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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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And the winner is…
When the Caregivers Action Network (CAN) finally gets down to nominating a goodwill ambassador, it seems to me that Stephen O’Brien, the UK Minister for the Department for International Development, would be a good candidate. I say this because in an answer he gave on HIV/AIDS in the House of… Read more »
To celebrate or to be concerned at the High Level Meeting?
As one of the many NGO activists attending the UN High Level Meeting in New York, it was both with a sense of expectation and hope that I listened to the key speeches delivered at the opening plenary session today morning.
The upstairs auditorium of the Plenary Hall was packed to capacity by civil society… Read more »
AIDS conference
At the end of the AIDS conference, as a VSO participant I should reflect on how well our profile and our priority issues were addressed during the conference, and what should happen next. It has been an exciting event to be part of, and I know from our staff debrief meeting on Thursday that all of… Read more »
VSO staff moderates conference session
This post was written by: Ferdinando Almelda, programme manager, Shahana Hayat, Bangladesh country director and Kenneth Munkombwe, programme officer.
The conference has maintained its momentum from the first day with so many issues being discussed in various meeting rooms. Priority has been given by our team to look at care giving, being an issue that we… Read more »
