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Funding for AIDS drugs in jeopardy as global financial crisis hits health sector
28 April 2009|
A new report from the World Bank reports preliminary findings from a survey in 69 countries conducted by the World Bank, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization showing that respondents in 22 countries in Africa, the Caribbean, Europe and Central Asia, and Asia and Pacific expect the economic crisis to impact HIV treatment programmes over the coming year.
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Joint action for results: UNAIDS outcome framework, 2009 – 2011
22 April 2009|
The HIV organizational landscape has evolved and grown more complex over the past decade. UNAIDS, donors and civil society, including networks of people living with HIV, have rightly demanded greater clarity on the relationships between needs, financing, activities and outcomes. Also demanded is greater specificity about the role of UNAIDS and the Secretariat within the wider constellation of actors.
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UNAIDS Committee of Cosponsoring Organizations meet
06 April 2009|
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) brings together the efforts and resources of ten UN system organizations in the AIDS response. The UNAIDS Committee of Cosponsoring Organizations (CCO) serves as the forum for these Cosponsors to meet on a regular basis to consider matters of major importance to UNAIDS, and to provide input from the Cosponsoring organizations into the policies and strategies of UNAIDS.
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World Bank highlights potential risks of AIDS to economic and social development in South Asia
05 March 2009|
The AIDS epidemic may pose a considerable danger to the economic and social development of South Asian countries unless those at highest risk of infection are reached by scaled up prevention programmes, according to a new World Bank report.
Understanding HIV transmission for an improved AIDS response in West Africa
03 December 2008|
On the opening day of International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA), taking place in Mali under the theme “Africa’s Response: Face the facts,” the World Bank launched a new report exploring the character of the HIV epidemics and responses in countries in West Africa.
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ICASA 2008: Courage and Hope, African teachers living positively
03 December 2008|
A film telling four teachers’ experiences of living positively with HIV is premiered in Africa on the opening day of ICASA in Dakar along with the launch of the book “Courage and Hope: Stories from teachers living with HIV and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.”
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World Bank lays out new AIDS strategy for 2007-2011
14 May 2008|
In a new report launched 14 May 2008, the World Bank reaffirms its commitment to a long-term engagement to the AIDS response in Africa.
AIDS, nutrition and food security
29 November 2007|
In advance of World AIDS Day, UNAIDS cosponsor organizations the World Food Programme and the World Bank have released reports focusing on AIDS, nutrition, and food security.
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UNAIDS pledges to help ‘make the money work’ for Global Fund
27 September 2007|
World Leaders joined in Berlin, Germany on Thursday 27 September to announce their financial pledges to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria for the next three years.

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