AIDS-Free World - The Agenda

Home

The Agenda

In this section, AIDS-Free World will deal with the full range of pressing issues that we were created to address. For starters, you’ll find sections on disability, the law, prevention and funding. As the website grows, we will discuss other critical issues in this section. Please return to The Agenda to read about our advocacy in such areas as universal treatment, research, payment for caregivers, testing, epidemiology, disaggregated data, the Global Fund…

Disability and HIV/AIDS

Children's access to education is directly linked to the fight against HIV We know that children with disabilities are often denied access to the most basic primary education. Read more...

AIDS and the law

Beyond TRIPS:The role of non-state actors and access to essential medicines In this paper, Noah Novogrodsky argues that NGOs need to rethink the way they promote access to medicines. Rather than serving solely as advis... Read more...

Prevention

Failing Women and Children The world's policymakers have been cooking the statistical books on HIV services to mothers and babies. AIDS-Free World's co-directors Stephen Lewis... Read more...

Funding for AIDS

Recession, broken promises posing health disaster: AIDS experts If wealthy nations break their promises, the world is headed for horrific health consequences. Read more...

Dead wrong

TB and AIDS

X-treme Neglect Advisory Board member Winstone Zulu survived tuberculosis, but his four brothers did not. In this essay he points out, in the most personal terms, t... Read more...

Sexual rights and sexual violence

Homophobic Ugandan Bill Demonizes People with HIV November 24, 2009 (Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) - In a speech to the Commonwealth People’s Forum, Stephen Lewis says Uganda's ant... Read more...

SPEAKING UP
A regular column reacting to HIV news and developments. From AIDS-Free World’s Director of Communications Sohaila Abdulali:
THE DEBATES
Every approach to HIV/AIDS has pros and cons, but most are thrashed out behind closed doors. In The Debates, introduced here with a few initial topics, we’ll move those discussions into the public domain.
- A UN agency for women
- Questioning the statistics

THE AGENDA
AIDS-Free World takes on the most critical issues affecting populations from Africa to the Caribbean, Asia and beyond. The Agenda items listed so far offer a sampling of topics we will probe in this section.
UN WOMEN'S AGENCY
People want and deserve to be kept informed about the newly approved UN women's agency, now under construction. Follow AIDS-Free World's written exchanges with the UN Deputy Secretary-General, and check this spot for news about the global search for the woman who will lead the new agency, and other developments as they unfold.