet
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