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ABSTRACT Africa’s health and finance ministers met in Ethiopia to develop strategies to boost national health spending, ahead of a global push for meaningful efforts for better domestic financing for health across the developing world tied to the Global Fund’s replenishment meeting in Washington in December.
ABSTRACT Moldova was one of the six countries included in the UNAIDS study of government financing of civil society organizations. This article provides a summary of what the study said about Moldova, and reaction from two civil society representatives.
ABSTRACT Nigeria is watching as President Goodluck Jonathan considers whether to sign a groundbreaking anti-discrimination bill that would impose harsh punishment on those who would erect barriers to access to services for the country's 3.1 million people living with HIV.
ABSTRACT In Morocco, a country of more than 30 million people, government and civil society are working together to find more than 20,000 people who are thought to be HIV+ but do not know their status. Reaching them, then treating them, is the key to preventing the spread of the disease into the general population.
ABSTRACT Bosnia and Herzegovina will from December 2015 become ineligible for Global Fund financing, presenting a risk to a number of programs that the government has said it may be incapable of finding budgetary resources for. This could have an impact on currently low sero-prevalence rates nationwide, particularly within certain vulnerable populations such as the migrant Roma who live in poverty in informal settlements around the country.
ABSTRACT The current political crisis in Ukraine could compromise a number of Global Fund-supported harm reduction activities in the annexed region of Crimea. Finding a solution will require a strong partnership between NGOs, government and the Global Fund.
ABSTRACT The Global Fund and UNAIDS have expressed concern over a new law in Nigeria imposing harsh penalties on people who engage in or support same-sex activities, and have asked the government to reconsider in order to ensure access to essential HIV services for LGBT people.
ABSTRACT A Georgia-based NGO has launched an online petition it hopes will attract regional support for a greater push by governments to fill the anticipated vacuum that will be left once the Global Fund no longer commits significant financial support to a majority of EECA countries.
ABSTRACT New studies published in the latest Journal of the International AIDS Society reveal the impact that stigma and marginalization within HIV outreach programming is having on sexual minorities in sub-Saharan Africa, including men who have sex with men.
ABSTRACT Africa’s health and finance ministers met in Ethiopia to develop strategies to boost national health spending, ahead of a global push for meaningful efforts for better domestic financing for health across the developing world tied to the Global Fund’s replenishment meeting in Washington in December.
