News and Highlights from the Donors

News and Highlights from the Donors

• A World Bank video examines the need for supporting local groups to combat HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa
• A World Bank feature describes the targeted, data-driven strategies aimed at making AIDS money work
• Global Fund Executive Director Michel Kazatchkine delivers a closing speech at the XVII International AIDS Conference
• The World Bank approves a $35 million loan for HIV/AIDS prevention and control in Barbados
• Friends of the Global Fund Latin America is launched to advocate programs supported by the Fund in the region
• The Global Fund signs round 7 grants for Kosovo and Rwanda
• The Global Fund says it has received funding requests totaling the highest amount ever
• A new World Bank report emphasizes the need for a localized, evidence-informed response to HIV/AIDS in Africa
• PEPFAR releases a fact sheet about its five-year reauthorization
• The World Bank and African Ministries of Education collaborate on a film about teachers’ experiences of living with HIV
• PEPFAR issues an update on the planning of its supported Public Health Evaluation studies
• U.S. President Bush signs PEPFAR reauthorization
• The World Bank releases a full schedule of its sponsored events at the XVII International AIDS Conference
• The World Bank organizes the 3rd Latin America & the Caribbean Technical Meeting on STD, HIV/AIDS and Disability
• The Global Fund approves $21 million for a regional malaria program in the Pacific
• U.S. President Bush thanks Congress for reauthorizing PEPFAR
• Global Fund Executive Director Michel Kazatchkine visits Papua New Guinea to meet with government officials and implementation partners
• A Global Fund release welcomes the G8 leaders' reiterated support for universal HIV/AIDS treatment
• The World Bank approves a $50 million loan to Botswana to strengthen national HIV/AIDS prevention efforts
• PEPFAR provides support to help prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in Russia
• PEPFAR announces its latest treatment results: ARV treatment for 1.73 million people worldwide
• The World Bank and UNAIDS release a 2008-09 business plan for the AIDS Strategy & Action Plan
• PEPFAR issues updated fact sheets on funding, preventing mother-to-child transmission, adult treatment and program overview
• The Global Fund, the Indonesian Ministry of Finance and the German Embassy launch a debt-swap initiative to increase domestic spending on health in Indonesia by €25 million
• PEPFAR-supported programs prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in Russia
• The World Bank publishes a plenary talk from the HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting
• PEPFAR releases its June newsletter
• The U.S. expresses its commitment to effective partnerships in the fight against HIV/AIDS at the U.N. General Assembly High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS
• Ambassador Mark Dybul offers remarks on the global response to HIV and TB at the HIV-TB Global Leaders' Forum Panel
• The World Bank issues a June progress report on the AIDS Strategy & Action Plan
• The 2008 HIV/AIDS Implementers’ Meeting, co-sponsored by the Global Fund, PEPFAR, and the World Bank, concludes in Uganda
• The Kaiser Family Foundation posts webcasts of the HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting
• The Global Fund announces that its programs have provided ARV treatment to 1.75 million people this year
• Ambassador Mark Dybul gives opening remarks at the 2008 HIV/AIDS Implementers’ Meeting, which kicks off in Uganda
• The Global Fund launches an additional funding round in 2008
• The Global Fund and the World Bank co-sponsor the HIV/AIDS Global Leaders Forum on June 9
• The World Bank approves a grant for health sector support and multisectoral AIDS financing in Burkina Faso
• Japan contributes $560 million to the Global Fund
• Global Fund Executive Director Michel Kazatchkine meets with Slovenian President Türk
• The Global Fund signs new HIV/AIDS grants for Honduras and Yemen
• PEPFAR announces that Ugandan President Museveni will open the 2008 HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting in Kampala
• The World Bank's Development Marketplace issues $1 million in grants for programs to reduce HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination in South Asia
• A new World Bank handbook provides guidance and tools for planning for, measuring and achieving HIV results
• The World Bank and UNAIDS launch a database of HIV prevention consultants
• The World Bank unveils its new four-year strategy to combat HIV/AIDS in Africa
• A new UNAIDS progress report summarizes data on efforts against HIV/AIDS in 147 countries
