OF NOTE THIS WEEK

A four-day scientific congress on AIDS vaccines kicked off Monday in Paris with global AIDS leaders, including Michel Kazatchkine and Peter Piot, pleading with donors to maintain support for efforts to combat the virus despite the global financial crisis, Agence France-Presse reports. Experts warned that retreat would imperil hard-won progress to provide drugs and develop a vaccine. Awareness that funding is dropping tempered excitement at the conference about recent encouraging vaccine trial results and new scientific developments, Times Live reports.

NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE DONORS

• The Global Fund co-organizes the Global Health Challenges event in Stockholm
• PEPFAR releases its September newsletter

OTHER NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS

• Full Results Show AIDS Vaccine Is of Modest Help (AP)
• Uganda Food Crisis Undermining Efforts to Fight HIV/AIDS (Guardian)
• FDA Approves 100th Antiretroviral for PEPFAR (Kaiser Family Foundation)
• Uganda: AIDS Activists Protest Anti-Gay Bill (IRIN/PlusNews)
• Rare 'Outliers' Drive Search for Cures to Disease (Wall St. Journal)
• Treating HIV Moms-to-Be Protects Baby (UPI)
• The Case Against the Case Against Circumcision (New York)

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.