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Focus on the whole community when treating HIV
Last month I attended an important pan-African meeting organised by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Zimbabwe. The consultation’s theme was “Optimizing HIV Treatment Access and Retention in Care: Linking community level interventions with health care delivery systems.” WHO, which is mandated to advise governments on different interventions, has realised that… Read more »
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Gendering HIV and AIDS
Last month VSO’s Rachael Stokes and Makena Mwobobia attended the 56th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Rachel’s comment on the session: “The underlying message appears to be that we simply cannot afford to wait” captures the spirit of our new position paper on Gender… Read more »
Fund the Fund – now!
Excuse me for sounding like a broken record regarding the Global Fund (Global Fund on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM))!
My updates from the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) dwelt on this issue and here is some more; it’s just that it is a serious issue, literally a matter… Read more »
Men who have sex with men often overlooked in Africa HIV and AIDS policies
Earlier this week I represented VSO at a conference about men who have sex with men and HIV in Africa. This was part of the annual ICASA (All-Africa AIDS Conference) pre-conference so had good attendance from important global decision makers. Very few international NGOs were present, and I was proud to demonstrate that… Read more »
More holistic measures for people living with HIV and AIDS
Today marks the 30th anniversary of World AIDS Day. It is therefore timely that VSO’s Regional AIDS Initiative of Southern Africa (RAISA) held its annual conference last week on ‘Social Protection and HIV and AIDS’.
Over 50 conference delegates (a mixture of RAISA partners, volunteers and staff members) heard from a range of… Read more »
Challenges of caregivers highlighted at UN High Level Meeting
On the last day of the UN’s High Level Meeting in New York, two different speakers at the caucus co-organised by Care Action Network and the UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development, made reference to VSO’s work without knowing of VSO’s direct involvement!
The first was Prof. Orago,… Read more »
