Research & Publications: HIV & AIDS research

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Primary concern: why primary healthcare is key to tackling HIV and AIDS

With only a year to go until 2010, the rate of progress towards universal access to HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support needs to be stepped up. ActionAid’s new report Primary concern concludes that primary health care is key to tackling HIV and AIDS and reaching the universal access targets.

By Emily Alldis
27/05/2009 1016.96 KB pdf

Walking the talk HIV and AIDS Report

The report argues that governments and international donors too often ignore the vital steps needed to turn the tide for women in the fight against HIV and Aids.

By Nick Corby; Carmen Sepulveda-Zelaya; Nina O'Farrel; Mike Podmore
29/11/2007 1.74 MB pdf

ActionAid G8 funding plan

This briefing looks at how the total funding need for HIV and AIDS can be met in full from all available sources and in particular at the substantial role donor governments and the G8 in particular, must play.

By ActionAid
16/05/2007 90.91 KB pdf

Final Universal Access report April 07

This report highlights some of the barriers to universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care by 2010 and calls on governments, organisations and individuals alike to take action to make universal access a reality.

By ActionAid
10/05/2007 4.44 MB pdf

Delivering the 2010 target: Financing universal access to HIV and AIDS treatment

The G8’s commitment to achieve universal access to HIV and AIDS treatment is destined to fail unless the UK and other donors bridge the $8.1 billion funding gulf that currently exists between what is needed and what is actually spent on HIV and AIDS. This report calls in particular for Gordon Brown to push for international agreement on a funding plan at the G8 meetings in 2007.

By ActionAid
01/10/2006 392.08 KB pdf

What will it take?

While ActionAid International and other civil society organisations call for meaningful action, specific targets and timelines from the UN High-Level Meeting on HIV and AIDS, governments reveal that their geo-political and ideological agendas are more important to them than dealing with the HIV crisis. ActionAid sets out what must be done, and done now, to achieve the goal of universal access by 2010.

By Aditi Sharma, ActionAid International
30/05/2006 122.42 KB pdf

3…2…1…Gone? Failure to call Global Fund Round 6 risks the whole 2010 AIDS treatment target

Global Fund funding rounds are becoming further and further apart due to the failure of donors to commit enough resources. If Round 6 is delayed until 2007 or even later, the G8’s treatment target will not be possible. ActionAid calls on the UK Government to continue its leadership on AIDS from 2005 and launch Round 6.

By Simon Wright, ActionAid
11/04/2006 93.72 KB pdf

Four Years after Abuja: More Action Required on Spending Commitments!

This report from ActionAid International, Africa region, looks at progress since the 2001 African Union summit on AIDS where leaders committed to spend 15% of their national budgets on health. It finds that there has been some progress but funding for AIDS remains inadequate. None of the 9 countries surveyed meet the 15% target and trends are mixed. It also shows that, per person with HIV, Africa is receiving less aid than other areas.

By ActionAid International Africa
15/10/2005 153.29 KB pdf

Where's the money? Towards transparency in UK AIDS expenditure

As the second largest bilateral donor for HIV & AIDS interventions, the UK has a responsibility for greater transparency. This report analyses 2003/04 expenditure and demonstrates a need for the Government to improve it’s reporting by providing more detailed data.

By M.Felicity Daly, ActionAid
01/09/2005 324.23 KB

Changing course: alternative approaches to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and fight HIV & AIDS

Analysis of impacts of IMF-led policies and on the investment required to meet the MDG's and control HIV & AIDS, arguing that alternative paths forward must be urgently explored.

By Rick Rowden, ActionAid International USA
01/09/2005 4.76 MB pdf