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More Information for Improved Country Response Division Feature Stories
- Resource needs for AIDS in low- and middle-income countries: estimation process and methods
- Resource needs for AIDS in low- and middle-income countries: estimation process and methods
- Latin America countries discuss AIDS spending
- Understanding the magnitude of spending on AIDS programmes, the sources of such funding, and the activities supported by such expenditures is critically important to policymakers, programme planners, and international donors.
- AIDS: everybody’s business
- Finding innovative solutions to key health challenges to ensure the long-term economic development and well being of nations worldwide was the focus for business leaders attending the three-day meeting of New Champions, which took place in Dalian in the People’s Republic of China from 6 to 8 September 2007.
- The process behind AIDS estimates
- As part of continuning efforts to gain a better understanding of the AIDS epidemic, UNAIDS and WHO have taken a series of measures to improve the estimation process. Countries have been encouraged to expand their data collection methods, methodology used to analyse this new data has been improved and a series of workshops have been held to train people in countries in the complex process of estimating the AIDS epidemic. This process is resulting in more concise estimations and a better understan
- Funding estimates for AIDS research and development
- For a comprehensive response to AIDS, developing additional HIV prevention methods and tools to prevent HIV – such as HIV vaccines and microbicides -- is a key component.
- Improving national and regional HIV estimates
- Between March and June 2007, national epidemiologists, analysts and heads of AIDS programmes from 124 countries have taken part in specialist UNAIDS training to improve and refine country HIV estimates.
- Results of recent population-based surveys
- By mid 2007 a total of 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa had conducted surveys. In addition the two countries in the Caribbean with the largest HIV burden, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, as well as India and Cambodia in Asia had also conducted population-based surveys
- 2.5 million people living with HIV in India
- As part of its continuous efforts to know its epidemic better, India’s National AIDS Control Organisation, supported by UNAIDS, is using data from the expanded surveillance system and a new population-based survey to produce more accurate estimates of the AIDS epidemic in India.
- Scaling up through partnerships
- Donors, AIDS experts and implementers from around the world are gathering in Kigali, Rwanda to attend the 2007 HIV/AIDS Implementers’ Meeting.
- New report shows increase in AIDS financing but funding still falls short
- Financing the response to the global AIDS epidemic has emerged as one of the world’s greatest health and development challenges.
- Keeping Score: AIDS responses in the Caribbean
- To demonstrate commitments and progress made by countries in the Caribbean to addressing AIDS, and to highlight programming challenges , the CARICOM based Pan-Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) have launched a comprehensive report on national AIDS responses in the region.
- UN General Assembly meets on AIDS
- At the 61st session of the General Assembly, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon confirmed his support to the AIDS response promising to ensure that the international community remains united against the epidemic.
- Drive for AIDS funding in Côte d’Ivoire
- The President of Côte d’Ivoire, His Excellency Laurent Gbagbo, is leading the drive to mobilize resources for the implementation of the county’s national AIDS plan.
- Launch of the 2007 Global Tuberculosis Control Report
- The lethal combination of TB and HIV will be highlighted on this year’s World TB Day 24th March. TB is a leading cause of death among people living with HIV––and the weakened immune system caused by HIV makes people living with HIV at greatly increased risk of developing TB disease. UNAIDS, WHO and the Stop TB Partnership have pledged to work together to fight against these deadly viruses.
- UNAIDS Executive Director visits Ireland
- UNAIDS Executive Director was in Dublin, Ireland on Tuesday 30th January to sign with Conor Lenihan TD, Minister of State for Irish Aid, a new €30 million, five year partnership between Ireland and UNAIDS.
- World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2007
- Some 2,400 people from 90 countries are attending the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. The meeting, taking place from 24-28 January, has attracted global leaders from government, business, religious, media and civil society sectors. The overarching theme this year is “Shaping the Global Agenda, The Shifting Power Equation,” focusing in particular on political and socio-economic issues.
- UNAIDS helps secure grants in the Middle East and North Africa
- The number of people living with HIV in the Middle East and North Africa has risen to 460,000 and some 68,000 people were newly infected in 2006 alone. In a bid to curb the region’s growing epidemic, five countries have been working with UNAIDS to prepare HIV grant proposals to the 6th Round of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, four of which were successful in obtaining additional funding for the national AIDS response.
- UNAIDS/WHO launch 2006 AIDS epidemic update
- UNAIDS launched the new joint UNAIDS/WHO report, AIDS Epidemic Update 2006, featuring updated global and regional AIDS estimates and new trends in the epidemic’s evolution on 21 November 2006.
- UNITAID launched
- UNITAID - an international drug purchasing facility – financed by air ticket tax levies and other sources – was officially launched on Tuesday 19 September on the opening day of the 61st session of the United Nations General Assembly.
- Innovative AIDS funding takes off
- For several years now, the international community has been looking for new tools to ensure sustained financing for development and the fight against poverty. A recent international conference on “Solidarity and Globalization: innovative financing for development and against pandemics”, held in Paris, brought together more than one hundred countries from the around the world as well as,18 international organizations and 60 NGOs to discuss the implementation of innovative financing for developmen