2008 World AIDS Campaign Newsletter

AIDS Report: Human rights key element to universal access goal
JULY 2008 VOLUME 02 | EDITION 02
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Universal Access Campaigner’s update is a quarterly campaigner’s newsletter on AIDS campaigning around the world.
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AIDS Report: Human rights key element to universal access goal
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World AIDS Day 2008: LEAD-EMPOWER-DELIVER
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Special Insert - Focus on: International AIDS Conference
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Key Events Update: UNGASS 2008, G8
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Universal Access Updates
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UNIVERSAL ACCESS
CAMPAIGNER’S
UPDATE
Released Tuesday, the Report on the global AIDS epidemic reveals positive strides in reducing rates of infection in key populations, whilst leaving no doubt that stronger long-term efforts, that include participation from those most affected, with human rights at their core, are needed to make substantive differences in tackling the pandemic.
“The protection and promotion of human rights has to be at the centre of our efforts in the response to AIDS,” states Prateek Suman Awasthi, chair of the Global Steering Committee, World AIDS Campaign. “The violation of human rights puts populations at greater risk of harm and the key to reducing vulnerabilities lies in the promotion and protection of these rights. The evidence shows that comprehensive, multi-sectoral, inclusive and rights-based approaches are more successful and bring us closer to the goal of universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support.”
New data released by UNAIDS shows a direct correlation between the presence of discriminatory laws criminalising marginalised populations, such as men who have sex with men and people who use drugs, and the absence of services for those populations. “The bottom line is that there are people in every area of society who are unable to get the information, treatment, and support they need to protect and care for themselves and others,” says Linda Hartke, coordinator of the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance.
The Global Report, issued by UNAIDS every two years, is one of the most comprehensive on the response to AIDS. The statistics show a decline in the number of new HIV infections in some countries. The decline seems to be attributable to recent significant increases in prevention and treatment coverage, particularly among populations most at risk. But there is consensus amongst UN and civil society organisations that a far stronger response is needed worldwide in order to turn the tide of the pandemic. Overall the number of people living with HIV is estimated at 33 million at the end of 2007.
“HIV infection is still far outstripping current efforts to put people on treatment,” says Mabel Bianco, president of FEIM and Coordinator of the International AIDS Women’s Caucus, noting that of the 2.7 million people newly infected with HIV in 2007, five people became infected for every two put on treatment. “What we need is bold leadership that invests in what works, such as comprehensive sex education for young people and targeted services for the most marginalised groups like sex workers, men who have sex with men, and people who use drugs.”
“This is not just about money, although it’s obvious we need a predictable stream of significantly more resources to ensure all those needing treatment receive it,” says Patricia Mugambi Ndegwa, Africa Director, East and Central Africa Office of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria. “This is about having the leadership, the commitment, the recognition of rights, and appropriate services that will make the money work.”
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demonstrate the importance of AIDS and show solidarity for the cause. In 2008, this underlining principle of solidarity and awareness remains the same.
We have only two years to go for “the goal of universal access to comprehensive prevention programmes, treatment, care and support by 2010.”
To achieve this goal, leadership and action is needed now. Governments must deliver on the promises they have made. Communities must encourage leadership of its members. Individuals must feel empowered to access treatment, to know their rights and take action against stigma and discrimination, and to know and use methods of prevention against receiving and transmitting HIV.
Now, more than ever is the time to lead – empower – deliver.
This year the World AIDS Campaign has available World AIDS Day toolkits that include three posters based on the “Lead-Empower-Deliver” theme as well as four postcards, including a special edition 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day postcard. To order your materials, please contact us at: worldaidsday@worldaidscampaign.org or to learn more or download materials, please visit www.worldaidscampaign.org.
If you received materials last year, we will be sending you packs again this year.
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Why is 2008 important?
2008 marks the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day. Since 1988, the face and response to AIDS has greatly changed. While many of these changes are positive, this anniversary offers us an opportunity to highlight how much more still needs to be done.
For example:
Leaders in most countries from around the world now acknowledge the threat of AIDS, and many have committed to do something about it. As of 2007, nearly all countries have national policies on HIV. However, despite these policies, most have not been fully implemented and many lack funding allocations.
While treatment for HIV and AIDS has improved and become more widespread since 1988, many still do not have access to it – in 2007 only 31% of those in low- to middle-income countries who need treatment received it.
