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- African leaders embrace shared responsibility and call for innovative solutions to accelerate the response to AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria
- African leaders gathered in New York on the sidelines of the 67th Session of the United Nations General Assembly to discuss the African Union (AU) Roadmap. This initiative outlines long-term sustainable strategies to finance and provide access to HIV treatment and prevention services and other health services in Africa as called for in the Millennium Development Goals.
- The Dominican Republic to confront its HIV treatment gap
- The Dominican Republic is one step closer to ensuring that all people living with HIV access treatment. The country’s National Social Security Council has established a commission to look into the technical, financial and operational implications of including antiretroviral treatment in the Basic Health Plan.
- TB and HIV integration discussed at AIDS 2012
- To give voice to TB and HIV affected communities around the world by sharing their experience and views on the way forward in the fight against the two diseases, a live web casted talk show took place at the Newseum during the International AIDS Conference entitled “Tuberculosis + HIV: Protecting the Vulnerable”.
- The HIV experience and other chronic diseases
- Taking HIV out of isolation, a satellite session at the 19th International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC, examined ways in which service delivery systems have evolved in addressing HIV as a chronic health issue.
- Strengthening health systems: delivering on the broader health and development agenda
- “Health and Social Affairs: Making Health Systems Work to Effective HIV Response,” was the title of a ministerial panel held on the third day of the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA). The panel showcased the impact the AIDS response has had additional benefits for the broader health and development.
- UNAIDS Board members learn about Kenya’s AIDS response
- A delegation of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) has just concluded a field visit to Kenya. The delegation learned first hand about the government’s strong commitment to a multi-sectoral and integrated AIDS response, including working with civil society organizations in planning and delivering HIV services.
- Can MDG 6 be achieved with the Health Workforce we have?
- If international aims such as achieving health-related MDGs are to be realised, the serious global shortage of health workers must be urgently addressed. At a side-event during the High Level Meeting on AIDS in New York, the need to recognize human resources as crucial to the global AIDS response was explored in depth.
- It’s possible: Making the most of linking sexual and reproductive health and HIV responses
- Linking sexual and reproductive health and HIV is of critical importance. On 8 June, during a side event at this week’s High Level Meeting on AIDS in New York, the question of how exactly such linkages can be strengthened was explored in depth.
- Yale convenes together senior health practitioners to build leadership and strategic problem-solving to improve health systems
- The Global Health Leadership Institute (GHLI) of Yale University held its 2011 GHLI Conference from 5-10 June 2001 under the theme of “moving health systems forward”.
- A sustainable HIV response: New global health sector strategy to help chart the way forward
- The World Health Assembly today adopted a new comprehensive Global Health Sector Strategy for HIV/AIDS 2011-2015, spearheaded by WHO. The strategy aims to provide a detailed and comprehensive guide to how health sectors can most effectively tackle the epidemic.
- Investment in health is an investment in economic development
- African Ministers of Health and Finance came together in Addis Ababa on 29 March 2011 for a high level panel discussion to explore new ways of investing in health.
- WHO World health report: The road to universal coverage
- If countries are to guarantee a good quality of life for their people and ensure socio-economic development then promoting and protecting health is crucial. Without greater emphasis on health systems financing, however, this goal will remain unattainable for the poor, says the WHO’s World health report 2010, launched today.
- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits “one-stop shop” health centre for HIV services in Hanoi, Viet Nam
- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited a “one-stop shop” health centre for HIV services in Hanoi, Viet Nam on 29 October together with H.E. Mr Truong Vinh Trong, Deputy Prime Minster and chairman of the National Committee on AIDS, and delegates of the United Nations Country Team.
- Country spotlight Botswana: ‘the AIDS response has been catalytic in strengthening our health system’
- Botswana’s coordinator of the National AIDS Coordinating Agency, Richard Matlhare, shares his thoughts on Botswana’s progress in MDG 6.
- UNAIDS calls better integration of HIV prevention and treatment in maternal, newborn and child health programmes in Ethiopia
- The Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé paid a visit to Ethiopia to discuss ways of accelerating progress towards achieving universal access to HIV services and reaching the Millennium Development Goals in the country.
- UNAIDS satellite explores paving the way towards virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV
- UNAIDS hosted a satellite at AIDS 2010 on preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV 19 July. It was co-chaired by Antony Lake, Executive Director of UNICEF and Hiroki Nakatani, Assistant Director General of World Health Organization (WHO) and coordinated by Gottfried Hirnschall, Director of the HIV department (WHO). Opening remarks were delivered by Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS and Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and Ambassador Eric Goosby, United States Global AIDS Coordinator.
- UNAIDS, Millennium Villages join forces to keep children free from HIV in Africa
- UNAIDS and the Millennium Villages Project signed an agreement in New York to strengthen efforts to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Africa. The aim of the partnership is to help local governments create “Mother to child transmission-free zones” in 14 ‘Millennium Villages’ across ten African countries.
- Public-private partnerships strengthen health systems and AIDS response
- A new UNAIDS report looks at the contribution of AIDS-related public-private partnerships to the six building blocks of health systems: service delivery; human resources; information; medicines and technologies; financing; and leadership.
- AIDS and global health
- The High-Level Forum on Advancing Global Health in the Face of Crisis is taking place at United Nations Headquarters on Monday, 15 June 2009. The Secretary-General is hosting the day long forum in order to elevate the global health debate and engage multisectoral representatives from around the world.
- ICASA 2008: Long term financing for a sustainable response in Africa
- The priority of investment in health is crucial for African countries’ successful development stressed Dr Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. Dr Kazatchkine was speaking at the 15th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) where he highlighted the need for a long-term approach to the reinforcement of health systems in sub-Saharan Africa. Only this will mean a sustainable response to the AIDS epidemic.