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  South African AIDS Conference: Special Issue

  The 5th South African AIDS Conference, held from 7-10 June, 2011 in Durban, showcased the recent remarkable achievements of the country’s HIV/AIDS response. Consequently, the conference was...

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  The whether forecast: HIV services in the cutback era

  Some HIV experts are wondering not what our services will look like in the future but in some areas, whether there will be any HIV-specific services at all....

  From:HIV treatment update

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  Whoever you vote for, the government gets in

  Lisa Power of the Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) looks at what voting for the three main political parties in the UK might bring for people with HIV and...

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  Making the money work harder: the new reality of HIV scale-up

  Doing more with less....

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  Will the money drain out of AIDS?

  Earlier this year, on 25 February, the government of Botswana announced that if the global recession continued, it would have to freeze the provision of treatment for its...

  From:HIV treatment update

Finance and funding news from aidsmap

• No more single-theme conferences: global HIV prevention conference planned

  The International Microbicides Conference held in Sydney this week will be the last of its kind, delegates were told in a closing plenary today. From 2014 onwards, it is planned, a single biennial conference on all aspects of HIV ...

  18 April 2012 | Gus Cairns

• How is HIV prevention policy made in Tanzania and why do structural interventions lose out?

  Far from being primarily driven by scientific evidence, decisions about spending priorities for HIV prevention programmes emerge from an imperfect, politicised process, Moritz Hunsmann argues in an article published online ahead of print in Social Science and Medicine. Drawing on ...

  28 March 2012 | Roger Pebody

• PEPFAR funding linked to lower death rate from all causes in Africa

  PEPFAR funding for HIV programmes lowered the risk of death in countries receiving funds by around 16% between 2004-2008, without any clear indication that funding for HIV was having a negative effect on the ability to fight other diseases, ...

  08 March 2012 | Keith Alcorn

• Upsurge in HIV diagnoses among IDUs in Greece and Romania - are reduced prevention services the cause?

  New diagnosis and prevalence of HIV increased sharply among injecting drug users in Greece and Romania in 2011, European investigators report. Several other countries in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) also reported slight increases in diagnoses or ...

  16 January 2012 | Michael Carter

• Obama: US aims to provide HIV drugs for extra 2 million by end of 2013

  The United States will aim to provide antiretroviral treatment for 6 million people around the world by 2013, President Barack Obama announced today, increasing the original US target by 2 million. The United States will also aim to provide antiretroviral ...

  01 December 2011 | Keith Alcorn

• US embraces treatment as prevention policy to achieve global 'AIDS-free generation'

  The United States is now committed to a policy of creating the first AIDS-free generation by using antiretroviral treatment as the central tool in a strategy to radically reduce new infections, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today. “HIV ...

  08 November 2011 | Keith Alcorn

• Funding for TB research and development declining

  Funding levels for tuberculosis (TB) research and development (R &D) fell by 0.3% in 2010 compared to 2009, according to new data released by the Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the Stop TB Partnership in the annual Report on ...

  07 November 2011 | Lesley Odendal

• Expert panel picks 'best buys' for HIV prevention

  If $10 billion of new money can be spent on HIV prevention over the next five years, the priorities should be more investment in vaccine research, mass infant circumcision, preventing mother to child transmission, safer blood supplies and a ...

  29 September 2011 | Keith Alcorn

• Haiti: Early HIV treatment cost-effective in one of the world's poorest countries

  Starting HIV treatment early, when CD4 cell counts fell below 350 cells/mm3 in accordance with current World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations, was cost-effective compared to starting at 200 cells/mm3 (standard ART) over a three-year period in Haiti, American and ...

  28 September 2011 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• House of Lords says UK needs new national HIV prevention campaign, bigger push for testing

  The United Kingdom government must give much greater priority to HIV prevention, and consider a new national campaign to inform the general public of the risks of HIV infection, according to a report issued today by the House of ...

  01 September 2011 | Keith Alcorn

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• What We Know about Making the Case to the Public for Global Health

  Today we released our latest national survey on attitudes towards global health, which uncovered important nuances about the argument for foreign aid and global health.

  2 hours ago | Kaiser Family Foundation

• Malaysia: Battling disease and stigma

  What sets HIV/AIDS apart from other diseases is the glaring fact that there are pockets of people who cannot look past what causes it to be transmitted.

  20 May 2012 | AsiaOne

• Ugandan AIDS Activists Concerned Over Proposed Cuts In Nation's Health Budget

  AIDS activists in Uganda are worried about a proposed reduction in the country's health budget, as Parliament begins "a months-long budgeting process for the ... next fiscal year," VOA News reports.

  18 May 2012 | Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report

• SF to replace lost federal AIDS/HIV funds

  Mayor Ed Lee announced Thursday morning that he will use city money to backfill $6.6 million in federal cuts to AIDS and HIV care in the city for the new fiscal year that starts July 1.

  18 May 2012 | San Francisco Chronicle

• PEPFAR Is Worth It: Ezekiel Emanuel Is Wrong on AIDS Funding

  The global economic recession and the de-emphasizing of HIV/AIDS in favor of other global health initiatives threatens to undermine the impressive results achieved thus far in treating HIV in the resource-limited settings.

  18 May 2012 | Huffington Post (blog)

• Zimbabwe may ask some HIV patients to begin paying for treatment amid funding gaps

  The National Aids Council is worried about the growing gap in funding anti-retroviral drugs for people living with HIV.

  17 May 2012 | Manual Items

• Breaking News: House committee approves 2013 funding for PEPFAR, Global Fund, global TB

  The House Appropriations Committee voted on its fiscal year (FY) 2013 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations bill Wednesday and released a report that clarifies its funding intentions for key global health programs. The bill includes $5.542 billion for global AIDS funding through the State Department, and the report specifies $4.243 billion to support the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program and $1.3 billion for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

  17 May 2012 | Science Speaks

• Nigeria: 252,000 Persons to Get HIV Treatment for Five Years

  A new project run by FHI 360 is to help provide antiretroviral therapy for 252,000 people living with HIV/AIDS over the next five years, including completing ARV treatment for an estimated 41,220 pregnant women across Nigeria.

  16 May 2012 | AllAfrica

• Will Europe Meet its 2015 Aid Development Goals?

  Decades ago, 15 of Europe's wealthiest nations made a promise to allocate .7 percent of their respective gross national products (GNP) to official development assistance. Yet despite a commitment that comprises such a small fraction of a nation's wealth, only a handful of countries are on track to reach this goal by the 2015 deadline.

  16 May 2012 | Inter Press Service

• Bernie Sanders floats plan to make HIV drugs less costly

  Why do American patients pay tens of thousands of dollars each year for HIV drugs that cost just hundreds in Africa? Drugmakers wave their patent rights in developing countries as part of the President's Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief.

  15 May 2012 | Politico

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