OF NOTE THIS WEEK
The U.S. this week offered Uganda $246 million in new aid to help improve its health and agricultural systems, mostly as part of a massive social economic recovery program in northern Uganda. More than $170 million will go toward health and education to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, improve maternal and child health, and increase access to family planning and reproductive health services, according to Reuters.
Earlier this month, Ambassador Eric Goosby traveled to East Africa and met government and civil society representatives to discuss partnerships to combat HIV/AIDS. He highlighted the need for new strategies as infections move from younger people to 30-35 year-old women and men in their 40s, saying, "We need to respond by reviving prevention campaigns."
Also of interest this week, HIV/AIDS Monitor Director, Nandini Oomman and CGD Vice President, Ruth Levine, collaborated on the article Global HIV/AIDS Funding and Health Systems: Searching for the Win-Win highlighted in the supplement to the November issue of JAIDS.
NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE DONORS
- Global Fund Executive Director Michel Kazatchkine speaks to France's TV5 about governments' funding priorities and research for an AIDS vaccine
- PEPFAR publishes its October newsletter
OTHER NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS
- African States Urged to Curb Child AIDS Infections (AFP)
- Experts Want African Aid Funds Channelled Away from HIV (Guardian)
- Gateses Lobby U.S. for Global Health Funds (Wash. Post)
- Huge Unmet Need for Contraceptives in Uganda (Guardian)
- Analysis: Male Circumcision and Risk of HIV Infection in Women (Lancet)
- Are the Wilderness Years Over for AIDSVaccine Research? (AFP)
RECENT CGD HEALTH POLICY BLOGS
- Getting Down to Business in Global Health OR The Brain in Spain Works Mainly on Supply Chains (I think we’ve got it!) By Ruth Levine
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.