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  • Tackling HIV and tuberculosis

    Ezio Tavora dos Santos Filho, an international HIV and tuberculosis activist, asks why the global community isn’t doing more to tackle the problem of HIV and tuberculosis co-infection, which kills around half of all people living with HIV.

    30 October 2008

  • USA HIV/AIDS coordinator visits Alliance Ukraine and pledges continued support for scale-up of methadone-based treatment

    On 15 October, Ambassador Mark Dybul, United States Global HIV/AIDS Coordinator, visited the International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine and affirmed US support for the scale-up of methadone-based treatment programmes in the fight against HIV. He also emphasised the importance of partnership between government and civil society to strengthen the national HIV response in Ukraine.

    30 October 2008

  • Life skills education for orphans and vulnerable children in India

    Education in life skills has recently come to be regarded as a vital component in HIV programmes in India, particularly for young people. The complex range of issues associated with HIV that young people face such as dealing with vulnerabilities about their own or their parents status, peer pressure and stigmatisation, media exposure, and gender inequality, has led to increasing support over the last decade for the teaching of life skills.

    29 October 2008

  • Alliance technical support hubs encourage new horizontal cooperation

    In an example of south-south collaboration through the Alliance’s new technical support hubs, Alliance India has provided specialist monitoring and evaluation (M&E) support to the Khmer HIV/AIDS NGO Alliance (KHANA), the Alliance’s linking organisation in Cambodia.

    28 October 2008

  • Board approval confirms the merger of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and Health & Development Networks

    The merger between the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and Health & Development Networks has been approved by the board of directors of each organisation. The merger will lead to a new joint Alliance-HDN foundation that will be an arm of the Alliance Secretariat, providing specialised support to Alliance country offices and linking organisations, and to other nationally-based civil society organisations.

    28 October 2008

  • HIV, antiretroviral treatment, and HIV sexual transmission: what’s new?

    In the first of a series of HIV best practice updates Ade Fakoya, senior adviser on HIV and health services in the Alliance secretariat’s HIV Best Practice team, captures the latest thinking around the sexual transmission of HIV. In this article he summarises some of the key issues explored in the full technical update.

    28 October 2008

  • Masters programme success leads to change on the ground

    Five members of the Alliance’s senior management have successfully completed an 18-month Masters programme in management, with their learning already translating into change on the ground. Milly Katana from Alliance Uganda, Patricia Nawa from Alliance Zambia, Roberto Nebrida from linking organisation the Philippines NGO Support Program (PHANSuP), Andriy Klepikov from Alliance Ukraine and Sujit Ghosh from the Alliance secretariat, all completed their final module for the International Masters in Practicing Management (IMPM) at INSEAD, France, in October.

    28 October 2008

  • Stop AIDS Alliance launches new website

    On 1 October, Stop AIDS Alliance (SAA) launched its new, enhanced website. Stop AIDS Alliance, based in Brussels, is a partnership between the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and STOP AIDS NOW! It advocates for the development and implementation of a comprehensive response to the HIV pandemic by the European Union (EU). As well as the new website, Stop AIDS Alliance now also has a new logo.

    28 October 2008

  • UK government minister visits the Alliance secretariat

    The International HIV/AIDS Alliance welcomed UK government minister Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International Development, to the secretariat’s new offices in Brighton on 23 October. As well as officially opening the offices, Mr Alexander spent an hour with Alliance staff and representatives from some Brighton-based tuberculosis (TB) organisations discussing how joint HIV and TB work is improving health services in some of the world’s poorest countries.

    28 October 2008

  • HIV community mourns loss of Martin Flynn

    The former editor of Positive Nation and committed journalist Martin Flynn sadly passed away on 23rd October 2008. Martin, who was openly HIV-positive, had recently taken on a role at the International AIDS Society. He was committed to overcoming stigma and discrimination through his work.

    27 October 2008

  • Missing in Mexico: 5,000 condoms

    The Condomóvil – a converted truck that takes condoms and HIV prevention messages directly to the community in Mexico – was stolen last week. Although the vehicle has since been recovered, 5,000 condoms are still missing, along with sound equipment and a motor used to inflate a giant condom.

    07 October 2008

  • Civil society success on the ground: a new publication from the Alliance and the Global Fund

    The International HIV/AIDS Alliance and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria have jointly published a report that aims to increase understanding of the interventions that the Global Fund would like to see prioritised in its country proposals. Using a series of case studies, the report illustrates the range of programmes that the Global Fund has prioritised for funding.

    29 September 2008

  • Report of the second International Conference on Reproductive Health Management

    The conference, which took place in Bali, Indonesia in May 2008 brought together nearly 400 participants from 25 countries, who shared their experiences and expertise in managing reproductive health programmes. The event was a collaborative effort between PHANSuP, the Alliance’s linking organisation in the Philippines, UNFPA Indonesia, the National Family Planning Coordination Board of Indonesia and the International Movement of Reproductive Health Managers and Advocates.

    29 September 2008

  • The Alliance's UK secretariat is moving!

    The UK secretariat is moving offices and Alliance secretariat staff will not be contactable by telephone or email on Thursday 2 and Friday 3 October 2008 while moving takes place. The new offices will open at 10.00am on Monday 6 October, when normal service will resume. Don’t forget to update your address book! Email addresses and phone numbers will remain unchanged.

    29 September 2008

  • Working with government and civil society in Uganda

    The International HIV/AIDS Alliance is working closely with government and civil society partners to deliver HIV projects in Uganda in its new role as Technical Management Agent for Uganda’s Civil Society Fund. The new role will see the Alliance working with Uganda’s Ministry of Health, its Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development and local government to develop technical support systems to scale up community-based HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services.

    29 September 2008

  • Cycling for the Alliance

    16-year-old student Christian Peters usually travels the 560km journey from the UK to see his family in Germany by aeroplane. This year he decided to reduce his carbon footprint by cycling the journey instead, raising money for the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and two other charities along the way. Christian tells us more about his experience.

    29 September 2008

  • HIV and tuberculosis co-infection must be a policy priority in Bangladesh

    A study by HASAB, the Alliance’s linking organisation in Bangladesh has highlighted that the country lacks an effective, coordinated policy action plan to address HIV and tuberculosis co-infection. The study also discovered a lack of public information about the risk of co-infection and inadequate skills among health care service providers to address the issue, and makes recommendations on how to improve the situation.

    29 September 2008

  • KHANA jointly organises national AIDS conference in Cambodia

    From 10 to 12 September 2008, hundreds of policy makers, activists, people living with HIV, sex workers and men who have sex with men gathered in Phnom Penh for Cambodia’s third National AIDS Conference, jointly organised by KHANA, the Alliance’s linking organisation in Cambodia. Participants discussed Cambodia’s progress on HIV and examined challenges and solutions for the future as part of the conference theme, ‘A greater multi-sectoral response to HIV and AIDS: towards universal access in Cambodia’.

    29 September 2008

  • Welcoming the Civil Society HIV/AIDS Network in Nigeria (CiSHAN)

    After two years of collaboration and partnership with the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, CiSHAN – a national network of civil society organisations working on HIV in Nigeria – has started the process of becoming a linking organisation of the Alliance.

    29 September 2008

  • 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

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