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Year: <span>2016</span>

There’s No Time To Backtrack The Fast-Track To Ending AIDS By 2030
December 12, 2016

This blog first appeared in the Huffington Post Canada here .
By Robin Montgomery, Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development (ICAD)

In October 2015, the renewed UNAIDS Strategy was approved amidst cheers from the global community at the 37th meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB). The renewed strategy is an ambitious but viable, comprehensive road map charting the end of AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 and is couched within the Global Goals for Sustainable Development (SDGs) .

Just twelve months later, the conversation at this week’s 39th PCB has taken a much more somber tone as delegates grapple with the funding crisis that has rocked … Read more →

 

How Do We Make A Better World For Children Affected By HIV/AIDS?
December 9, 2016

This blog first appeared on the Huffington Post Canada here .

By Nicci Stein

When you think about HIV prevention and children, the first thing that comes to mind is perinatal/vertical transmission — a baby acquiring HIV in utero, through the birth process or through breastfeeding. For some reason, the catchy acronym “PMTCT” (Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission) stubbornly stays in our lexicon even though it is archaic and places the burden of guilt for transmission onto women living with HIV. But that’s another topic for another day.

How HIV affects children and how the impacts can be addressed and mitigated involves so much more than ensuring babies born … Read more →

 

We Must Embrace Inclusion For An AIDS-Free 2030
December 8, 2016

This blog first appeared on the Huffington Post Canada here .

By Maddison Van Balkom and Emily Major-Girard

Events in Lesotho typically begin with a hymn or a song, followed by a prayer. At a recent sexual education workshop for deaf students hosted by Help Lesotho, the first morning’s hymn started with grins from ear to ear and one small difference: the hymn was silent.

The training room — despite being filled by 63 eager students — was dramatically quieter than the usual cheers and singing that accompany the start of a program. The melody of the hymn was beautifully carried through sign language; a deeply moving and somewhat overwhelming … Read more →

 

Spread Too Thin To End AIDS: Narrowing Global Focus And Setting Priorities
December 8, 2016

This blog first appeared in the Huffington Post Canada here . 

By Leah Morris

Internationally the formal commitment has been made to end AIDS by 2030. This will require hitting the ambitious 90-90-90 targets, meaning that 90 per cent of all people living with HIV will know their HIV status, 90 per cent of all people with diagnosed HIV infection will receive sustained antiretroviral therapy, and 90 per cent of all people receiving antiretroviral therapy will have viral suppression. However, there is a chasm to be crossed between the formal signature of a country acknowledging that these targets ought to be met, and the day-to-day financial, political, and social effort … Read more →

 

I Want To Believe The End Of AIDS Is Nigh – My Life Depends On It
December 6, 2016

This blog first appeared in the Huffington Post Canada here .

By Muluba Habanyama

Thirty-seven years old. In 2030, I will be 37 years old. In 2030, the AIDS epidemic will be eliminated. I hope. According to the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or “Global Goals” that’s the plan. I pray to God they’re right. I can wait till 37, but if I’m being honest, I expect to be waiting much past that.

No, I’m not a cynic or a negative Nancy. Ask those closest to me and they’ll tell you I’m quite optimistic in many ways. However, over this harsh past year, and the 22 before, I’ve become used … Read more →

 

 

Where is the urgency?: Inching towards a business as usual approach to Ending AIDS by 2030? ICAD makes an NGO Statement
December 6, 2016

39th UNAIDS PCB Meeting Joint Statement by CPPN, ICAD and ICASO on the Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework (UBRAF) Dear Secretariat and member states: This is a joint statement by the Canadian Positive People Network, the Interagency Coalition on AIDS Development, and ICASO. As a people living with HIV network and organizations which focus on intersectoral partnerships and to enhance global policies on HIV issues, we feel that being accountable to the AIDS response and being accountable all the people living with HIV and key populations affected by HIV mean member states must actively fund and help create a coordinated and sustainable global AIDS response. As a person living … Read more →

 

What Could The Future Of Women’s HIV Prevention Look Like?
December 5, 2016

This blog first appeared in the Huffington Post Canada here .

By Dr. Zeda F. Rosenberg

As we consider how to reach the end of HIV/AIDS, we must recognize that doing so will require giving women new ways to protect themselves against the virus.

Women are especially vulnerable to HIV because a combination of biology and gender inequities renders them more susceptible to infection than men. In sub-Saharan Africa, HIV is as at least two times more prevalent in young women ages 15 to 24 than in young men, partly because women lack effective and discreet tools they can use on their own to protect themselves. … Read more →

 

HIV, TB, And The Battle For Global Health
December 2, 2016

This blog first appeared on the Huffington Post Canada here .

By Shelley Garnham, TB Officer, RESULTS Canada

It’s not a bird, and it’s not a plane. Despite the similarities, it isn’t another formulaic superhero, headlining a blockbuster movie coming to a theatre near you, and it hasn’t taken in billions of dollars in box office receipts worldwide.

Though it should. It’s a real-life battle between good and evil, not unlike many that we’ve seen before. We love watching heroes take on villains and come out on top — seeing humanity (or our hyper-capable proxies) work together to defeat evil on behalf of our planet. But resemble as it might … Read more →

 

Opening Remarks – Launch of Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week and World AIDS Day 2016
December 1, 2016

  Robin Montgomery, Executive Director, Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development (ICAD) Ottawa, ON Quel plaisir d’être ici ce matin, en présence d’un tel groupe d’amis et de nouveaux visages. Merci beaucoup d’être avec nous, en ce matin de décembre. C’est un grand plaisir de vous accueillir à notre événement, pour la Journée mondiale du sida et la Semaine de sensibilisation au sida chez les Autochtones. It is our great pleasure to welcome you to today’s event in celebration of World AIDS Day and the launch of Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week. What is World AIDS Day? It’s a time when we pause to celebrate community, our diversity and our shared … Read more →

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