“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
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
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is a major financier of national HIV responses and a vital source of prevention investments. By 2015, the Global Fund supported 3.6 million pregnant women to receive ARV prophylaxis to prevent transmission to their unborn children and distributed 5.3 billion condoms.… Read more
This information note is an update of the alert prepared by ICASO in 2015 to provide advice to civil society and community groups on how to engage in grant-making activities once a funding request has been developed. Following the submission of a funding request to the Global Fund, there continues to be a critical role for communities and civil society to play.… Read more
The purpose of this information note is to support civil society and community groups to design and
include community systems strengthening interventions and community-based monitoring activities in funding requests during the 2017-2019 Global Fund funding cycle. This information will be of interest to community groups, key population networks, country coordination mechanism (CCM) members, ministries of health, disease program managers, and health service providers.… Read more
