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- World Bank lays out new AIDS strategy for 2007-2011
- 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.
- Human rights and gender in HIV-related legal frameworks
- In adopting the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS in 2001 at the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, Governments have fully recognized the importance of protecting human rights and gender equality through appropriate legal frameworks in national responses to HIV.
- UNFPA: Bringing HIV services directly to communities in Côte d'Ivoire
- “I’m here because I have four children,” explains a 48-year-old sex worker, who asked that her name not be used. Today she is being tested for HIV at a mobile health clinic, run by the volunteers of the Association for the Promotion of Mother, Child and Family Health (APROSAM) which is supported by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
- African Ministers reaffirm commitment to Millennium Development Goals
- African Ministers of Finance and Development Planning concluded their 3-day meeting with a statement reaffirming their commitment to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Africa by 2015.
- African First Ladies meet on AIDS
- The Organisation of African First Ladies against HIV and AIDS (OAFLA), held their 5th Extra Ordinary General Assembly in Addis Ababa from 1-2 February.
- Faith leaders join in Nigeria on AIDS
- Over 150 leaders from all denominations of Christian and Islamic faith communities came together in Abuja, Nigeria to take stock of faith-based organizations’ achievements and good practices within the AIDS response in the country and to examine challenges faced for the future.
- African First Ladies determined to speed up AIDS response
- Representatives from more than 20 countries gathered in Accra, Ghana on the occasion of the 5th General Assembly of the Organization of African First Ladies Against AIDS (OAFLA) held on the margins of the 9th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union.
- 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.
- 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.
- The UN: Delivering as One
- UNAIDS’ Deputy Executive Director Deborah Landey was in Brazzaville recently to participate in a meeting on ‘Africa’s agenda in a reforming UN system’.
- HIV/TB features in World TB Day events
- Events linked to World TB Day in Ghana and Malawi highlight the importance of greater collaboration between the HIV and TB communities in order to reduce the burden of these leading causes of death.
- 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.
- Contemporary African art and AIDS
- Tradition, nature, myths and day-to-day life are sources of inspiration that shape the works of contemporary African artists.
- Traditional healers join the AIDS response
- Traditional healers are respected members of communities and play a critical role in the health-care delivery system, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Towards universal access: West and Central Africa
- The renewed commitment to universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support undertaken by countries across the world, has paved the way in West and Central Africa to more inclusive dialogue among partners, galvanizing consensus around the core challenges currently obstructing the national response, and strengthening joint determination to scale up national programmes.
- How business could succeed in scaling up the business response to AIDS in Africa
- In the first ever study of its kind, “The State of Business Coalitions in Sub-Saharan Africa” shows how 27 countries are supporting businesses in addressing HIV/AIDS.
- Universal access: New push from African civil society
- Thirty representatives from the African Civil Society Coalition on HIV and AIDS attended the International AIDS Conference in Toronto to push forward the agenda on universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support for all Africans.
- New African resolve to combat AIDS, TB and Malaria
- African leaders and Heads of State recently met in Abuja, Nigeria at a Special Summit on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to address the challenges posed by the three diseases that kill an estimated four million Africans every year.
- African Union and UN launch bold initiative to scale up HIV prevention in Africa
- In an attempt to step up the pace of HIV prevention in Africa, the African Union and United Nations launched a new initiative last week to scale up HIV prevention programmes in Africa.