OF NOTE THIS WEEK

The HIV/AIDS Monitor team will be presenting results from two studies at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna this July:

• Christina Droggitis will present, "AIDS donors and sexual and reproductive health: removing barriers to integrated service delivery in Mozambique, Uganda and Zambia" by Nandini Oomman, David Wendt, Christina Droggitis, Caesar Cheelo, Dirce Costa, and Freddie Ssengooba
  
  
• Kim Ashburn (ICRW) will present, "Strengthening Donor Efforts to Achieve Gender Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic by the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief; Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria; and the World Bank Multi-Country AIDS Program in Mozambique, Uganda and Zambia" by Kim Ashburn, Nandini Oomman, David Wendt, Steve Rosenzweig, Caesar Cheelo, Dirce Costa, and Freddie Ssengooba

Both posters will be presented on Monday July 19 from 12:30-2:30. We hope to see you there!

NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE DONORS

• The Global Fund signs new AIDS grants with Senegal
• UNAIDS welcomes creation of new UN body for women
• The Global Fund's Born HIV Free campaign releases a new film, "Baby in the sky"

OTHER NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS

• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The Unintended Consequences of Washington's HIV/AIDS Programs (Foreign Affairs) *Subscription required
• Report: Nearly 12 Percent of Mozambique Population is HIV/AIDS Positive (Voice of America)
• PEPFAR to continue ARV funding (New Vision)
• Key to prevent HIV in women: reduce gender-based violence (The Lancet)
• AIDS scientists call for a month of sex abstinence (The Guardian)
• Zambia: Parent's Fears Slowing Uptake of Paediatric AIDS Treatment (IPS)
• Study Finds Rate of HIV Progression Is Linked To Human and Virus Genetics (The AIDS Beacon)
• Global AIDS group 'very disappointed' in president, Congress (The Hill's Healthwatch)

RECENT CGD HEALTH POLICY BLOGS

• PEPFAR, Entitlements, and the Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy By Mead Over

HIV/AIDS MONITOR RECOMMENDATIONS AND POLICY IMPACT

• The HIV/AIDS Monitor has been tracking the policy changes among PEPFAR, the Global Fund and the World Bank MAP related to the recommendations that have come out of our research. Explore these changes using our interactive flash tool.