Despite HIV awareness now reaching nearly all areas of the globe, infection rates are still happening 2.7 times faster than the increase in number of people receiving treatment.
While the number of countries protecting people living with HIV continue to increase, one third of countries still lack legal protections and stigma and discrimination continues to be a major threat to universal access.
More broadly, real action on HIV and AIDS and human rights remains lacking. Legal barriers to HIV services still exist for groups such as women, adolescents, sex workers, people who use drugs, and men having sex with men, and programmatic responses promoting HIV-related human rights have yet to be prioritised.
World AIDS Day began in 1988 when health ministers from around the world met and agreed on the concept of the day as an opportunity for all of us to come together to
World AIDS Day 2008
Leadership is the theme for World AIDS Day 2007 and 2008, promoted with the campaigning slogan, “Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise.”
Leadership encourages leaders at all levels to stop AIDS. Building on the 2006 theme of accountability, leadership highlights the discrepancy between the commitments that have been made to halt the spread of AIDS, and actions taken to follow them through. Leadership empowers everyone – individuals, organisations, governments – to lead in the response to AIDS.
In 2007, people around the world were encouraged to take the lead to stop AIDS. Campaigns took the shape of marches, leadership discussions, public awareness events and pledges from leaders. These events all helped to put leadership in the spotlight.
People have offered their leadership – now it is time to deliver. Promises must be kept, and people must feel empowered to act.
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UA Campaigner’s Update Special Insert
FOCUS ON: INTERNATIONAL AIDS CONFERENCE
MEXICO CITY
3 - 8 AUGUST 2008
3 – 8 August 2008 marks the 17th International AIDS Conference, held in Mexico City, Mexico. World AIDS Campaign and its partners will be working to make sure that key themes such as leadership, universal access and human rights are promoted at the conference through organised and supported activities and events.
During the conference World AIDS Campaign will host a Leadership Stand in the exhibition hall. The stand will promote the Stop AIDS Leadership Pledge, as well as the themes of leadership, universal access and human rights. People can come to the stand to make their written or video pledge or statement to stop AIDS, watch statements that have already been made, and learn more about leadership. The stand will be located at #459. Please come see us!
Below you will find a calendar that highlights some of the key events and activities that the World AIDS Campaign is involved in.
Young Positive People: Working with the Media
30 July: 800 – 1800
Sevilla Palace Hotel
It is often the case that young positive people do not have access to practical training or capacity building around media. This workshop will bring together a small group of young positive people to participate in media training to discuss and identify key media messages as positive young leaders as well as share tips on how to work with the media.
Youth Pre-Conference
31 July – 2 August 2008: 900 -1730
Centro Cultural Universitario Thatlelco
See box on page B for more detail
Ecumenical Pre-Conference
31 July – 2 August 2008: 900 – 1830
Hotel Gran Melia Reforma
More than 500 Christians from all over the world will participate in plenary sessions, skills building workshops and daily worship. The theme of the pre-conference is “Faith in Action Now!”
Living Positively Leadership Summit
31 July – 1 August 2008
Hotel Fiesta Americana Reforma
This two-day global summit will bring together people living with HIV from different constituencies and regions to develop an advocacy agenda for the international movement of people living with HIV, the summit will examine outcomes of a global pre-consultation around four issues: universal access to treatment, care and support; sexual and reproductive health and rights for PLHIV, positive prevention, and criminalisation of PLHIV.
Sex Work Pre Conference: Universal Action for sex work inclusion
31 July – 1 August 2008
900 – 1800
This pre-conference will prepare sex workers to optimise their participation in the International AIDS Conference, support sex workers that have specific participation in the related events, and prepare an advocacy agenda at the global and regional level, amongst other things.
MSM Pre Conference
1 – 2 August
1 Aug - 800 -1700
2 Aug - 800 -1400
Sheraton Maria Isabel
This pre-conference will focus on how insufficient global HIV research on MSM drives the dearth of HIV prevention, treatment and care resources targeting MSM needs, drawing connections between research, practice and policy.
