African Council of AIDS Service Organizations

Aids-Africa Africa: Fighting Aids with phones

Mobile phones may become a key weapon in the war against HIV and Aids in Africa, allowing counsellors to reach greater numbers of people, says the chief of the United Nation's AIDS agency.

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Nigeria: Gombe Agency on Fight against HIV/Aids Hailed

Gombe — GOMBE state Ministry of Health says with the recent conversion of the Gombe State Action Committee Against (GOSACA) into a full fledged agency, it will boost HIV response through improved coordination, effective mobilization and utilization of r

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Rwanda: National Condom Distribution Doubles - CNLS

Kigali — The Executive Secretary of the National Centre for the fight against HIV (CNLS), revealed that the distribution of condoms around the country has increased by 54.8 percent in the last three months.

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Zimbabwe: HIV Infection - Positive Benefits of Male Circumcision

Harare — I must confess, at the outset, my initial reservations about the enthusiastic, and sometimes irrational, adoption of adult male circumcision as a strategy against the worldwide threat, especially the threat in our country, Zimbabwe, posed by HI

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Civil Society Reviewers Needed for the 2010 Red Ribbon Award Online Review

Thank you so much to all of you for helping us to promote the 2010 Red Ribbon Award. The application period closed a few days ago and thanks to all of your efforts we have received more than 700 applications from all over the world! This is a clear record and represents a significant increase over 2008.

It's thrilling to see the amount of interest in this initiative grow over time and we hope it is a testament to the important impact the award has had on many grassroots organizations in the last few years.

Monitoring the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS

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Country Progress reports to be submitted to UNAIDS by March 31, 2010

In March 2009, UNAIDS launched the Guidelines on Construction of Core Indicators for 2010 Reporting. The Guidelines provide a guide for monitoring progress made towards the goals set on the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS (DoC). The Guidelines also provide guidance for preparing the country progress reports to be submitted to UNAIDS by March 31, 2010.

Please find the document here

"Equality Means Business" – UNIFEM and UN Global Compact event

On 9 March 2010, the UN Global Compact Office and UNIFEM will co-host a historic event in honour of International Women's Day to launch the Women's Empowerment Principles: Equality Means Business.

The Principles are the product of a collaboration between UNIFEM and the UN Global Compact, informed by an international multi-stakeholder consultation conducted since March 2009. The Principles provide a set of considerations to help business focus on key elements integral to advancing gender equality.

For further details please visit the website.

ICASA 2011 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)

ICASA

The Society for AIDS in Africa was established in Kinshasa in October 1990 during the 5th International Conference on AIDS and Associated Cancers in Africa, a precursor to the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA).

The formation of SAA, which was assisted by the World Health Organization (W.H.O), put paid to the practice of holding International Conference on AIDS in Africa outside the African continent. At the same time, it empowered Africans to address and respond to the challenges posed by HIV/AIDS in the continent.

The Society envisions an HIV free Africa with capacity to confront all HIV attending consequences and related diseases (such as Tuberculosis and Malaria), and it promotes positive environment and research on HIV and related diseases. The Society for AIDS in Africa is governed through an Executive Council drawn from South, North, East, West and Central Africa. SAA partners and collaborates with Africaso, Society for Women Against AIDS in Africa (SWAA), NAP+, the Network of Youths in Africa, and it enjoys the support of the UN-System, as well as various International organizations, including the International AIDS Society (IAS).

Click here to download the brochure.

Click here to go to the ICASA-2011 website.

Mapping of Donor Trends and Partners' Activities

As part of the Free Space Process (see www.icssupport.org for details), to which ICASO is a partner, the International Civil Society Support is commissioning a set of consultancies to undertake a “Mapping of Donor Trends and Partners’ Activities”.

This is essential aimed at helping us look at the future opportunities for collaboration and a means to understand for all of us future opportunities (together or individually) of funding opportunities and or advocacy that is needed (in line with our discussions at the network meeting).