International News
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- Medicines for Children Living with HIV
- Support the campaign by the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance to help children living with HIV!
Important Dates
- Global Partners in Action: NGO Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Development, September 2–4, 2009
- Invest in Health, Rights and the Future
- Berlin, Germany
- World Health Summit in Berlin, October 15th – 18th, 2009
- The World Health Summit is the world’s foremost meeting of researchers, physicians, politicians and stake holders within the healthcare system. It takes place every year, with it premiere instalment in October 2009 in Berlin.
General News
Response from the Secretary General of the UN to the Sign-On Letter of the World AIDS Campaign
On June 16th 2009 the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the World AIDS Campaign and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) came together to announce the theme of “Universal Access and Human Rights”....
The Global Fund and Togo Sign Agreement to Fight HIV/AIDS
Lomé (16 July 2009) - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the Ministry of Health today signed a grant agreement worth € 20 million over two years for HIV and AIDS, the first part of a five-year national...
Kostya Proletarsky - a human face to TB/HIV epidemic in Russia
Please read this shocking appeal which is forwarded from Anya Sarang of the Andrey Rylkov Foundation for Health and Social Justice in Russia as a reminder of the attrocious conditions faced by our friends in the east.
5th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, Cape Town, South Africa
MSF Satellite Session at IAS 2009 - Sunday 19 July, 17:00-19:00
The Emergency Is Not Over: Access to Treatment and the Challenges of Long-Term Survival on Antiretrovirals
Financing the Response to AIDS in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
International Assistance from the G8, European Commission and Other Donor Governments in 2008 -- a chartpack by UNAIDS and the Kaiser Family Foundation.
International Development Under-Secretary of State, Mike Foster, backs UNITAID Patent Pool and urges pharma companies to join
Fantastic news, Mike Foster, International Development Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for United Kingdom, is backing the UNITAID HIV medicines patent pool and urging pharma companies to join.
UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board Meeting
The UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board met earlier this week in Geneva.