• The World Bank approves $65 million for social protection, early childhood development and HIV/AIDS in Jamaica
• The Global Fund signs a new HIV/AIDS grant for Kyrgyzstan
• The Global Fund co-hosts the largest-ever AIDS conference in Eastern Europe on Central Asia to review epidemic status and changing challenges in the response
• The World Bank provides grants for grassroots HIV/AIDS projects in Swaziland
• The Global Fund issues a statement on Cameroon from its executive director
• The Global Fund disburses $500 million to its supported programs in Latin America and the Caribbean
• The World Bank posts its Global HIV/AIDS Program of Action
• PEPFAR provides support to a Nigerian woman with HIV who helps others with the disease
• The Global Fund signs a new HIV/AIDS grant for FYR Macedonia
• The Global Fund invites all stakeholders to e-Forum 2008 to dialogue and debate on the Fund’s performance
• The World Bank consolidates its Global HIV/AIDS Program report series
• The World Bank hosts a videoconference in Timor-Leste on how the arts can promote awareness and discussions about HIV/AIDS
• PEPFAR releases its April newsletter
• The Global Fund opens its online discussion forum in advance of its 2008 Partnership Forum
• The Global Fund receives a $500,000 donation from Kuwait
• The World Bank announces the 2008 conference of the International Harm Reduction Association
• The World Bank's 2008 Global Monitoring Report says most countries will fall short on the Millenium Development Goals
• The Global Fund, PEPFAR and the World Bank unveil a Web site for the 2008 HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting
• U.S. President Bush calls on Congress to reauthorize PEPFAR
• Lesotho becomes the fourth country to receive funds from the Global Fund's (RED) campaign
• Ireland signs a new three-year partnership with the Global Fund
• The World Bank's International AIDS Vaccine Initiative gives its first Innovation Fund award to VaxDesign, which hopes to use a simulated human immune system to test candidate AIDS vaccines
• The World Bank and UNAIDS issue a progress report on the AIDS Strategy and Action Plan
• The World Bank’s Africa region announces a renewed commitment to tuberculosis control through the Stop TB Partnership
• Ambassador Mark Dybul makes a statement on World TB Day
• PEPFAR releases its March newsletter
• U.S. Senator Richard Lugar makes comments on the PEPFAR reauthorization bill before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• The World Bank and the government of India agree to action to stamp out fraud and corruption in health projects
• PEPFAR, the Global Fund and the World Bank sponsor the 2008 HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting to highlight progress and lessons learned in HIV programming
• Ambassador Mark Dybul testifies before the House Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
• The Global Fund opens its eighth funding round
• The World Bank and UNAIDS issue their first global report on business coalitions to combat HIV/AIDS
• The Global Fund receives a $184 million contribution from Japan
• Ambassador Mark Dybul testifies on PEPFAR before the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs
• U.S. President Bush discusses his trip to Africa at the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation and during a presidential press conference
• The World Bank examines the shortage of health workers in rural areas of Africa
• The World Bank announces its 2008 stakeholder consultation on HIV/AIDS for the Africa region
• PEPFAR releases its February newsletter
• U.S. President Bush and Tanzanian President Kikwete hold a roundtable on PEPFAR
• First Lady Laura Bush participates in an online discussion and Ambassador Mark Dybul gives a press briefing during the president's trip to Africa
• (RED) art auction raises more than $40 million for the Global Fund
• The Global Fund signs a new HIV/AIDS grant for Egypt
• U.S. President and Mrs. Bush discuss U.S. Africa policy, including PEPFAR, and their upcoming trip to Africa
• U.S. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley says President Bush will discuss PEPFAR's program to combat HIV/AIDS in Tanzania during his trip
• PEPFAR and Warner Brothers release a trailer for a documentary about PEPFAR's impact in Haiti, Rwanda and Tanzania
• PEPFAR releases its fourth annual report to the U.S. Congress
• The World Bank-administered Africa Catalytic Growth Fund finances the first regional HIV/AIDS program in the Horn of Africa
• The World Bank broadens its engagement to fight HIV/AIDS in Swaziland
• The World Bank and UNAIDS help Honduras improve its national strategic planning on HIV/AIDS
• U.S. President Bush calls on Congress to reauthorize PEPFAR during his State of the Union address
