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Nov
13
2020
9:00—10:30 AM ET
November 06, 2020
In 2009 and as part of the Paris agreement, donor countries committed to mobilize $100bn per year to developing countries to finance climate by 2020. The definition and measurement of that commitment has been a subject of ongoing debate with questions about the baseline, what counts as “new and addi...
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...
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...
Apr
20
2009
3:00—4:30 PM
April 09, 2009
Please join us for a discussion with Dr. Alan Whiteside, where he will examine the origins of AIDS exceptionalism and how it has helped and hindered our response to the epidemic. Whiteside will ask if exceptionalism is still a useful concept in light of our current knowledge about the epidemic, the ...
Aug
6
2008
6:30—8:30 PM
July 09, 2008
Abstract: Health systems in Mozambique, Uganda and Zambia--as in other African countries--face major challenges that have hampered the provision of health services for decades. But in recent years they have received renewed attention, as large sums of AIDS money flow into the countries from global d...
Mar
6
2008
10:00—12:00 PM
February 26, 2008
The Center for Global Development invites you to a presentation by Dr. Suniti Solomon on the demand-side barriers to the scale up of HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention and care programs in India, with a focus on the issues of stigma and discrimination. Stigma and discrimination have been identified as m...