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Learnings from the UN High Level Meeting in New York
“I was abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (Northern Uganda) when I was a young girl. When I managed to escape and return home after two and a half years, it was discovered I was HIV positive. That time, there were no free ARVs [antiretroviral drugs] and being HIV positive was like a death… Read more »
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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 »
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 »
Breakthrough in HIV prevention
I was very happy to read today about an important study from the US National Institutes of Health. This shows that if an HIV-positive person adheres to an effective antiretroviral therapy regimen, the risk of transmitting the virus to their uninfected sexual partner can be reduced by 96%. Comments from Read more »
All protocol observed
“All protocol observed, ladies and gentlemen.” On 9-10 November most of us from the civil society organisation world waded into those unfamiliar waters of observing protocol! The occasion was VSO’s annual RAISA Conference in Pretoria, South Africa. The theme was “Governance and HIV and AIDS”.
The participants included more than 10 members of parliament (MPs)… Read more »
An M&E nerd, caregivers and HIV indicators
My name is Mike Podmore and I am an ‘M&E nerd’. There I said it. It has been a strange two-year road that has led my M&E (monitoring and evaluation) colleagues here at VSO to cheerfully bestow this dubious title upon me. What led me to this position you may ask?
It started… Read more »