• World Bank President Robert Zoellick will travel to Mozambique to meet with officials and visit Bank-supported projects
• Chevron commits $30 million to the Global Fund as the inaugural partner in the Corporate Champions Program
• PEPFAR provides support for an HIV/AIDS benefit concert in Zambia
• PEPFAR releases its January newsletter
• The World Bank and the government of India join forces to stamp out corruption in health sector projects
• The World Bank and UNAIDS finalize a new two-year business plan for the AIDS Strategy and Action Plan
• PEPFAR releases an updated issue briefing on HIV counseling and testing
• PEPFAR launches the next generation of program reporting indicators
• PEPFAR, UNAIDS and the WHO convene a conference of global health leaders to tackle HIV/AIDS and strengthen health systems
• Conference participants release new guidelines to address health worker shortage
• PEPFAR gets set to launch the next generation of program reporting indicators
• PEPFAR releases a fact sheet on the use of its funding in combatting HIV/AIDS
• The Global Fund posts a letter from the National Aids Control Commission of Rwanda to the Los Angeles Times
• PEPFAR announces 14 grants for second round of the New Partners Initiative
• The Global Fund’s Board of Directors approves modifications in the funding policy for Country Coordinating Mechanisms
• The Global Fund responds to recent criticism by the Los Angeles Times
• The Global Fund, PEPFAR, the World Bank and others announce a call for abstracts for the 2008 HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting
• The World Bank's International Finance Corporation and partners mobilize up to $1 billion for private health care in Africa
• An assessment of the World Bank's Population and AIDS Control Project in Chad shows a successful local response
• The Global Fund renews its HIV/AIDS grant to India worth more than $100 million
• The Global Fund receives $500,000 for the establishment of "Friends" Middle East
• Ambassador Mark Dybul discusses PEPFAR with State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack
• Italy makes the first 2008 contribution to the Global Fund
• The World Bank launches the 2008 Development Marketplace to tackle HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination in South Asia
• The World Bank and the Washington D.C. mayor’s office join forces to fight AIDS
• Ambassador Mark Dybul testifies before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
• PEPFAR releases its December newsletter
• PEPFAR commemorates World AIDS Day with statements by President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice
• PEPFAR announces results for AIDS treatment worldwide
• Global Fund investments deliver AIDS treatment to 1.4 million people
• A World Bank-funded program empowers sex workers in Zambia to become legitimate entrepreneurs
• Ambassador Mark Dybul participates in an online "Ask the White House" discussion for World AIDS Day
• The Global Fund signs a new HIV/AIDS grant for Zimbabwe
• The World Bank emphasizes a tailored, multi-layered approach in Africa AIDS fight
• The World Bank highlights its research and analyzes trends in HIV/AIDS data
• The World Bank and PEPFAR prepare for 2007 World AIDS Day
• PEPFAR supports the launch of the Project for HIV/AIDS Strategic Technical Assistance in Cambodia
• A World Bank staffer helps take AIDS prevention to African schoolchildren
• Ambassador Mark Dybul releases a statement on the UNAIDS/WHO 2007 AIDS Epidemic Update
• The Global Fund welcomes new figures on the global AIDS pandemic
• PEPFAR facilitates the sharing of developments in HIV/AIDS and TB with Botswana health districts
• PEPFAR releases its November newsletter
• The board of the Global Fund holds its 16th meeting in Kunming, China
• The board of the Global Fund approves $1.1 billion in new grants
• The World Bank announces activities to commemorate World AIDS Week during November 26-29
• PEPFAR and BD collaborate to strengthen laboratory systems in fight against HIV/AIDS and TB
• The Global Fund signs a new HIV/AIDS grant for Bhutan
• Ambassador Mark Dybul gives a briefing on the impact of generic antiretrovirals on HIV/AIDS treatment programs and interviews with PBS about PEPFAR's impacts, challenges and future
• The World Bank and PEPFAR publish an HIV/AIDS strategic plan for Uganda for 2007-2011
• The World Bank issues a handbook on planning and managing for HIV/AIDS results
• PEPFAR opens a renovated HIV research laboratory in Botswana
• PEPFAR launches a new HIV prevention initiative for young women
• The Global Fund signs an HIV/AIDS grant for Tanzania
• Ambassador Mark Dybul makes a statement before the U.S. Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations
• The Global Fund signs an HIV/AIDS grant for South Africa
