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Universal Access to HIV/Aids Medicines
Recent Additions
- Keep the Promise! Access for All!
- April 2010
- PDF, English
- This booklet tells the life stories of five people from South Africa. It uses them as examples to show the tragedies that occur when there is inadequate access to HIV prevention and treatment measures. But it also shows how the effects can be eased through solidarity, self-help initiatives and medical care.
- The life stories are based on conversations the author had in South Africa with people living with HIV. We would like to express our particular gratitude to Sheila, Susan, Flora and Andile for their willingness to share their stories with us although not all of them dare to reveal them openly to the people in their own communities. We admire all four of them for their courage and commitment!
- The work carried on daily in organisations such as the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), the Ndlovu Care Group and People of Hope is truly remarkable and we would also like to express our thanks to them for having given us insight into the wonderful work they do.
- by Action against Aids Geermyn
Links and Documents
Links
- Progress towards Universal Access: 2008 country fact sheets
- by UNAIDS
- Progress Reports by The Global Fund
- with various studies and progess reports by the Global Fund
Films and Flash
- Interactive Map: Towards Universal Access
- Countries who have set Universal Access Targets
- by UNAIDS
- Jonathan Mwiindi: Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network
- July 2009
- YouTube video, English
- Interview with Jonathan Mwiindi about the lack of paediatric HIV/AIDS formulations / HIV/Aids medicines for children.
Documents
- MSF: Punishing Success? Early Signs of a Retreat from Commitment to HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment
- November 2009
- PDF, English
- Over the past decade, enormous resources have been mobilised globally to address the HIV/AIDS crisis on a large scale. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has seen first-hand the achievements, as well as some of the shortcomings, of these efforts in the course of providing care and treatment in more than 30 countries.
- by the Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines (Médecins Sans Frontières - MSF)
- Towards Universal Access: Scaling up Priority HIV/AIDS Interventions in the Health Sector, Progress Report 2009
- September 2009
- PDF, English
- More than 4 million people in low- and middle-income countries were receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) at the close of 2008, representing a 36% increase in one year and a ten-fold increase over five years, according to a new report (see the accompanying press release here)
- by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
- The Treatment Timebomb: Report of the Inquiry of The All Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS into long-term access to HIV medicines in the developing world
- July 2009
- PDF, English
- Reducing the costs of drugs could enable savings that could fund access to life-saving treatment for an dditional one million people every year, even without new resources.
- The All-Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS is a backbench cross-Party Group of MPs and Peers in the UK Parliament at Westminster.
- UNAIDS Annual Report 2008: Towards Universal Access
- June 2009
- PDF, English
- UNAIDS - What countries need: Investments needed for 2010 targets
- February 2009
- PDF, English
- What is needed today is stronger political will, paired with a deep appreciation of human rights. Universal access has to become a reality for the hundreds of millions of people who are vulnerable to HIV infection and the millions of people living with HIV and their loved ones. Investments already made in responses to AIDS are showing results. This is a time for scaling up, not scaling down.
- Letter of Action against Aids Germany to Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS, in repsonse to the report
- 20 April 2008
- PDF, English
- Appeal to complete and publish as soon as possible an updated resource needs estimate that is based on the best available data and scientific criteria regarding populations in need and access targets for key interventions and describes the principal gaps in relation to country-defined targets.
- Appendix to the letter: Contradictions in UNAIDS Reports: Comparison of Expected Outcomes for 2010 According to Country-defined Targets and Universal Access Estimates (million), PDF
- Response letter from the office of Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS
- 5th November 2009
- PDF, English
- by Carlos Avila, Chief, AIDS Financing and Economics Division a.i.
- UNAIDS: Financial Resources Required to Achieve Universal Access to HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support
- September 2007
- PDF. English
- The failure of half-measures to stem the worldwide expansion of HIV has led the global community to embrace the goal of moving towards universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010. The move towards universal access reflects a commitment to undertake an accelerated scale-up of evidence-informed measures in all regions of the world to address an epidemic that has inflicted history’s “single greatest reversal in human development” (Human Development Report, 2005).
Tools by UNAIDS
The following tools were taken from the web page "Setting National Targets", that also contains an interactive module which displays a summary of national targets setting processes:
- Setting national targets for moving towards universal access by 2010: operational guidance.
- October 2006
- PDF, English
- Considerations for countries to set their own national targets for HIV prevention, treatment and care.
- April 2006
- PDF, English
- Scaling up access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support: the next steps.
- August 2006
- PDF, English