Each year, the NGO Delegation submits a report to the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) to bring the perspectives of affected communities from the grassroots level to the board. Broad input collected by the NGO Delegates from civil society informs the NGO report.
At the XIX International AIDS Conference on July 26th, the NGO Delegation officially launched the publication of the results from its 2011 Report to the UNAIDS Board. Delivered at the 29th meeting in December 2011, the report focuses on the importance of the legal environment to national HIV responses. For its findings, the NGO Delegation conducted a series of 27 focus groups, involving more than 240 participants from every region of the world. This is the published version of the report.
8 August 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
From the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, “Risks, Rights and Health” (note: this infographic does not include criminalization of non-disclosure). Click to enlarge.
In another update to events mentioned in the 2011 NGO Report entitled Voices from the Field: How Laws and Policies Affect HIV Responses, we had noted that prosecution for HIV non-disclosure was becoming a significant legal issue:
3 August 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
Windhoek, Namibia © The Advocacy Project
Namibia’s High Court has ruled that the country’s government sterilized without their informed consent three HIV positive women as they gave birth in public hospitals, although the judge rejected the link to their HIV status.
In 2008, the International Community of Women living with HIV and Namibia Women’s Health Network documented many cases of forced sterilization of HIV positive women. With the support of the Legal Assistance Centre and Southern Africa Litigation Centre, in 2010, three women brought their case to court and challenged that this procedure violated their rights to life, privacy and freedom from cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
26 July 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
At the XIX International AIDS Conference on July 26th, the NGO Delegation officially launched the publication of the results from its 2011 Report to the UNAIDS Board. Delivered at the 29th meeting in December 2011, the report focuses on the importance of the legal environment to national HIV responses. For its findings, the NGO Delegation conducted a series of 27 focus groups, involving more than 240 participants from every region of the world.
9 July 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
Today is the launch of the much anticipated Global Commission on HIV and the Law report on how law and human rights can transform the global AIDS response with evidence-informed solutions for protecting the health and human rights of people affected by HIV. Over the past year and a half, the NGO Delegation has been posting about and has been involved in the regional consultations that have provided evidence for the report’s research.
This year’s NGO Delegation annual report to the Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) addresses the worsening impact of reductions in funding for HIV on civil society, including people living with HIV and key populations. It is based on a review of evidence and case studies by constituents of the NGO Delegation. The report covers the realities of decreased bilateral and multi-lateral funding for and national investment in HIV and explores the impacts on civil society and its critical programmatic and advocacy contributions to responses to HIV. In its report, the NGO Delegation calls on UNAIDS to look at how decreased funding for HIV is impacting UNAIDS strategies’ and its ability to meet the goals of the 2011 Political Declaration.
25 June 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
Requests UNAIDS to propose ways forward and options to address the documented decreases in funding especially affecting developing countries and to support Member States’ and civil society’s capability to meet the goals laid out in the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS and the HIV-related Millennium Development Goals by 2015;
25 June 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
Requests UNAIDS, in coordination with Member States, to improve civil society capacity to advocate for efficient, culturally-sensitive and effective responses to HIV and AIDS in alignment with the 2011 Political Declaration and to build knowledge focused on HIV funding mobilization, and mobilising to address barriers to the AIDS response, especially in the field of prevention, treatment, care and support in particular those addressed in paragraph 71 of the 2011 Political Declaration;
25 June 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
Requests UNAIDS, in collaboration with Member States, to advocate that existing funding for civil society be continued and that mechanisms for civil society support and accountability be enhanced within the new Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria architecture including through the national Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Country Coordination Mechanisms;
25 June 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
Recognises the critical role that civil society organisations play in the HIV response;
25 June 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
Approves the new Programme Coordinating Board NGO: AMSHeR (The African Men for Sexual Health and Rights);
6 June 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
Today is the thematic oncombination prevention at the PCB. Thematic days are meant to offer a forum to discuss salient toipcs related to HIV; in the subsequent PCB meeting after a thematic, recommendations and actions are offered to UNAIDS and its Board from the day’s findings and conclusions.
24 April 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
Civil Society in the HIV Response: Urging UNAIDS Action in the HIV Funding Crisis
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29 March 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
The PCB noted the recommendations proposed by the NGO representatives as follows:
29 March 2012 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]
The PCB took note of the request of the World Bank for NGOs to monitor the Multicountry AIDS Project (MAP), in particular the emergency HIV/AIDS fund which channels resources specifically to community and NGO-based activities, and to report back to the Bank.
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