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NGOs in China say threatened by new donor rules
BEIJING — China has surprised thousands of aid groups by stepping in to regulate overseas donations for the first time, complicating efforts to get money from supporters in the United States and elsewhere. Some groups warned that losing the support could force many to shut down. China's leaders have only recently realized that outside help is needed on deep social welfare problems, but they wor...
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Ghana: Isodec Tracks Government HIV/Aids Resources
Accra — The Integrated Social Development Center (ISODEC) in collaboration with IDASA Governance and AIDS Programme (GAP) of South Africa is undertaking two researches. The studies are part of a multi-country research project being conducted in Burundi, Ghana, Namibia, Uganda and Zambia. The outcomes and recommendations from the studies will inform and assist in the formulation of targeted capa...
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India: Children, women with HIV face destitution & violence
Fifteen per cent of India’s 2.5 million HIV-positive are children. That’s 375,000 children, with 50,000 being born infected or becoming infected each year. The government has woken up to the tragedy of women and children infected or affected by AIDS and held a series of public hearings across the country recently. “HIV has been addressed for more than 20 years but there has not been enough focu...
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HIV-positive and worried about my baby
Dear Eve, I was reading one of your articles in the Daily Observer the other day and it sparked my interest. I'm in the same position as Clara. I recently found out I was positive during pregnancy. I seem to be adjusting well but I'm still worried about my baby as I'm still not sure of her status. I was placed on medication and my baby tested negative at birth but I'm still awaiting another res...
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Middle East: HIV cases reach 461,000 in 2008
Beirut gathering stresses need to evaluate AIDS prevention and care services BEIRUT - The number of HIV positive people in the Middle East reached about 461,000 by the end of 2008, revealed the 19th Gathering of the Directors of National AIDS Programs held on Saturday in Beirut. The gathering was attended by Health Minister Mohammad Jawad Khalifeh, regional directors of the World Health Org...
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China mulling lifting ban on visitors with HIV
BEIJING - China is considering overturning the ban that prohibits HIV-positive foreigners from entering the country, an official said here Friday. "We are discussing lifting the ban as soon as possible," Hao Yang, deputy director-general of the Ministry of Health's Bureau of Disease Control, told Xinhua. Hao made the remarks when responding to a question concerning media reports that Robert ...
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Dr. Joanne Carter, executive director of RESULTS, testifies before House Foreign Affairs Committee
Calls on Congress to reverse President Obama’s cut to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Washington, DC — Dr. Joanne Carter, executive director of RESULTS/RESULTS Educational Fund, made the following statement before the House Committee on Foreign Affaairs Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health about the need to increase Global AIDS funding over President Obama’s budget r...
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Global Fund reports resounding successes in HIV, Malaria and TB Prevention and Treatment
PRETORIA - Imagine a situation where all HIV positive pregnant mothers in the world give birth to negative children. Malaria is eliminated as a public health problem within a decade in most countries, and tuberculosis prevalence is halved internationally by 2015. This might seem far-fetched especially in the developing world, but it is possible if current rates of progress by The Global Fund To Fi...
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UK calls for bold new plan to get poverty goals back on track
The UK will press world leaders to agree to an ambitious action plan to get the Millennium Development Goals back on track to be achieved by 2015, Douglas Alexander said today. The International Development Secretary used a gathering of development experts to put forward bold proposals that will input into the international negotiations ahead of a key UN summit in September, including a doublin...
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Bill Clinton, Bill Gates unite in foreign aid plea
WASHINGTON — Former president Bill Clinton and Microsoft founder Bill Gates called Wednesday on US lawmakers to boost foreign aid to fight diseases like HIV/AIDS and malaria in the world's poorest nations. The leading philanthropists went to Capitol Hill to boost support for the so-called Global Health Initiative (GHI) and promote a crucial health aid budget bill proposed in 2009 by President B...
