Flashback: February 2025 ACB Consultation on Safeguarding Health in Uncertain Times

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Safeguarding Health in Uncertain Times: ACB’s Africa-Wide Strategy Dialogue Date: 24 February 2025Format: Virtual ConsultationParticipants: 115 health leaders from 20 African countries Introduction As global health funding faces major uncertainties, over 100 representatives from ministries of health, Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs) and technical partners across Africa convened for a high-level virtual consultation hosted by the…

Charting the Path Forward: Reflecting on The Future of Global Health Initiatives at the Wilton Park Dialogue

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Over the past few decades, Global Health Initiatives (GHIs) have made significant contributions to remarkable advancements in safeguarding lives and enhancing the overall well-being of people worldwide. Their achievements include substantial progress in combating specific diseases such as polio, malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS, as well as expanding the reach of targeted healthcare interventions like vaccination…

Building Bonds to Overcome HIV/AIDS

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In the 1990s, the disclosure of an HIV positive status was very often followed by a break in social and family bonds. The dreadful images surrounding the virus led to stigma, marginalization and discrimination of people living with HIV. While these people have gained greater acceptance in recent years, certain stigmatizing and discriminatory representations, perceptions…

A new HIV variant emerges

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A new HIV variant, more virulent and contagious, has emerged. This variant, known as VB, causes an early onset of opportunistic diseases, however It could not spread owing to the effectiveness of prevention and ARV treatment programs implemented in the Netherlands where it is circulating.  A new variant of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that…

“Unequal access to income and opportunity not only creates unfair, distorted and unhappy societies, it literally kills people.”

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The fight against HIV, TB and malaria is very often focused on an exclusively hygienic, therapeutic or biomedical approach. This paper does not question the interest or the relevance of such an approach, but it suggests that we should resolutely broaden the scope of this fight to the borders of social inequalities. Actually, health as…

A commentary of The Global Fund Technical Evaluation Reference Group on primary HIV prevention efforts

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Globally, new HIV infections declined by 44% between 2000 and 2021, missing the global target for a 75% reduction in new infections by 2020. The Global Fund Technical Evaluation Reference Group (TERG) published a thematic review on primary HIV prevention, in May 2021 to weigh in on discussions for the 2023-28 Global Fund Strategy. This…