Venezuela was not eligible for the Global Fund funding because it was a high-income country with a low disease burden. However, the Global Fund Board made an exception and donated resources to support the people of Venezuela. With a modest and intelligent investment– and in partnership with civil society– the Global Fund is saving the lives of over 40.000 people living with HIV in Venezuela.… Read more
Venezuela no era elegible para recibir financiamiento del Fondo Mundial porque es un país de ingresos altos con una carga de enfermedades baja. Sin embargo, la Junta Directiva del Fondo Mundial hizo una excepción y donó recursos para apoyar al pueblo de Venezuela.… Read more
The term “combination prevention” was coined by the HIV response, which for the first-time compiles in a ‘box’ the preventive tools that are presented in three groups: behavioral, biomedical, and reduction of structural barriers. These, applied in comprehensive packages, have the potential to significantly reduce the transmission and hence the number of new HIV infections, to control the epidemic in the absence of a vaccine to prevent HIV or a cure.… Read more
El término “prevención combinada” fue acuñado por la respuesta al VIH, que por primera vez recopila en una caja de herramientas preventivas que se presentan ordenadas en tres grupos: comportamentales, biomédicas y de reducción de barreras estructurales. Estas, aplicadas en paquetes integrales, tienen el potencial de reducir significativamente la transición y por ende el número de nuevas infecciones del VIH, con el fin de controlar la epidemia en ausencia de una vacuna para prevenir el VIH o una cura.… Read more
AIDS Action Alert — Global AIDS Monitoring (GAM)
URGENT: The review and reporting process at country level has already started; Join now! Be involved! Be heard!
Prepared by the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) March 2020
In June 2016 UN Member States adopted the Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast-Track to Accelerate the Fight against HIV and to End the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016 Political Declaration).… Read more
