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Finance and funding
Japan’s 2012 contribution to the Global Fund is the highest it has ever made

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria today welcomed the payment by Japan of the second and final tranche of its total 2012 contribution of US$ 343 million, the highest annual amount that Japan has ever made in 10 years of vigorous support for the Global Fund.

Published
18 December 2012
From
Global Fund
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
PEPFAR Blueprint: Community update for MSM advocates

PEPFAR Blueprint: Creating an AIDS-free generation. What does it mean for MSM?

Published
17 December 2012
From
MSM Global Forum
Global health initiatives
Amb. Goosby to head new Global Health Diplomacy office, will continue to lead PEPFAR

The Global Health Diplomacy office was announced last July as the successor to President Obama’s Global Health Initiative. GHI, a response to neglected and preventable health threats in poor countries, was launched in 2009 and originally planned as a 6-year effort.

Published
17 December 2012
From
Science Speaks
Diagnosing children
Point-of-care (POC) diagnostics are essential to achieving an AIDS-free generation and improving outcomes in HIV-exposed children

This edition reviews recent evidence on point-of-care testing, on tests in development, and looks at experience of optimising performance of dried blood spot sampling.

Published
14 December 2012
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
HIV treatment in children
DNDi is awarded USD 17.3 million from UNITAID to spur development and delivery of child-adapted ARVs

The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative welcomes the announcement by UNITAID to grant up to USD 17.3 million to the organization for its pediatric HIV program.

Published
12 December 2012
From
Eurekalert Inf Dis
Malaria
RBM Partnership calls for US$2.4 billion to avert potential malaria resurgence in sub-Saharan Africa

The Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM) Board concluded its 23rd meeting in Senegal with an urgent call to governments of malaria endemic countries and development partners to secure the US$2.4 billion needed over the next two years to maintain high levels of coverage with life-saving malaria prevention and treatment interventions in eight African countries.

Published
11 December 2012
From
Roll Back Malaria Partneship
HIV treatment in children
UNITAID new grants total $120 million: Focus on childhood AIDS, TB and malaria

UNITAID has made new grants to allow hundreds of thousands of children in developing countries to access better and more affordable medicines for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis (TB).

Published
10 December 2012
From
UNITAID
TB diagnosis
United States government announces $11 million in additional support for rapid TB test in 14 countries

Countries receiving the rapid tests are: Côte d'Ivoire, DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Burma.

Published
06 December 2012
From
PEPFAR press release
Women
Happy World (Ignore Women and) AIDS Day!

Hats off to the spin doctors who managed to turn this year's World AIDS Day into a global celebration. A mere 34 million people are living with HIV! The end of AIDS is near! It's a triumph of exclamation points over data points. And the situation of women is glossed over entirely.

Published
06 December 2012
From
Huffington Post
Global health initiatives
Simon Bland: After a Year of Sweeping Reform, the Global Fund Is Ready for New Challenges

The Global Fund is now in robust health after enacting major changes in the way it does business. Simply put, 2011 was the year that the Fund came to realize it had to make serious changes and 2012 has been the year to make those changes.

Published
01 December 2012
From
Huffington Post
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