29 June 2017 — Geneva, Switzerland — ICASO’s Executive Director, Mary Ann Torres, representing the organization at the 40th meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board, made an intervention during the thematic segment, entitled “HIV Prevention 2020: A Global Partnership for Delivery.” Mary Ann’s remarks, which were made during the panel “What is required for prevention scale-up?,” centered on the underachievement of prevention spending against UNAIDS-defined targets, specifically that one quarter of all money spent in the AIDS response be invested in prevention programs. She used the recent report from ICASO and EANNASO, “A Quarter for Prevention?” to illustrate her concerns. The full text of her intervention follows.… Read more
ICASO and the Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF) have jointly prepared an alert to provide an update to Key population and Civil society advocates who have been or are planning to be involved with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS TB and Malaria as an implementer, advocate, or member of a Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM).… Read more
This desk review by EANNASO systematically measures and assesses the inclusion of civil society priorities in Global Fund concept notes. Eight county concept notes were examined: Kenya, Malawi, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zanzibar and Zimbabwe. The concept notes were measured against the Civil Society Priorities Charters published by AIDS Accountability International.… Read more
Regional Concept Note Development in the Global Fund’s (New) Funding Model: Observations from the first round of regional concept notes
Various consortia around the world were engaged in developing regional
concept notes through 2014 into 2015 for submission in January 2015
to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund).… Read more
