But first a little history ….
This will be the 22nd International AIDS Conference – and the second one to be held in Amsterdam.
The first, in 1992, had the theme A World United Against AIDS. It was organized at very short notice, in less than a year, following protests at the previous 1991 conference in Florence.… Read more
ICASO es un miembro permanente del Comité Coordinador de las Conferencias Internacionales sobre SIDA. Este Comité es el encargado de desarrollar el tema y el programa de las Conferencias Internacional, incluyendo AIDS2018, que se llevará a cabo en Amsterdam, Holanda entre el 23 y 27 de julio 2018. El tema de AIDS2018 es “Rompiendo las Barreras, Construyendo Puentes” para llamar la atención a la necesidad de enfoques basados en derechos a los asuntos relacionados con el tratamiento y prevención del VIH para así llegar más efectivamente a las poblaciones claves y vulnerables.… Read more
“Triple threat: Resurging epidemics, a broken health system, and global indifference to Venezuela’s crisis”
Venezuela is in the middle of an unprecedented, statemade, complex humanitarian emergency with severe and widespread social consequences. Its AIDS program, once lauded as a model, has collapsed, with chronic drug shortages and the lack of condoms or diagnostic tests putting thousands at risk of preventable diseases and death.… Read more
As part of the Global Fund’s Community, Rights and Gender Strategic Initiative, the Technical Assistance Program provides support to civil society and community organizations to meaningfully engage in Global Fund processes throughout the grant life-cycle, such as country dialogue, funding request development, grant-making, and grant implementation.
The Community, Rights and Gender Strategic Initiative was renewed this year for a second multi-year round. As part of the renewal, a competitive selection process was held to identify civil society and non-governmental technical assistance (TA) providers. The new group of 26 TA providers was recently announced by the Global Fund; many providers are continuing from the past round. ICASO is proud to be included in the group of providers (see complete list), and encourages our partners to make use of this important resource.
The program is currently open and accepting requests for technical assistance, which are made by submitting a completed form to crgta@theglobalfund.org.… Read more
The International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) developed this brief to provide the HIV community with current information and analysis of new and updated clinical data on the effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in preventing HIV transmission to sexual partners of people living with HIV.… Read more
