Hundreds of millions of people are affected by “diseases of the poor”, such as African sleeping sickness, Leishmaniasis, and Chagas disease, as well as better known killers like Malaria and Tuberculosis. Yet there are far too few drugs, vaccines, and diagnostic tests to address these health challenges.

As a publicly accessible global knowledge platform consisting of a network of partners that collect, analyze, and disseminate information about Health Market Innovations in developing countries, the Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI) website facilitates the exchange of knowledge and the creation of strategic linkages among key stakeholders.

Key leaders from the Uganda AIDS Commission, the Zambian National AIDS Council, the Global Fund, and the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator came together at the Global Health Council Annual Conference to discuss and debate the future costs and challenges of financing the global response to the AIDS epidemic.

Nicholas Burnett delivered the keynote presentation to the International Working Group on Education, a biennial assembly of the major public and private donors to education, in Stockholm on June 7.

The theme of this year's meeting was "Financing education: Redesigning national strategies and the global aid architecture". Burnett argued that parents and developing country governments are doing their best but that international donors lag behind. He called for attention to seven topics:

How much will the fight against AIDS cost in the coming years, who will pay for it in the midst of global economic crisis and competing spending priorities, and how can governments better use their scarce AIDS resources to have the greatest impact on the epidemic?

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Dr. Apuuli - bio.pdf

Bio - DR. BENSON CHIRWA.pdf

Rifat Atun bio Global Fund_5Mar2010.pdf

Paul D. Bouey bio.pdf

On Friday, the 63rd World Health Assembly passed a resolution called, “Strengthening the capacity of governments to constructively engage the private sector in providing essential health-care services,” spearheaded by the delegation from Thailand.

On Monday, the New York Times featured findings from the aids2031 Costs and Financing Project, directed by R4D, in a pair of front page articles examining the global response to HIV/AIDS.