The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced Thursday that it will provide India with a $100 million grant to combat HIV/AIDS, the country’s The Mangalorean website reports (mangalorean.com, 12/21).
This new funding brings the charity’s total India award to $492 million since 2005. Since then, the Global Fund has helped provide antiretroviral treatment for 80,000 Indians living with HIV/AIDS. The additional resources will be used to fight stigma throughout India and to train health professionals to better understand and treat those living with the virus.
While funding has also been used to fight tuberculosis and malaria—treating 245,000 TB patients and providing 1.5 million insecticide-treated bed nets—The Mangalorean reports that 80 percent of the funding so far has been used for HIV/AIDS-related programming.
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Ayesha Lakhani, Mumbai, 2008-05-14 07:56:03
A new report released today by two United Nations agencies puts the number of people living with HIV at about 33.2 million, down from last year’s estimate of 39.5 million, attributing the decrease to more accurate data collection and analysis.
The new data show global HIV prevalence, or the percentage of people living with HIV, has leveled off and that the number of new infections has also fallen, thanks in part to global HIV programmes. In addition to the 33.2 million people estimated
Beth Benne, RN, is HIV negative, but
the virus has impacted her life. She currently supervises a biannual HIV/AIDS awareness week as
the director of the student health center at Pierce College, a
community commuter school in Woodland Hills, California.
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