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BALKA: Women, HIV, and Drug use in Ukraine

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The fall of the Soviet Union led to a surge in injecting drug use and skyrocketing rates of HIV spread through shared injecting equipment. A documentary film directed by Anya Meksin and Leeza Meksin and produced by Sophie Pinkham, Balka details the lives of women struggling with drug use and HIV in Ukraine.Through the course of the film the audience meets Zina and Marina, best friends and active drug users about to discover their HIV status; Tanya, HIV-positive mother of two who is receiving more...

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D C on May 15, 2012

Ripe for Innovation: Democratized Diagnostics for the bottom of pyramid

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nextbillion.net –

Take Diagnostics for All, a social enterprise innovating point-of-care (PoC) diagnostics. Its new liver-health test in India is the size of a postage stamp and free of equipment, allowing providers to perform tests just about anywhere, in under 15 minutes, and for less than one cent. As the enterprise reminds us, “in resource-poor countries, where roughly 20 percent of TB patients and 25 percent of HIV patients, lacking access to diagnostic tools, succumb to liver complications,” this is no more...

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D C on May 10, 2012

The Socio-Economic Impact of HIV at the Household Level in Asia

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HIV among women and girls has seemingly reached a plateau of approximately 35% of all people living with HIV or AIDS for the region as a whole. the HIV, Health and Development Practice Team of UNDP’s Asia Pacific Regional Centre has undertaken a regional analysis of the socio-economic impact of HIV on women and girls at the household level using the sex-disaggregated data from the national studies. This report presents in detail the findings and recommendations of this analysis. The report more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 15, 2012

Characterizing the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the Middle East and North Africa

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openknowledge.worldbank.org –

Despite a fair amount of progress on understanding human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemiology globally, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is the only region where knowledge of the epidemic continues to be very limited, and subject to much controversy. It has been more than 25 years since the discovery of HIV, but no scientific study has provided a comprehensive data-driven synthesis of HIV/AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) infectious spread in this region. The current more...

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D C on May 10, 2012

Analysis of Key Human Rights Programmes in Global Fund Supported HIV Programmes

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This study was carried out by UNDP, the UNAIDS Secretariat and the Global Fund to answer the following three overarching questions:Are key human rights programmes included in successful Global Fund Round 6 and 7 HIV proposals and grants, and who are they intended to benefit? Are these human rights programmes funded in approved grant budgets?What progress has been made toward implementing these human rights programmes? i.e. Do performance frameworks include indicators for these programmes, and more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 15, 2012

UNITAID: Five years of innovation for better health

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Through spearheading innovative initiatives and providing financing for global health over the past five years, UNITAID has had a dramatic impact on millions of lives, using creative market approaches to increase access to treatment and diagnostics for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis.In its latest progress report, Five years of innovation for better health, UNITAID, which was established in 2006, highlights a series of successes that have led to more focused and effective interventions. This is more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 13, 2012

Rollout of voluntary medical male circumcision communication in Kenya

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c-hubonline.org –

From 2009 to 2011, Communication for Change (C-Change), USAID’s global project for improving the effectiveness and sustainability of communication programs, supported the rollout of the Government of Kenya’s Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) program in Nyanza Province and other provinces as part of a comprehensive HIV-prevention strategy. After findings from randomized control trials in Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa indicated that VMMC provides up to 60 percent protection for men more...

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D C on May 03, 2012

Global Report for Research on Infectious Diseases of Poverty

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Infectious diseases remain major causes of ill health among poor people. Almost 3 billion people live on less than US$ 2 a day, and they continue to be at the greatest risk for these diseases. How can this be possible when global health funding is increasing and new drugs and other health tools are being developed? How is research being prioritized to meet these needs, and can it be done better? While research funding to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB has increased, other infectious diseases more...

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D C on April 26, 2012

Conditional Cash Transfers and HIV/AIDS Prevention: Unconditionally Promising?

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wber.oxfordjournals.org –

Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have recently received considerable attention as a potentially innovative and effective approach to the prevention of HIV/AIDS. We evaluate a conditional cash transfer program in rural Malawi which offered financial incentives to men and women to maintain their HIV status for approximately one year. The amounts of the reward ranged from zero to approximately 3 - 4 months wage. We find no effect of the offered incentives on HIV status or on reported sexual more...

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D C on May 09, 2012

Gateways to integration: Linking Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS

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This case study is part of a series of joint publications of IPPF, UNFPA, UNAIDS and WHO on strengthening linkages between sexual and reproductive health and HIV. Increasingly the first two prongs – preventing new HIV infections (Prong 1) and preventing unintended pregnancies in women living with HIV (Prong 2) – are receiving the recognition, commitment and programming support required to have an impact.

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Sonia Hossain on May 10, 2012

How underfunding the Global Fund project impacts on the HIV responses

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aidsalliance.org –

In November 2011, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) announced that its’ next scheduled funding round was cancelled and that no new grants could be funded until 2014. This news hit just as major scientific breakthroughs and signs of real progress in hard-hit countries were starting to generate the most widespread optimism in the history of the AIDS epidemic. Now, all hopes of entering a new phase of the HIV response are effectively put on hold until at more...

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D C on May 08, 2012

USAID Rwanda : HIV and AIDS Health Profile

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allafrica.com –

The first case of HIV/AIDS in Rwanda was reported in 1983. Just three years later, with the national HIV prevalence rate at 17.8 percent among urban populations and 1.3 percent among rural populations, Rwanda was one of the African countries most affected by HIV/AIDS.

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Moushumi Biswas on May 09, 2012

Role of Fiscal Policy in Tackling the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Southern Africa

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Three countries in Southern Africa have the highest adult HIV prevalence in the world: Swaziland (25.9%), Botswana (24.8%), and Lesotho (23.6%). Fiscal policy is crucial for addressing this HIV/AIDS crisis. Utilizing a calibrated model, this paper investigates the impact of fiscal policy on reducing the HIV/AIDS incidence rates in these countries. In particular, we studied the welfare impact of different taxation and debt paths in these countries in reducing the HIV/AIDS prevalence rates. This more...

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D C on April 30, 2012

HIV, Drug Use and the Global Fund: Don’t Stop Now!

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aidsalliance.org –

This report examines the impact of the cancellation of Global Fund Round 11 funding and subsequent changes in Global Fund policies and practices relating to HIV and drug use programmes. It focuses on how future HIV and harm reduction programming will be affected by the Global Fund’s current funding crisis given the very low existing levels of funding for such programming. This issue has particular significance for Eastern European and Asian countries where HIV epidemics are largely shaped more...

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AIDS Alliance on May 09, 2012

Global Program Review: The Global Fund

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ieg.worldbankgroup.org –

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was founded in 2002 to mobilize large-scale donor resources for the specific purpose of reducing infections, illness and death caused by the three diseases. The Global Fund has since become the largest of the 120 global and regional partnership programs in which the World Bank is currently involved, disbursing more than $3 billion in grants to developing and transition economies in 2010.

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Moushumi Biswas on March 13, 2012

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