• The Global Fund launches My Global Fund, a Web site that includes an online forum, blogs and other discussions on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria
• PEPFAR, USAID, the Millennium Challenge Corporation and Microsoft announce initiative to promote international development
• PEPFAR releases its October newsletter
• The World Bank participates in meeting on improving the governance of district and community HIV/AIDS responses in Tanzania
• The World Bank holds inter-country consultations on HIV/AIDS in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on October 16-17
• PEPFAR provides support for Ethiopian TV show aimed at OVCs
• The Global Fund signs an HIV/AIDS grant for Tanzania
• PEPFAR releases issue brief on prevention support for people living with HIV/AIDS
• The Global Fund posts an overview of its debt conversion initiative
• The World Bank publishes Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Policy and Law Reform
• PEPFAR launches new database of public-private partnerships
• Donor countries provide $9.7 billion to the Global Fund
• The Global Fund launches a debt conversion initiative to fund health programs
• The World Bank posts a newsletter on Decentralizing HIV Monitoring and Evaluation in Africa
• The U.S. government's Global Fund contribution exceeds $2.5 billion
• PEPFAR assists Malawi's Ministry of Health with its second annual HIV Counseling and Testing Week
• The Global Fund announces that (RED) campaign contributions have exceeded $45 million
• The Global Fund posts A Strategy for the Global Fund: Accelerating the Effort to Save Lives
• PEPFAR publishes its September newsletter
• The Global Fund signs an HIV/AIDS grant for Mozambique
• PEPFAR assists Tanzania in launching a national HIV/AIDS testing campaign
• Germany will host the Second Meeting of the Global Fund's Second Voluntary Replenishment in Berlin, 26-28 September
• The Global Fund welcomes the launch of the International Health Partnership by U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown
• PEPFAR holds training to prevent medical transmission of HIV in Kenya
• The World Bank releases a case study on an HIV/AIDS wellness program in Kenya
• PEPFAR helps remove stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS with children's book launch in Zambia
• The World Bank's IFC helps small businesses fight HIV/AIDS in Botswana, South Africa and Zambia
• PEPFAR provides grant for a computer lab in Guyana that promotes HIV/AIDS education
• The Global Fund signs HIV/AIDS grants for Burkina Faso and Peru
• The Washington Times publishes an op-ed by U.S. Global AIDS Ambassador Mark Dybul and FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach about PEPFAR's disbursal of high-quality, low-cost antiretrovirals in developing countries
• PEPFAR releases issue briefs on HIV and TB, Blood Safety, International Cooperation and more
• PEPFAR provides technical support to Global Fund grants
• U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia Donald Yamamoto discusses PEPFAR at the Third International Muslim Leaders' Consultation on HIV/AIDS
• The Global Fund signs an HIV/AIDS grant for Ukraine
• The World Bank participates in the 8th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific
• PEPFAR helps roll out HIV/AIDS treatment to rural areas in Botswana
• The Global Fund lifts the suspension of grants to Chad
• PEPFAR announces FDA approval of two new ARV drugs
• A World Bank article discusses Sri Lanka's low HIV/AIDS prevalence
• PEPFAR publishes its August newsletter
• A State Department fact sheet notes PEPFAR's contributions to international development
• A PEPFAR spotlight examines the role of public-private partnerships in combatting HIV/AIDS
• The World Bank approves a $10 million grant to support Afghanistan's efforts to control HIV/AIDS
• The World Bank's Africa Region releases its HIV/AIDS Agenda for Action 2007-2011
• The World Bank distributes a report on the implementation and results of the Uganda HIV/AIDS Control Project
• A new report examines President Bush's five-year reauthorization of PEPFAR
• Ambassador Mark Dybul visits PEPFAR-supported projects in Côte d'Ivoire
• The World Bank and the government of Jamaica plan a new HIV/AIDS initiative
• The Global Fund signs an HIV/AIDS grant for the West Africa Corridor Program
• Presentations posted from the 2007 HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting, cosponsored by the Global Fund, PEPFAR and the World Bank
• First Lady Laura Bush discusses PEPFAR's mission at the National Press Club Newsmakers Luncheon
• The World Bank allocates additional funds for health development in Tanzania
• President Bush discusses PEPFAR's initiatives in Latin America
• PEPFAR publishes its July newsletter
