UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director Luiz Loures met with Ton Coenen, Executive Director of AIDS Fonds, on 13 November to discuss the current funding mechanisms for community organizations and to explore how UNAIDS can be further engaged in supporting civil society efforts.
Ideas discussed included how UNAIDS could help channel new funding to national civil society groups and convene stakeholders to identify policy changes that would increase strategic investment in community-based work.
The urgent need for increased financial investment in community-based services and advocacy was one of the main themes discussed at the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) meeting in October. At the PCB, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé committed to expanding UNAIDS’s efforts in support of funding for community responses.
