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

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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.

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Moushumi Biswas on May 22, 2012

Health, Education, Social Protection News & Notes 11/2012

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A bi-weekly newsletter supported by GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit). The newsletter is between 25 and 35 pages in Adobe PDF format - usually not larger than 650 kB and deals with summaries of books, online publications, electronic resources, web pages, training opportunities, conferences and computer and internet tips & tricks. You can download and search back issues (2005 - 2012) of this newsletter at: more...

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Dieter Neuvians on May 19, 2012

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

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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

Rollout of voluntary medical male circumcision communication in Kenya

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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

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

Universal Access for Women and Girls

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Accelerating Access to HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support for Female Sex Workers and Wives of Migrant Men.As part of the global initiative Universal Access for Women and Girls (UA Now!) to improve and achieve universal access to HIV prevention and treatment services for women, ICRW implemented a research study to expand the evidence base on access to services for two key populations in India: female sex workers and wives of migrant men in Pune, Maharashtra, and Ganjam, Orissa, more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 17, 2012

Writing terms of reference (TOR) for an evaluation: A how-to guide

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The terms of reference (ToR) document defines all aspects of how a consultant or a team will conduct an evaluation. It defines the objectives and the scope of the evaluation, outlines the responsibilities of the consultant or team, and provides a clear description of the resources available to conduct the study. Developing an accurate and well-specified ToR is a critical step in managing a high-quality evaluation. The evaluation ToR document serves as the basis for a contractual arrangement more...

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D C on March 15, 2012

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

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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

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

How underfunding the Global Fund project impacts on the HIV responses

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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

Allowing Men to Care

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In South Africa, men are increasingly rejecting widespread stereotypes of manhood by stepping forward to challenge gender roles that compromise their well-being and the health of their partners and their families. This case study documents the Sonke Gender Justice Network’s Fatherhood project, which was designed to reduce HIV transmission and address related problems, such as gender-based violence, women’s overwhelming burden of care, and the preponderance of children in need of care and more...

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Moushumi Biswas on March 15, 2012

High level meeting on AIDS concludes: "Innovations key to halting mother-to-child transmission of HIV"

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HIV experts, business leaders, aid agencies, and ambassadors of 22 priority countries home to 90% of new HIV infections among children, today agreed that the surest way to halt the spread of the deadly virus from mother to child was through strategic innovations.The High Level Meeting on Innovation for Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission (EMTCT) of HIV comes in the lead up to the XIX International AIDS conference scheduled for July this year, and against the backdrop of dramatic more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 22, 2012

Strategy recommendations for collaborating with a new generation of leaders for the AIDS response

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This document provides a set of recommendations for strategic actions that the UNAIDS Secretariat should undertake to collaborate effectively with a new generation of young leaders to ensure that the ambitious goals set by world leaders for the AIDS response are reached by 2015. The recommendations were compiled by an independent, youth-led Drafting Committee, in dialogue with the UNAIDS Secretariat, on behalf of more than 5000 young people who took part in CrowdOutAIDS. This document more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 29, 2012

Achieving an AIDS-free generation for gay men and other MSM

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The HIV/AIDS pandemic continues to have a devastating, though often invisible, impact on gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) around the world. In lowand middle-income countries, MSM are 19 times more likely to be living with HIV than people in the general population and they represent an estimated 10 percent of new infections each year. Yet for decades the epidemic among MSM was offi cially ignored by governments, donors, and whole societies.Though there has been a gradual shift more...

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D C on March 29, 2012

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