Labour Pre Conference
2- 3 August
Trade Union of Commercial Airline Pilots
World AIDS Campaign Leadership Stand
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Leadership Strategy Forum
1 August 2008
1830 – 2030
Fiesta Americana Reforma
Co-convened by GNP+ and World AIDS Campaign, this forum will provide a critical opportunity for leaders from all pre-conferences to gather and strategise on leadership opportunities, challenges and commitments made in the pre-conferences.
Strategies for Change: Breaking Barriers to HIV Prevention,Treatment and Care for Women
2 August 2008
900 – 1730
Sheraton Maria Isabel
This symposium will feature a series of moderated discussions with HIV activists, women’s advocates and health experts on innovative empowerment, legal, economic and health-services strategies for a more “women friendly response to HIV.
It will also draw attention to efforts to meet the needs of a broad range of women.
1st International March Against Stigma, Discrimination and Homophobia
2 August 2008
1200 - 1700
Angel of Independence, Avenida Reforma
This march will bring international attention to the issue of stigma and discrimination associated with HIV, sexual identity and gender identity.
No Youth No Change
3 August 2008
1115 – 1315
Session Room 5
This event, hosted by The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands together with youth led organisations and partners, will highlight the importance of rights-based approach in the repose to AIDS and crucial role of young people.
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MEXICO YOUTH FORCE PRE-CONFERENCE
To promote and strengthen young delegates’ meaningful participation within AIDS 2008, the Mexico Youth Force is coordinating a three day Pre-Conference for approximately 250 young HIV and AIDS activists. The pre-conference will consist of informative and skills-building workshops around HIV and AIDS issues, ranging from scientific knowledge to effective political advocacy. Participants will also gain skills in research methodology, harm reduction and details on treatment. Participants will learn how to advocate to policymakers on issues relevant to young people and how to deliver the Youth Force’s advocacy messages at the conference and beyond.
The pre-conference has two main objectives. The first one is to provide technical information and capacity building on the political, scientific, economic and social context of HIV and AIDS to young people (ages 16 to 26) so they can effectively participate in the five tracks of the XVII International AIDS Conference. The second objective is to empower young people through information, advocacy, and relationship-building to be advocates for youth and for an end to HIV and AIDS at the main conference, in their home countries and internationally.
Challenges for Women and Girls and HIV/AIDS
3 August 2008
10 – 230
Session Room 8
This satellite meeting will bring together international women’ and youth and human rights networks to present on the main issues relating to women and girls.
Global Village Opening Ceremony
3 August 2008
1200 – 1300
Presenting AIDS Accountability International’s Country Rating Scorecard
3 Sunday 2008
1330 – 1530
Banamex SR 4
See “universal access updates” for more information
Are AIDS Governance Structures Accountable to Communities
3 August 2008
1330 – 1530
Session Room 3
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90-MINUTE LEADERSHIP ENCOUNTERS
During the International AIDS Conference, World AIDS Campaign and its partners will host 90-minute encounters between 3-5 key leaders from the constituencies of people living with HIV, women, faith, marginalised groups, youth, labour, media, business, parliamentarians and AIDS Ambassadors / Ministers.
The encounters will probe pressing issues of leadership within the AIDS response at this exciting and critical time, explore shared priorities and identify opportunities for cross-constituency collaboration on AIDS advocacy.
Each encounter will result in a report with clear action points, which will concretely identify opportunities for collaboration and areas for follow up. To ensure accountability World AIDS Campaign will monitor the implementation of the actions and compile report on the findings, to be launched on 1 December, 2008 and shared with all partners.
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INTERNATIONAL RALLY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS & HIV/AIDS: NOW MORE THAN EVER
The rally will feature keynote addresses by Mary Robinson (Executive Director of the Ethical Globalization Initiative and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and President of Ireland), Michel Kazatchkine (Global Fund Executive Director), and Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director, amongst others.
During the rally, a copy of the declaration HIV/AIDS and Human Rights: Now More than Ever, endorsed by over 500 organisations worldwide, will be presented to high-level officials. To sign on to the declaration now prior to the conference, please visit www.soros.org/endorsehumanrights
In addition to the march, there will be Human Rights Networking Zone at the Global village to bring together HIV and human rights organisations to maximise visibility of the human rights concerns of people living with and at high risk of HIV, and to catalyse action on HIV and human rights. The Networking Zone will be located in the conference’s Global Village in networking zone 421, right beside the entrance to the food court.
