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>Subject: News Update - 21 OCT. 1998
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>THE GLOBAL AIDS PROGRAM OF
>The Global Health Council (formerly NCIH)
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>E-MAIL NEWS UPDATE Oct. 21, 1998
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>· Global HIV/AIDS gets US Congressional Funding increase!
>· Scholarships awarded to HIV/AIDS leaders
>· Council President to give keynote at IAPAC Conference
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>GLOBAL HIV/AIDS GETS US CONGRESSIONAL FUNDING INCREASE
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>In the first increase in funding for International HIV/AIDS programs since
>1993, the US Congress voted this week to include an additional $4 million
>in spending on AIDS into the 1999 Foreign Operations budget. This brings
>the total amount of funding the US allocates to global spending on AIDS to
>$125 million.
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>The $125 million is allocated to the United States Agency for International
>Development (USAID) which spends the money through its HIV/AIDS portfolio
>on research, program monitoring and evaluation, prevention education,
>condom social marketing, NGO capacity building, contribution to UNAIDS, and
>more.
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>This is the first time since 1993 that the US has increased its allocation
>to global AIDS programs.
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>GLOBAL HEALTH COUNCIL AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS TO HIV/AIDS LEADERS
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>Twelve frontline HIV/AIDS leaders from different countries will attend the
>1998 United States Conference on AIDS (USCA) courtesy of the Global Health
>Council, formerly NCIH. The leaders are beneficiaries of scholarships from
>by the Global Health Council as part of its effort to promote the
>participation of community-based NGO-representatives at key conferences,
>meetings and workshops around the world.
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>"One of our core functions is information-sharing with developing
>countries where the greatest health challenges remain," said Dr. Nils
>Daulaire, president of the Global Health Council. "By reaching out to
>health leaders and advocates from other communities, we give a new force to
>our historic focus on the global interdependence of a wide range of health
>issues."
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>The recipients are drawn from non-governmental and private-voluntary
>organizations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Carribbean. They will
>join representatives of other organizations in Europe and North America at
>the United States Conference on AIDS, the largest gathering of researchers,
>community leaders and HIV Program leaders in the US annually. This year’s
>conference which will be held in Dallas, Texas, from Oct. 28 to Nov. 1,
>1998, is expected to attract at least 2,700 participants.
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>The scholarship recipients will attend and make presentations at the
>first-ever International Track which will take place at the conference.
>The International Track will feature twelve workshops on varying themes
>drawn from contemporary issues in the global AIDS pandemic.
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>The recipients are: Dr. Maria Eugenia L. Fernandes, Associacao Saude da
>Familia, Brazil; Kamanee Hapugalle, Alliance Lanka, Sri Lanka; Marina
>Mahathir, Malaysian AIDS Council; Bright Ekweremadu, Society for Family
>Health, Nigeria; Claudette Francis, CRN+, Trinidad; Renate Koch, Community
>Action Against AIDS, Venezuela; Clint Walters, AIDS Health Project, UK;
>Raymond MacPherson, HIV Risk Reduction Partnership for Youth, Jamaica; and
>Janet Frohlich, Medical Research Council, South Africa; Fran Balamuth, Thai
>Youth AIDS Prevention; Tita Gwenjeng Issac, ANP+, Cameroon; and Jorque
>Huerdo, FRENPAVI, Mexico.
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>Funding for Council scholarships was provided by USAID, UNAIDS, the Centers
>for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Office of Refugee and
>International Health at the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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>COUNCIL PRESIDENT TO GIVE KEYNOTE AT IAPAC CONFERENCE
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>Global Health Council President Dr. Nils Daulaire will deliver the keynote
>address at the "Second International Conference on Healthcare Resource
>Allocation for HIV/AIDS and Other Life Threatening Illnesses", to be held
>Nov. 15-18 in Cancun, Mexico.
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>Nils' keynote presentation opens the conference hosted by the International
>Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC). The theme of the
>conference is to discuss, examine, and propose solutions to the economic
>and ethical challenges faced by a global community of individuals,
>governments, and NGO entities in their efforts to reduce unnecessary
>suffering and death.
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>Nils' presentation at 8:45 a.m. on Monday morning, Nov. 16, opens the
>conference following words of welcome from Mexican President Ernesto
>Zedillo. The conference is co-sponsored by the World Bank, UNAIDS, PAHO,
>Harvard AIDS Institute and CONASIDA (Mexico).
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