09/Jun/2011 - 15:17 - Hier mercredi 9 juin 2011, les Nations Unies ont agréé une série d’engagements internationaux en matière de lutte mondiale contre le sida. Parmi ceux-ci figure en particulier l’objectif de traiter 15 millions de malades du sida d’ici 2015, soit plus qu’un doublement par rapport aux 6,6 millions de malades aujourd’hui traités. AIDES et Coalition PLUS se félicitent de cet engagement onusien. « C’est un engagement historique, dont la dynamique va permettre à la communauté internationale de redoubler d’efforts, et de véritablement rattraper le retard pris sur cette pandémie hors de contrôle » déclare Emmanuel Trénado, Directeur Adjoint de AIDES. Il …

19/May/2010 - 20:20 - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is an international financing institution that invests the world’s money to save lives. To date, it has committed US$ 19.3 billion in 144 countries to support large-scale prevention, treatment and care programs against the three diseases.   Funding proposals submitted to the Global Fund are reviewed by a 43-member Technical Review Panel (TRP). The review takes place about once a year for two weeks, which current members have described as ‘a unique and memorable experience’.    Because proposals focus on the fight against the three diseases and related health systems strengthening, …

19/May/2010 - 20:11 - “As a HIV positive French man and being fortunate enough to have free medication, I support HIV positive people the world over, and I support the Robin tax. I also support life! This tax on foreign exchange transactions would allow us to raise enough money to pay for treatment for every HIV positive person in the world”. With the appropriate hat, at the 5th Francophone conference on HIV here in Casablanca, Vincent Pelletier, director of PLUS and managing director of AIDES, has just launched the campaign to support the Robin tax.