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Global Plan to Stop TB 2016-2020: First regional consultation in Addis Ababa shows great consensus and endorsement of the current draft

The regional consultations are built on the back of the Global Fund Partnership Forum, which ensures building synergies and enabling cross-fertilization between the Global Fund Strategy 2017-2021 and the new Global Plan to Stop TB 2016-2020. 7 May 2015 – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – The first of four regional consultations on the Global Plan to...

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Diseases of Poverty: Shrinking the Map on Malaria and other Neglected Tropical Diseases

Diseases of Poverty: Shrinking the Map on Malaria and other Neglected Tropical Diseases

Photo: Pan American Health Organisation, Centro Nacional Para el Control de las Enfermedades Tropicales (CENCET) (Flickr) Dr. Mirta Roses Periago, Director Emeritus PAHO/WHO, is a LAC Board Member of the Global Fund and Special Envoy for the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases. Silvio Martinelli is the head of access to funding at the Global...

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El Foro de Asociados centra su atención en la estrategia

Comunicado de prensa – 07 de mayo de 2015 ADDIS ABEBA (Etiopía) – Diversos asociados en el ámbito de la salud mundial se han reunido hoy para participar en una serie de consultas sobre la estrategia que el Fondo Mundial habrá de poner en práctica para acelerar el final del sida, la tuberculosis y la...

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Un neuquino dio un gran paso para frenar el VIH

Fuente: Clarín.com La lucha contra el virus que tienen 35 millones de personas en el mundo. Es un virólogo que lidera un equipo de expertos en Canadá. Encontró la forma de “exponer” al virus del sida para que las células del sistema inmunitario maten a las infectadas. Todos los contagiados con el virus del sida...

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Support for extension of transitional period and waivers of least developed countries on TRIPs agreement

5th May 2015 – Communities Delegation Statement on Support for Extension of Transitional Period and Waivers of Least Developed Countries on TRIPS Agreement. The Communities living with HIV and Tuberculosis and affected by malaria Delegation (Communities Delegation) on the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) expresses its full...

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Gavi and the Global Fund Welcome Malaria Vaccine Trial Results

Press release – 24 April 2015 GENEVA – Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria welcome the results of a large-scale trial of a malaria vaccine candidate in sub-Saharan Africa. The results suggest a malaria vaccine could eventually have a role alongside mosquito nets, indoor spraying, prompt diagnostic...

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Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board Meeting opens in Paris

Press release Ministers of Health and representatives from South Africa, France, Brazil, India and Mozambique attend along with heads of agencies from UNAIDS, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB & Malaira and UNITAID 14 April 2015 – Paris, France – The 26th Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board meeting hosted by France at the French...