Category: Middle East
MENA Grants Update
This section will provide an update on where grants are at in all MENA countries. Most have recently been approved or should be approved soon. This is a particularly relevant time to provide an update like this. Afghanistan Disease...
Global Fund MENA Regional Platform is relaunched
ITPC-MENA continues as the host for the Middle East and North Africa region As a key component of the Global Fund’s Community, Rights and Gender Strategic Initiative, the Regional Platform for Communication and Coordination will continue to support and facilitate...
A new victory for ITPC-MENA : Bristol-Myers Squibb extends its voluntary license on Atazanavir to Egypt
The 9th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV / AIDS 2017 : Bristol-Myers Squibb extends its voluntary license on Atazanavir to Egypt, a victory for ITPC-MENA Today, at the World Conference on AIDS, which is currently taking place in Paris...
BLOG: We want dolutegravir for all, and we want it now
Source: makemedicinesaffordable Author: Othoman Mellouk, Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines Lead at the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC). Article first published on the Huffington Post here. We’re calling for a compulsory license on a ‘new’ HIV drug to be...
ITPC MENA IN THE REGIONAL CONSULTATION ON ACCELERATING ACCESS TO THE CONTIUUM OF HIV CARE: FOCUS ON HIV TESTING
Beirut, Lebanon, 12–14 July 2017 By the end of 2015, the estimated number of people living with HIV in the Region had reached 330 000. With a continuously growing epidemic coupled with low coverage of ART, standing at 14% of...
M-Coalition launch a new guide: Key Population Engagement in Global Fund Country Dialogue CCMs and the 2017-‐2019 funding cycle
Source : M-Colaition This resource guide is designed to assist civil society organizations in understanding how to access funding from the Global Fund (GF) and effectively engage in country dialogue through all the key stages. In 2014, the Global Fund’s...
Middle East and North Africa Position Statement on HIV/AIDS to the High-Level Meeting on AIDS
Middle East and North Africa Position Statement on HIV/AIDS to the UN General Assembly Special Session High-Level Meeting on AIDS 6 – 8 June 2016 We, the undersigned communities of the MENA region; regional an d national networks and civil...
The first Middle East and North Africa Community Advisory Board (MENA-CAB)
Casablanca, Morocco, 28 June-01 July 2014 Despite the fact that HIV prevalence in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa is believed to be low at least among the General Population, the rate of increase of new cases...
HIV Activists from the MENA Region Call on Gulf States to Contribute to the 4th Replenishment of the Global Fund
November 30, 2013 - On the occasion of World AIDS Day 2013, HIV treatment activists from the MENA region called on wealthy Gulf States to join the Global Fund donor’s community sharing responsibility and engagement in a common mission to...
GENERATION OF CHANGE: Portraits of HIV & AIDS Activists from MENA
The Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region is in turmoil. The trajectory and consequences of the current political, social and economic transformations rippling across the region will become clear in the years ahead. Meanwhile, the region is also experiencing one of...