OF NOTE THIS WEEK

The Global Fund and the Islamic Development Bank agreed to jointly support activities to achieve the Millennium Development Goals -- specifically the goal of combatting HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases -- in IDB member countries in Africa, the East Mediterranean and Southeast Asia regions. The IDB represents the Global Fund’s first main development partner in the Islamic world.

NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE DONORS

• A new World Bank report analyzes the extent to which HIV/AIDS poses risks to economic development in South Asia

OTHER NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS

• A New Call to Defeat the AIDS Virus (SF Chronicle)
• Strengthening the Global Alliance on AIDS: Five Strategic Steps (Worldpress.org)
• Do or Dybul (The New Republic)
• Op-Ed: Continuing Leadership in World AIDS Fight (Boston Globe)
• Uganda Needs More Funding for HIV/AIDS Treatment (UgPulse)
• Uganda: Global Fund Wants Money Recovered (New Vision)