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More Aid Effectiveness & Country Capacity Division Feature Stories
- Addressing the health worker shortage crisis
- One of the major constraints to addressing both the AIDS epidemic and global access to essential health care services is the serious shortage of healthcare workers.
- US Senate Committee discusses AIDS
- At a special hearing--'Meeting the Global Challenge of AIDS, TB and Malaria'--UNAIDS Executive Director Dr Peter Piot addressed the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) about AIDS, the work of UNAIDS to address the epidemic, and the critical difference that the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has made in the AIDS response.
- President focuses on AIDS in Mexico
- As part of a six-day visit to Mexico, the Executive Director of UNAIDS, Dr Peter Piot, met with Mexico’s President, Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, to discuss ways of increasing collaboration to strengthen the response to AIDS in the country.
- Progress and challenges for Botswana
- In a joint mission, UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman, UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot and Dr Tadatakai Yamada, President of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Programme visited Botswana to gain a shared perspective of the progress and challenges facing the country in its AIDS response.
- UNAIDS pledges to help ‘make the money work’ for Global Fund
- 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.
- Global Fund Replenishment meeting opens in Berlin
- Delegates from donor countries and international organizations gathered in Berlin on Wednesday 26 September to begin the second of the Global Fund’s biennial meetings to raise funds for its programmes to provide essential HIV, tuberculosis and malaria services in developing countries.
- 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.
- Improving partnership and harmonization on AIDS
- To help countries ensure inclusive, participatory national responses to AIDS, UNAIDS with the World Bank has developed the ‘Country Harmonization and Alignment Tool (CHAT) to help map stakeholders in countries and assess the strengths and weaknesses of their engagement with the national AIDS response.
- India: Driving forward an effective AIDS response
- As India launches its National AIDS Control Plan III-widely recognized as being the most effective AIDS plan India has had - UNAIDS underlines India’s potential to ‘set an example for the rest of the world’
- 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.
- Prevention programming for young people
- Following the official opening of the HIV/AIDS Implementers Meeting in Kigali, presenters from Ethiopia, Mozambique, Uzbekistan, Namibia and Haiti shared their experiences in HIV prevention programming for young people.
- AIDS responses in post-conflict Sierra Leone
- In 2005, HIV prevalence in Sierra Leone was at 1.6%, but in the post-conflict reconstruction of Sierra Leone, the response to the AIDS epidemic came far down the list of priorities. In a bid to strengthen the response to AIDS in the country UNAIDS established an office in Freetown in January of 2005 which helped pave the way for HIV to be mainstreamed into development instruments and forums such as the Poverty Reduction Strategy, the United Nations Development Assistance Framework, the Development Partners’ Committee and Donors’ Consultative Group meetings.
- Involving communities in national AIDS responses
- UNAIDS in collaboration with the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO), the African Council of AIDS Service Organizations (AfriCASO) and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance are launching Coordinating with Communities – Guidelines on the Involvement of the Community Sector in the Coordination of National AIDS Responses.
- Haiti: UNAIDS strengthening partnerships to ‘make the money work’
- In Haiti, UNAIDS and the Fondation SOGEBANK – the Global Fund’s principal recipient in the country – kick off a series of initiatives to help develop a multi-sectoral AIDS response in the country with an event to encourage action from the business sector.
- South Africa marks key AIDS milestones
- The AIDS response in South Africa has been given a boost with the successful endorsement of two key processes: the restructured South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) and a new national AIDS plan which will guide South Africa’s response to AIDS over the next five years.
- Swaziland: community involvement key
- The involvement and participation of communities in providing care and support to people living with HIV and orphans in Swaziland has been heralded as a prime example of ‘best practice’
- Supporting people living with HIV in China
- In 2005 UNAIDS estimated that there were close to 650,000 people living with HIV in China, a country which has many factors that could lead to a rapid spread of the epidemic; high mobility, large-scale labour migration, high numbers of sex workers, low condom use, a large number of people who inject drugs, low overall awareness of AIDS as well as severe stigma and discrimination surrounding HIV.
- Rwanda ready for Implementers Meeting
- Despite many challenges in the country, Rwanda is demonstrating an exceptional commitment to bring together a successful 2007 HIV/AIDS Implementer’s Meeting in Kigali.
- Intensifying HIV prevention: country guidance critical
- Guidance for countries on the definitions, core components and quality standards for HIV prevention activities is critical for future action to intensify prevention, world experts said at the recent meeting of the UNAIDS HIV Prevention Reference Group.
- Burkina Faso: 'Exceptional leadership' on AIDS
- At the 6th annual session of Burkina Faso’s National AIDS Commission, President Blaise Compaoré underlined his personal commitment to AIDS issues, chairing the 10-hour session and calling for a scaling-up of the AIDS response towards universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support in the country.