• The Global Fund signs HIV/AIDS grants for Sierra Leone, Tunisia and Maldives
• A letter from Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) to Mark Dybul cites a new impact evaluation that says that PEPFAR’s emphasis on abstinence is failing to meet the needs of sexually active youth
• In an interview, First Lady Laura Bush discusses PEPFAR's programs in Africa
• PEPFAR releases issue briefs on Gender, Prevention of Sexual Transmission
• The World Bank approves an $80 million HIV/AIDS program for Kenya
• The Global Fund welcomes new contributions from Spain and Thailand
• The Global Fund applauds new India HIV estimates released by the India National AIDS Control Organization
• PEPFAR marks the close of the 2007 HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting in Rwanda
• The World Bank launches a report on the results of the Africa Multi-Country AIDS Program, 2000-2006
• PEPFAR releases issue briefs for June
• PEPFAR announces the opening of the 2007 HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting in Rwanda
• The Global Fund releases a report on the participation of civil society
• The World Bank helps fight AIDS in Uganda at the grassroots level through the Multi-Country AIDS Program
• The Global Fund applauds the G8’s re-commitment to universal access and expects firm commitments
• PEPFAR and the Global Fund announce their collaboration to treat people living with HIV/AIDS
• The Global Fund welcomes the European Commission's multi-year contribution ahead of the G8 meeting
• The White House announces President Bush five-year, $30 billion plan for PEPFAR
• The Global Fund welcomes and applauds the United States' proposed $30 billion for AIDS
• The Global Fund announced that its funding has provided ARV treatment to more than one million people living with HIV
• The Global Fund signs new AIDS, TB grants with Morocco
• The World Bank approved a $50 million credit for the HIV/AIDS Program Development Project in Nigeria
• The World Bank's new health strategy focuses on strengthening health systems in developing countries
• PEPFAR releases new issue briefs on Health Management Information Systems, Surveillance and Surveys, and Palliative Care
• The Global Fund signed a new malaria grant to Namibia
• U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report assessing the Global Fund's Model for Making Funding Decisions (pdf)
• The Global Fund released "An Evolving Partnership", profiling its collaboration with civil society partners
• The 15th Board Meeting of the Global Fund took place April 25-27 in Geneva, Switzerland. At the meeting the Board announced their election results for a new Chair and Vice-Chair.
• President Bush announced a new parthnership between the U.S. Government and the Global Business Coalition on AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis.
• The Global Fund announced that they will be seeking $6-8 billion of support per year by 2010.
• Global Fund Executive Director Dr. Michel Kazatchkine recognizes the accopmlishments of Jack Valenti.
• The Global Fund announced that on Africa Malaria Day--April 25th--the Roll Back Malaria Partners set new ambitious financial targets for 19 African countries fighting malaria. Visit the Global Fund's special Africa Malaria Day page.
• The Global Fund signed three new grants to Djibouti
• PEPFAR announced that they secured low prices on lifesaving medicines for developing countries in a recent press release
• The recent testimony of Ambassador Mark Dybul before the House Foreign Affairs Committee
• President Bush proclaimed April 25 Malaria Awareness Day
• The Global Fund recently announced that Cameroon's 2005 grants have successfully gone through the Phase 2 process.
• PEPFAR celebrates World TB Day and releases an updated TB/HIV issue brief.
• The PEPFAR-supported fight against HIV/AIDS in Kenya is highlighted in PEPFAR's March 2007 newsletter. Past editions of the PEPFAR Newsletter are also available.
• Mark Dybul's remarks on the WHO's findings regarding male circumsicion
• On Wednesday, March 21, Ambassador Dybul testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health at a hearing on the global threat of drug-resistant TB.
• The Global Fund announced in a press release today that over 1.1 million people have been saved through Fund supported TB programs.
• PEPFAR recently released their Third Annual Report to Congress
• Ambassador Mark Dybul testified before the House Committee on Appropriations, and the Senate Sub-Committee on State and Foreign Operations
• State Dept. Press Release: 2008 US AIDS Relief Budget Request Tops Original Commitment
• The Global Fund's Voluntary Replenishment Mechanism Meeting was held in Oslo, Norway on 6-7 March, 2007
• Background information of the Global Fund's Partners in Impact Forum, March 12-14 2007