Youth Adult Partnership Initiative Opening
3 August 2008
1330 – 1530
Banamex level E2
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90-Minute Leadership Encounters
See box below for more information. Runs the entire conference
HIV+ Travel Restrictions: Ending legalized stigma and discrimination
4 August 2008
1300
Banamex SR 1, Media Center
Travel restrictions against people living with HIV exist in at least 67 countries in the world despite the lack of public health rationale or proof that lifting restrictions would have a negative economic impact. This press
ARE AIDS GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES ACCOUNTABLE TO COMMUNITIES?
The aim of this session is to identify good practice and lessons on how to improve accountability and representation of communities on national and international policy forums. For over a decade civil society has had a ‘place at the table’ of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board. The creation of the Global Fund brought a unique governance structure that moved beyond ‘a place at the table’ to ‘equal’ and full voting membership, influencing the development of similar representation on the board of UNITAID.
Similarly, in many countries civil society is represented on national policy making bodies such as the National AIDS Council, CCM, etc. This recognition of civil society to be at the table has been achieved after significant and considerable advocacy work. It is therefore critical that the voice of civil society and particularly marginalised populations are well represented at these forums. This increased role and responsibility of civil society within global and national governance of the AIDS response comes with greater demand for both accountability to, and consultation with constituencies at the local and regional levels. This symposium will include a panel of speakers from civil society representatives from national and global policy forums Speakers will critically assess their performance linked to the successes and failures to mobilise communities, share information and articulate key issues highlighted by the community at these forums.
conference will share the latest information on the status of travel restrictions against people living with HIV, personal experiences, and US and Brazilian governmental responses.
Women & Girls’ Rally and March
4 August 2008
1500-2000
Meet at the Women's Networking Zone in the Global Village (15:00); Depart Centro Banamex (15:30); March to Zocalo (17:00); Rally (18:00)
Addressing the Gap: Commitments, funding and youth engagement
5 August 2008
1430 – 1600
In the context of “Universal action now!” a diverse panel of adults and young people will explore unmet commitments and contrast these with examples and results of young people and adults working together for progress and accountability.
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World AIDS Campaign and STI AIDS Netherlands: Sex Work Programme
1300 – 1500
6 August 2008
The title of the programme is: What can you as leader do? A step ahead towards linking sex work in different constituencies and donors in a context where sex work is more and more criminlised through the anti-trafficking approach.
Achieving Universal Access for Young People
Wed, 6 August 2008
1830 -2030
Session Room 3 Banamex
Despite youth being deeply affected by HIV, they continue to be left out and sidelined from important policy processes, including the assessment of youth-related universal access targets, what has been accomplished and what is lacking. Many youth, as well as youth organizations in the HIV and AIDS field, lack specific knowledge on these targets and their relevance for young people. Through this satellite session, the Inter Agency Task Team on HIV and Young People (IATT/YP) in partnership with World AIDS Campaign, and other partners, aim to share information on these targets, provide space for their critical analysis, as well as share best practices and recommendations on young people's leadership and involvement towards achieving universal access for all.
Red Ribbon Award Ceremony and Dinner
6 August 2008
Reception: 19:30, Dinner: 20:00
The Red Ribbon Award, launched on World AIDS Day, honours and celebrates twenty-five outstanding community organisations, that demonstrate leadership and action in curtailing the spread and impact of HIV and AIDS. The winners were announced at UNGASS 2008 and a dinner will be hosted at the Mexico Conference to celebrate their win. In addition to the dinner and ceremony, 2008 Red Ribbon Award communities will create and host a Community Dialogue Space open to all
YOUTH PARTNERSHIP INITATIVE
The Mexico City Youth Partnership Initiative (YPI), implemented by the Mexico Youth Force and World AIDS Campaign, will run throughout the AIDS Conference. The YPI will pair youth leaders with established leaders of a wide-range of constituencies, in order for youth to develop practical leadership skills experientially, as well as for the constituencies to learn from youth leaders and develop partnerships with youth as a constituency. Through the two-way learning process, the YPI will promote mutual understanding, facilitate networking, and enable a transfer of knowledge and skills between participants.
This initiative is unique in that, rather than being a one-time encounter, participants will be linked prior to the meeting, and immediately after the conference they will have the opportunity to discuss ways in which they can continue to work together and build partnerships.
