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Jun
21
2010
11:00—12:30 PM
June 09, 2010
The concept of country ownership has become increasingly visible in donor policy and strategy, yet definitions vary and there is little clarity and great diversity in how this concept is articulated and practiced by donor and recipient countries. Health experts from Ethiopia, Mozambique, Uganda and ...
Jun
8
2010
12:00—2:00 PM
June 01, 2010
How can we stem the tide of the HIV epidemic? The impressive scale up of international spending on HIV treatment has led to significant declines in morbidity and mortality from HIV/AIDS. However, as these impressive gains have gone unmatched by corresponding decreases in the incidence of new cases...
May
25
2010
10:30—12:00 PM
May 17, 2010
The "Mukta" (meaning "Freedom") Project, as it is locally known, is an initiative of Pathfinder International, a partner of the Gates Foundation/Avahan Project in India. Pathfinder International works in 10 districts of Maharashtra state in India to reduce the prevalence of STIs and HIV/AIDS among ...
May
10
2010
10:30—12:00 PM
April 28, 2010
Billions of dollars have been allocated to fight HIV/AIDS in poor countries over the past decade, yet less than half of those requiring treatment receive it, and for every two people put on treatment, five more become newly infected. Economic pressures and competing global health priorities are forc...
January 15, 2010
Are the billions of dollars spent on HIV/AIDS in developing countries missing out on opportunities to strengthen national health systems? To find out, CGD’s HIV/AIDS Monitor asked researchers in three countries with high levels of donor AIDS spending -- Mozambique, Uganda, and Zambia -- to assess t...
January 15, 2010
Billions of dollars are flowing to developing countries to confront HIV/AIDS but relatively little is known yet about the effectiveness of this aid. CGD's HIV/AIDS Monitor initiative tracks the work of three major HIV/AIDS funders: PEPFAR, the Global Fund and the World Bank's Multi-Country AIDS Prog...
January 15, 2010
The 16th International AIDS Conference starting in Toronto this Sunday will attract some 24,000 delegates from 132 countries, celebrities and entertainers including The Blue Man Group, Bill Clinton, Bill and Melinda Gates, 3,000 journalists, and an army of researchers scheduled to present more than ...
Jul
1
2009
10:00—12:00 PM
June 18, 2009
Today in sub-Saharan Africa, 61 percent of all people infected with HIV are women, and women age 15-24 are the most vulnerable to infection. Women and girls are at greater risk of HIV infection in part due to power imbalances between women and men that limit the social and economic choices that wome...