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British Government, HIV/AIDS Advocates Warn Decreased Aid Budgets Could Lead To Reversals In HIV/AIDS Treatment Progress
Recent gains in the global fight against HIV/AIDS could be reversed as the "global economic downturn pinches poor countries' budgets and donors show signs of backing away from their promise to provide universal access to AIDS treatment," the British government together with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warned Tuesday, Reuters AlertNet reports. "At an 'emergency meeting' in London to reinvigor...
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Call for urgent action to improve coverage of HIV services for injecting drug users
A review carried out by the 2009 Reference Group to the UN on HIV and Injecting Drug Use for the first time quantifies the scale of coverage of HIV prevention, treatment, and care services for injecting drug users (IDUs) worldwide. The study concludes that with, specific exceptions, worldwide coverage of these services in IDU populations is very low and unlikely to be sufficient to prevent, halt, ...
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Time for drug giants to jump into the patent pool?
While drugmaking giant GlaxoSmithKline has picked up a load of good press for CEO Andrew Witty's developing world initiatives - from ploughing back some of the (tiny) profits made in Africa to the more interesting patent pool it announced for neglected tropical diseases - it is Californian rival Gilead that gets a higher approval rating at the moment from Aids campaigners. Gilead has at least nomi...
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Zimbabwe: Donor HIV/Aids Funding Declines
Harare — HIV AND Aids funding from the donor community has decreased by more than 50 percent since 2006, the National Aids Council has said. Though the council refused to give possible reasons for the decline, a senior Health Ministry official said this was linked to "undeclared sanctions". Presenting the National Aids Spending Assessment Report for 2006 and 2007 last week, NAC financial dir...
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Britain backs billion condoms for South Africa as part of new drive to re-energise global efforts to tackle HIV and AIDS
International Development Minister, Gareth Thomas, today announced £1 million in UK aid to help the Government of South Africa purchase one billion condoms in support of a fresh HIV prevention drive. UK aid from the Department for International Development (DFID) will provide 42 million condoms towards the one billion target helping to prevent future infections in the world’s most HIV endemic c...
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Funding squeeze threatens HIV progress, AIDS leaders warn
LONDON - Progress on tackling HIV and AIDS could go into reverse as the global economic downturn pinches poor countries' budgets and donors show signs of backing away from their promise to provide universal access to AIDS treatment, the British government and an aid group warned on Tuesday. At an "emergency meeting" in London to reinvigorate international efforts to fight the pandemic, the Brit...
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Ugandan Government Unable to Afford Treatment for AIDS Patients
Uganda is unable to offer lifetime treatment to the country’s 350,000 AIDS patients because it can’t afford the $4 billion it would cost to supply them with medication, the Uganda Aids Commission said. The high cost and the continuing increase in the number of infected adults and children makes the “target of achieving universal access to HIV prevention, care and treatment impossible to attain ...
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AIDS Care Gap between Europe and Southern Countries Risks Becoming a Chasm: Survival at risk for ten million waiting for AIDS treatment
London – AIDS leaders gathering in London today face the daunting challenge of implementing new World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations for earlier treatment with better AIDS drug cocktails at a time when donors are backing away from the promise of “universal access”, warns Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The WHO recently released new treatment recommendations for people living with HIV...
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DFID research: helping eliminate gender inequality
Poverty elimination can only be achieved by addressing the disproportionate burden of poverty borne by women. Eliminating gender inequality and achieving women's empowerment are essential to achieving all the Millennium Development Goals and so gender issues are increasingly integrated into projects across DFID's research portfolio. This includes research on removing barriers to women’s participat...
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AIDS rise may force India to spend more: World Bank
India will have to scale up prevention of HIV to avoid having to spend an increasing share of its health budget on treatment of AIDS patients, the World Bank and other agencies said Sunday. New Delhi spends about 5 percent of its $5.4 billion healthcare budget on treating AIDS patients. India with 2.5 million patients is among the top three countries with the highest number of HIV cases, alo...
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