International News A Key Group in Global AIDS Therapy Halts New GrantsNovember 28, 2011 The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria announced Wednesday that it will make no new grants for the next two years due to the global economic downturn and the European financial crisis. The fund will continue supporting about 400 AIDS treatment and prevention programs working in more than 100 countries for now, but it will not subsidize new patients or service increases. The March 2012 grant application round, in which 90 countries were expected to submit funding requests, has now been canceled. In addition, China, Russia, Mexico, and Argentina were deemed wealthy enough to no longer be eligible for grants. "It was a very difficult and contentious decision," said Joanne Carter, head of AIDS and TB treatment lobby group Results, who attended the meeting as a stakeholder delegate. "It's a huge issue for countries, which see this next period of time as absolutely critical in terms of scale-up." Ironically, the cutback is concurrent with calls from experts to increase funding for proven interventions such as "treatment-as-prevention" and male circumcision to decrease the risk of female-to-male HIV transmission. Washington Post 11.24.2011; David Brown ![]() Nearly 50 Percent of People Who Are Eligible for Antiretroviral Therapy Now Have Access to Lifesaving Treatment This article was provided by CDC National Prevention Information Network. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.
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