On July 8, 2010 the UNAIDS Bureau met to discuss the outcomes of the 26th PCB including the continuation of the PCB Task Force on SIE follow-up related to all aspects of Governance and the draft agenda of the 27th PCB Meeting including the overview of the thematic segment. Evan Collins, North America NGO Delegate attended the meeting by teleconference on behalf of the NGO Delegates.
UNAIDS is currently undertaking a periodic review of the UNGASS indicators across prevention, treatment, care and support, and enabling environment. Click here for a short PowerPoint outlining the UNGASS review process by UNAIDS. You can also access additional information by viewing the Road map and next steps for 2010 and beyond.
Co-chaired by UNDP and ICASO, the enabling environment steering group has been asked to organize a process for the review of the UNGASS enabling environment indicators.
NAIROBI, 11 August 2010 (PLUSNEWS) – By night, Viviane Muasi, 25, is a sex worker in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, but when not canvassing for clients, she spends much of her time convincing other sex workers to test for HIV and use condoms.
The NGO Delegation to the UNAIDS Board is currently recruiting for 5 new Delegates. The UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) NGO Delegates represent the perspectives of civil society, including people living with HIV, within UNAIDS policies and programming.
The NGO Delegation to the UNAIDS PCB has vacancies for two-year terms beginning 1 January 2011 and ending 31 December 2012, for the following positions:
JOHANNESBURG, 6 August 2010 (PLUSNEWS) – After months of non-payment, lay counsellors vital to government’s ambitious target of testing 15 million South Africans for HIV by April 2011, are threatening to walk out of voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) clinics.
The NGO Delegation to the UNAIDS Board is currently recruiting for 5 new Delegates and has extended the application submission deadline by 2 weeks to the 16th of August, 2010.
The NGO Delegation to the UNAIDS PCB has vacancies for two-year terms beginning 1 January 2011 and ending 31 December 2012, for the following positions:
Toronto – The World AIDS Campaign (WAC) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) delivered a letter to PM Stephen Harper ahead of the G8/G20 summit highlighting the failure of the G8 to live up to its foreign aid promises and demanding a new costed, time bound plan to deliver universal access to HIV treatment, prevention, care and support.
The letter and accompanying petitions were delivered to PM Harper as the host of this year’s G8 summit, calling upon him to show leadership in ensuring that earlier promises to combat the global epidemic are not abandoned or watered down in the face of the financial crisis.
“The G8 committed to achieving ‘as close as possible’ to universal access to HIV treatment by the end of 2010 at the 2005 Gleneagles summit; that commitment is still far from being met. More than 9 million still need access to antiretroviral drugs, dwarfing the 4 million people currently in treatment” said Paul Moist, CUPE National President. “33 million people are living with HIV today and nearly 3 million people are newly infected each year.” He added.
Early signs indicate that the failure to reach the target of universal access will not be discussed at this year’s summit. UK newspaper The Guardian reported on 4 June that France and Italy in particular are a long way from meeting their development commitments. A leaked draft communiqué makes no mention of the 2005 development commitments, likely as a result of their lobbying efforts.
WAC and CUPE’s letter is supported by 10,000 individuals and more than 80 organizations playing a key role in the AIDS response. Both CUPE and WAC oversaw the gathering of signatures, as part of their contribution to a global G8 campaign on universal access, which also made contact with Canadian embassies in 42 countries calling on PM Harper and the G8 summit to develop a new plan for meeting universal access goals before the 2015 MDG review.
The signatories of the petition will now be enlisted to join future actions for the building of public support for this purpose, especially through country-level implementation of the G8’s universal access goals.
Marcel van Soest, Executive Director of World AIDS Campaign said that the current global economic climate makes the actions by CUPE and WAC vital. “2010 is critical to remind leaders that they can not afford to back track on HIV – promises must be kept now.”
NAIROBI, 17 June 2010 (PLUSNEWS) – The 2010 FIFA World Cup is underway in South Africa and HIV/AIDS campaigners are taking advantage of the international focus on Africa to raise awareness about HIV. IRIN/PlusNews lists some of the campaigns running during the month-long tournament from 11 June to 11 July.
The 26th Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) Meeting, taking place between June 22-24, 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland includes agenda items on the NGO Delegation annual report, Ensuring non-discrimination in responses to HIV, Reducing HIV transmission among men who have sex with men and transgender people, Gender-sensitivity of AIDS responses and several others. Each of the agenda items refer to a board document or oral report back given at the PCB Meeting. The current documents made available by UNAIDS are below. You can continue to check this space for additional PCB documentation.
NAIROBI, 14 June 2010 (PLUSNEWS) – Kenya has set aside an unprecedented 900 million shillings (US$11.25 million) for the first time in its annual budget to purchase life-prolonging antiretroviral medication; AIDS activists have welcomed the move but say more needs to be invested.
DURBAN, 11 June 2010 (PLUSNEWS) – Too many tuberculosis patients are not receiving counselling about the link between TB and HIV, according to new research.
The 26th Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) Meeting, taking place between June 22-24, 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland includes agenda items on the NGO Delegation annual report, Ensuring non-discrimination in responses to HIV, Reducing HIV transmission among men who have sex with men and transgender people, Gender-sensitivity of AIDS responses and several others. Each of the agenda items refer to a board document or oral report back given at the PCB Meeting. The current documents made available by UNAIDS are below. You can continue to check this space for additional PCB documentation.
The 26th Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) Meeting, taking place between June 22-24, 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland includes agenda items on the NGO Delegation annual report, Ensuring non-discrimination in responses to HIV, Reducing HIV transmission among men who have sex with men and transgender people, Gender-sensitivity of AIDS responses and several others. Each of the agenda items refer to a board document or oral report back given at the PCB Meeting. The current documents made available by UNAIDS are below. You can continue to check this space for additional PCB documentation.
The 26th Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) Meeting, taking place between June 22-24, 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland includes agenda items on the NGO Delegation annual report, Ensuring non-discrimination in responses to HIV, Reducing HIV transmission among men who have sex with men and transgender people, Gender-sensitivity of AIDS responses and several others. Each of the agenda items refer to a board document or oral report back given at the PCB Meeting. The current documents made available by UNAIDS are below. You can continue to check this space for additional PCB documentation.
MANZINI, 11 May 2010 (PLUSNEWS) – Grandmothers from all over Africa have joined hands with grandmothers in Canada to call for greater support and recognition of their role in caring for grandchildren orphaned by AIDS.
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