El Comité Ejecutivo de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) incluyó en la agenda de su Sesión 162·∙, celebrada el 20 de junio de 2018, para consideración de sus miembros, el documento: Respuesta de la OPS para mantener una agenda eficaz de cooperación técnica en Venezuela y en los Estados miembros vecinos (1).… Read more
This ACTION ALERT aims to provide concrete guidance on key advocacy actions that that can be taken now.
Heads of State will gather in New York on 26 September 2018 at the United Nations General Assembly first-ever high-level meeting on tuberculosis (TB) to accelerate efforts to reach all affected people with prevention and care.… Read more
Central America’s first study to critically document the process of creating a community-based clinic for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for gay men has been selected to receive the 2018 Robert Carr Research Award.
The project, Expanding the Options: A case study of collective action to create a community-based pre-exposure prophylaxis clinic for MSM in Guatemala City, was a collaborative endeavor between Guatemala-based Colectivo Amigos contra el Sida (CAS) and Gillings School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in the United States.… Read more
In April 2007, at the 15th Board Meeting of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a decision was taken to encourage countries to include a Principal Recipient (PR) from both the government and non-government sectors in each disease proposal.… Read more
At the recent IAPAC conference in May 2018, where the conference theme was mirrored in the title of the conference “Controlling the HIV Epidemic”, the session topics covered a range of issues, including:
Setting the metrics for success – where the panel discussion focused upon the question of “are we measuring what matters”?… Read more