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conference attendees. Anchored by two representatives from each of the twenty-five 2008 Red Ribbon Award winning communities, the Community Dialogue Space will be dedicated to open and active discussions highlighting stories of grassroots victories, challenges communities face and opportunities to improve their response to the epidemic.
International Rally for Human Rights & HIV/AIDS: Now More than Ever.
Thursday, 7 August 2008
1315 - 1415
Entrance to Global Village
Please see box on page C for more.
Conference Closing Ceremony
Friday 8 August
1330 – 1500
Banamex SR1
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KEY EVENTS UPDATE
UNGASS 2008
At the High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, held in New York City from 10-11 June 2008 various civil society constituencies and regional caucuses came together to hold governments accountable to their commitments. Several regional caucuses had prepared advocacy strategies prior to the meeting, and a Progressive Youth Caucus was also held.
Many issues were addressed and raised throughout the High Level Meeting. The Civil Society Hearing, organised by the Civil Society Task Force in close consultation with broader civil society, integrated many issues under the common framework of “Action for Universal Access 2010: Myths and Realities”. While many different issues arose throughout the HLM, certain key messages include:
1. The commitment to universal access by 2010 must be strengthened: Civil society members expressed grave and urgent concerns surrounding the need to re-emphasise commitment to universal access by the year 2010. Several speakers noted that, whilst universal access can be linked to other processes, such as the MDGs, these other processes must not be used as mechanisms to in effect delay the benchmark which governments, UN agencies and civil society alike have committed to, that is, 2010.
2. HIV-related travel restrictions must be repealed: Many speakers addressed the injustice of HIV-related travel restrictions. There was a call from the Secretary General, the President of the General Assembly, and many Member States for governments to repeal all travel restrictions for people living with HIV. It was also noted that blanket waivers are not enough to address this issue.
3. There is a need to strengthen accountability mechanisms: Several speakers noted that many countries had failed to report the realities on the ground and approximately forty countries did not report at all. The need to address the discrepancies between the official annual country reports and the civil society reports, by strengthening accountability mechanisms at all levels, was highlighted. It was also noted that the lack of involvement of those communities most affected was leading to weaker accountability and also to inefficient service delivery. Several speakers also mentioned the role of stigma and discrimination in reducing accountability in concentrated epidemics.
The final statement from the General Secretary will be released in the upcoming days. Please check with
www.ua2010.org for more information and to find out more on what happened during the meeting in New York City.
The spring campaign of the Civil G8 group convened by World AIDS Campaign blossomed only to show signs of wilting in the summer phase of the campaign when reports surfaced that G8 leaders were poised to drop the universal access goal of 2010 from the Hokkaido Communiqué just two weeks short of the summit. World AIDS Campaign, with heavy assistance from the Global Union AIDS Programme, mounted a sign-on effort contributing to the firestorm of civil society criticism that forced summit leaders to reverse the attempt to walk away from their universal access promise.
Nearly 250 organisations from 60 countries joined the statement that was headlined with a call for universal access to remain a fixture on the G8 agenda, but also called on member states to honour their commitments with a “who pays what when” plan and to create a mechanism to track progress and set future G8 strategy on AIDS and AIDS related issues.
In the end, the G8 reaffirmed its commitment to the 2010 universal access goal. In a major victory, culminating several years of work largely spearheaded by World AIDS Campaign and the Global Unions AIDS Programme, the G8 created a follow-up mechanism on its global health commitments. The G8’s action earned a grade of “A-“ from the Global Health Committee of Japan’s G8 NGO Forum - a Civil G8 group affiliate - on the group’s Summit Outcome Report card. The report card, ranking overall summit outcomes with a “C-“ serve as a grim reminder that civil society advocacy is one of the few sure ways of ensuring even modest G8 accountability.
Over the spring and in the summer weeks leading to the Summit, Masaki Inabi, Chair of the Global Health Committee of G8 NGO Forum, maintained the front lines of the Civil G8 groups on the ground presence in Japan. The enormity of the task, usually appreciated only by those who have served as lead NGO’s at previous summits, was
Key Messages at the High Level Meeting
Meena Seshu speaking answering a question from a reporter during the civil society press conference on June 11, during the UN High Level Meeting on AIDS
Hokkaido G8 report card mixed: follow-up mechanism earns an “A-”
One of the most significant obstacles to responding effectively to the AIDS epidemic is inadequate accountability and leadership. To achieve more rapid progress in the global response to HIV and AIDS, governments must be held accountable for their promises and their performance.
