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  How can we afford to treat HIV?

  One of the dominant themes at the recent International AIDS Conference in Vienna was how to maintain the momentum towards universal HIV treatment access in the context...

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

  Doing more with less....

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  Experts at 2009 HIV Implementers' meeting worry about sustainability of HIV programmes

  New economic climate and HIV programmes....

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Global health initiatives 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

• Limited provision of TB services in prison in countries receiving Global Fund grants

  Only 50% of countries in receipt of grants from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria provide tuberculosis (TB) services in prisons, according to research published in a special supplement of the Journal of Infectious Diseases. The study ...

  30 March 2012 | Michael Carter

• 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

• Early infant diagnosis for HIV: is it taking place early enough?

  Current early infant diagnosis (EID) protocols may need to be revised in the light of current WHO guidelines on the prevention and treatment of HIV-infection in low-resourced settings, according to Dr. Gayle Sherman of Wits University, South Africa, and ...

  13 March 2012 | Theo Smart

• 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

• World Health Organization issues new policy to step up TB/HIV efforts

  Around 910,000 lives were saved between 2005 and 2010 as a result of closer working relationships between HIV and TB programmes, according to estimates released today by the World Health Organization. However, further progress is still needed: around 40% ...

  02 March 2012 | Keith Alcorn

• 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

• 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

• UNAIDS: Treat 15 million by 2015

  Global funding for AIDS needs to increase by one-third in the short term and by 20% in the longer term in order to achieve a radical reduction in new infections within a  decade, according to projections issued on June ...

  06 June 2011 | Keith Alcorn

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Global health initiatives news selected from other sources

• 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.

  3 hours ago | Kaiser Family Foundation

• MPs call on UK to set example by increasing Global Fund contribution

  International development committee concerned by delay in delivering funds to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria

  7 hours ago | The Guardian

• 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)

• Estimated 740,000 Deaths In Africa Averted Between 2004-2008 In Association With PEPFAR, Study Shows

  "The lives of more than 740,000 people in nine African countries were saved between 2004 and 2008 by the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief [PEPFAR]," according to a study conducted by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on Wednesday.

  17 May 2012 | Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report

• 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

• UNITAID seeks innovative HIV, TB and malaria proposals

  UNITAID is inviting letters of intent (LOI), or short conceptual presentations of a proposed project, on the topic of improving access to key preventive, diagnostic and treatment commodities for HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria through market-based approaches.  UNITAID works to negotiate low pricing for diagnostics and medication for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in developing countries.

  16 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

• Study Looking At Impact Of HIV Funding On Rwanda's Health System Has 'Serious Limitations'

  The jury is still out on whether HIV/AIDS funding has displaced or improved efforts on other disease control priorities.

  14 May 2012 | Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report

• Africa: Global Fund Forecasts U.S.$1.6 Billion in 'Additional Funding' for New Grants

  The Global Fund says that it expects that $1.6 billion "in additional funding" will be available to invest in new grants for the period 2012-2014. This figure includes up to $616 million for the Transitional Funding Mechanism.

  11 May 2012 | AllAfrica

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