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Read the latest Alliance news from around the world.
Alliance at the XVII International AIDS Conference, Mexico City
Read about some of the Alliance’s activities at the AIDS 2008 conference in Mexico city, where the Alliance hosted and participated in a wide range of events.
28 August 2008
Linking anti-stigma training to national policy work
A training workshop on stigma jointly organised by Alliance Côte d'Ivoire and its AIDS ministry saw the formation of a core team to develop anti-stigma tools for the country and a commitment to integrate anti-stigma activities into the ministry's action-plan. The Alliance's regional stigma training team (based in Alliance Zambia and part of the Alliance's Africa Regional Programme) facilitated the training.
26 August 2008
Partying safely in Antigua
At this year’s Antigua carnival, the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Alliance reached more than one fifth of the island’s population with its Think Safe, Act Smart! campaign. From 25 July to 3 August 2008, a carnival bus took the campaign’s messages to the streets and partygoers were provided with pouches of HIV information that doubled up as useful bags for holding keys, money and condoms.
22 August 2008
Red Ribbon Award recognises FID's innovative work to reduce stigma and discrimination towards transgenders
Fortaleciendo la Diversidad (FID), a community-based organisation of transgenders from San Luis Potosí, Mexico, has been specially recognised in the 2008 Red Ribbon Awards for their efforts to take action on HIV. FID was selected as the winner of the promoting human rights category for their outstanding contribution to defending the human rights of transgenders in Mexico.
21 August 2008
Alliance electronic publications in popular demand
The first half of 2008 saw an exceptional demand for Alliance publications, with nearly 350,000 publications downloaded from the Alliance’s website from January–June 2008. However, feedback shows that electronic resources are still difficult to access in some settings, and the Alliance is looking at what it can do to address this.
20 August 2008
Giving a voice to sex workers in Madagascar
In Madagascar, sex workers are among those most vulnerable to HIV and sexually transmitted infections. Yet they have some of the poorest access to prevention and treatment services. A new leaflet available in English and French highlights some of the issues that sex workers in Madagascar face and outlines the work that FIMIZORE, a network of sex workers organisations, is doing to address them.
20 August 2008
Alliance shortlisted for Charity of the Year award
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance has been shortlisted in the Charity of the Year category of the 2008 Charity Times Awards.
19 August 2008
Ceremony marks official opening of Alliance South Sudan office
The Alliance’s South Sudan office is now officially open. At the opening ceremony, the Alliance’s implementing partners in South Sudan talked about the progress they have made with the support of the Alliance, and called for the Alliance to continue its support to local organisations to deliver services to communities.
19 August 2008
Health & Development Networks and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance announce merger talks
Formal merger negotiations have been announced between Health & Development Networks (HDN) and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance. The merger will create a new joint organisation with a global mandate, which will be part of the Alliance family.
05 August 2008
Living 2008
The Positive Leadership Summit, Living 2008, takes place on 31 July and 1 August bringing together leaders from around the world living with HIV.
31 July 2008
Results of the Alliance's electronic communications survey
Nearly 600 people responded to the survey about the Alliance’s website, online publications and The Loop. The survey results were broadly positive and gave the Alliance valuable feedback about what we could be doing to make our communications more effective.
29 July 2008
Alliance India takes its policy messages to UN high-level meeting
At the UN high-level meeting on AIDS in New York in June 2008, Alliance India’s Sonal Mehta urged leaders to be bold and not discriminate between “deserving” and “undeserving” people living with HIV. Speaking as a civil society representative in one of the panel discussions, Sonal explained how key populations living with HIV faced stigma on three levels and appealed to leaders to support their human rights to health.
29 July 2008
Alliance India partners receive specialist child counselling training
Partners in Alliance India’s Chaha project have been improving their child counselling skills with specialist training. Participants found out more about innovative approaches for counselling children, such as using arts and crafts, and will be putting their new skills into practice in their day-to-day work.
29 July 2008
International HIV/AIDS Alliance collaborates with Zambian government to support children
The Alliance is working with Zambia’s Department of Social Welfare to strengthen community support for orphaned and vulnerable children. In the past, civil society, the private sector and government have often acted in isolation, leading to a less effective response for children.
29 July 2008
Sharing the reality of drug use in Ukraine
Pavel Kutsev of the Drop-in Centre, a harm-reduction organisation working with drug users in Kiev, Ukraine, will soon be sharing the reality of his day-to day work with a wider audience thanks to social media tools. Pavel is going to be using blog posts, photos, podcasts and online videos to highlight the reality of drug use in Ukraine and its impact on public health. Here he tells us more about the work that the Drop-in Centre does.
29 July 2008
Good results for Alliance organisations in Global Fund Round 8 – so far!
Eleven Alliance organisations have been named as principal and sub-recipients in country proposals for the latest funding round from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Although the final proposals are currently being reviewed and yet to be approved, the estimated funding of around US$250 million over five years will have a significant impact on the Alliance’s contribution to the HIV response.
29 July 2008
Journalism competition shows HIV still high on the public agenda
An overwhelming response to the Guardian International Development Journalism Competition from amateur and professional journalists has shown that HIV is still high on the public agenda.
29 July 2008
Linking learning and action: the importance of research
The Institute of Development Studies and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance have announced a new ongoing research partnership that will explore topics such as access to treatment care, health systems and effective influencing strategies. The collaboration is underpinned by the belief that there is a need to strengthen the links between evidence, and policy and practice.
23 July 2008
The Guardian International Development Journalism competition
Forty semi-finalists have now been chosen for the Guardian International Development Journalism, a project to find aspiring UK-based journalists who care about the developing world.
17 July 2008
Reassessing HIV Prevention
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance has published a response to the article, “Reassessing HIV Prevention” which appeared in Science magazine on May 14 2008.
30 June 2008
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Act now for health, a joint campaign by Action for Global Health, the Global Movement for Children, Oxfam International, Save the Children UK and WorldVision International, is calling for world governments to ensure that health is a priority in 2008.
2008 is the mid-way point to achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, and also marks the 30-year anniversary of the Declaration of Alma Ata – a declaration upholding the right to health and calling on the international community to make healthcare for all a reality by the year 2000.
Visit Act now for health to find out more and to support the call.
New short film outlines the Alliance's vision to 2010
A short film discussing the Alliance’s vision behind its new strategic framework to 2010 is now available. The film looks at the contribution that the Alliance plans to make to the HIV response.
Warning: fraudulent use of Alliance name
Innocent people are being targeted by fraudsters, posing as representatives or employees of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