In 2006, AIDS Accountability International (AAI) launched the Country Rating Initiative with the purpose of developing a rating tool that can help to evaluate country performance and progress in responding to the AIDS epidemic and hold governments accountable for their promises and performance on a regular basis.
In 2007 AAI developed a Country Rating Pilot. This model focused on rating different aspects of service delivery. Following an independent review of this proposal, feedback from members of AAI’s Country Rating Advisory Group and extensive consideration of other available ratings, indices and scorecards, AAI decided to adopt a more comprehensive scorecard approach, covering a range of elements in addition to service delivery.
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performed with precision and skill with Inabi and his team providing a steady flow of information and assistance in guiding other Civil G8 group members through the TICAD IV process, the Civil G8 dialogue, in work with the Takemi Study Group and the Japanese government, to ensure maximum participation for civil society organisations.
The eyes of G8 summit watchers are now shifting to Maddalena, Italy, where the 2009 summit—the G8’s 35th—will be held. But in the concluding months of Japan’s G8 Presidency and the hand over to Italy at the beginning of next year, World AIDS Campaign will continuine to seek opportunities to expand direct civil society interaction with the G8, particularly by ensuring that AIDS is featured prominently and that civil society is engaged in the work of the G8’s newly created follow-up mechanism.
To read more visit www.g8aidscampaign.org.
On 24 July, the US Congress voted to remove the HIV travel ban from its Immigration and Nationality Act. This vote came as part of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) legislation which will authorise $48 billion over the next five years for treatment and prevent AIDS , TB and malaria. Whilst passing of this bill authorises these funds, separate legislation is required in order to deliver the money.
Some 67 countries around the world have a variety of HIV-specific laws that restrict the entry, stay or residence of people living with HIV. Since 1987, the US has enforced a travel ban specifically on people with HIV. The US is one of only a dozen countries - including Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Libya and Russia - that ban travel and immigration for HIV-positive people.
Similar legislation was already passed in the US Senate, and the bill is expected to be approved by President Bush next week. The bipartisan effort to lift the ban was led by Democratic Senator John Kerry and Republican Senator Gordon Smith
The repeal of this ban represents a major hurdle in the elimination of the HIV travel ban is the US. Once the bill is approved by the President, it will be up to the US Department of Health and Human Services to review the policy and use its authority to take HIV off the list of “public health threats.”
Please visit http://www.ua2010.org/en/UA2010/Universal-Access/Travel-Restrictions for updates.
AIDS Accountability International’s Country Rating Initiative
AAI’s HIV/AIDS Country Scorecard
AIDS Accountability International’s scorecard aims to measure the adequacy of country responses to the AIDS epidemic, according to the commitments made by all United Nations Member States in the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS adopted by the UN General Assembly Special Session and subsequent 2006 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS.
UPCOMING EVENTS
2-4 September
High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness - Accra, Ghana
25 September
High Level Event on MDGs - New York City
27-30 October
Global Forum on Migration and Development(GFMD) - Manila
Travel Restrictions Update: US Congress votes to remove HIV travel ban
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The scorecard includes measurements of the key elements required for an effective national response to HIV and AIDS, relevant and adaptable for all countries and different epidemic types.
Each element of the scorecard then consists of a number of indicators selected to represent the element. These indicators were selected after reviewing existing indicators for measuring the areas covered by the elements and selecting the ones that best reflected what is required for an effective national response to HIV and AIDS, that were relevant and adaptable for all countries and different epidemic types.
The Development Process & Final Consultation
The development of the scorecard model is being lead by AAI’s scientific coordinator, Jaran Eriksen with support from the Country Scorecard Development Team. A first draft of the scorecard model was presented at AAI’s 1st Rating Workshop, in Stockholm on 12 – 13 May 2008. The feedback received at the workshop has been integrated into an updated version of the model, including preliminary country scores, and AAI is now completing a final round of consultation. This includes input from the Country Rating Advisory Group and input from the Satellite meeting AAI is hosting at the International AIDS Conference (see Special Insert for more information). The scorecard consultation process will end on 1 September 2008 and the feedback will be used to finalise the model. The updated model and
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