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Despite civil society efforts, donors only pledged $9.7 billion yesterday to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria at a fund-raising conference in Berlin. This was an increase over previous donations, but well short of the $15 billion to $18 billion the fund had hoped to raise.

The National Campaigner’s Meeting on Universal Access took place 2 – 4 July in Nairobi. Civil society representatives from all over the world came together to discuss how to make universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support become a reality for everyone by 2010.
The meeting helped to highlight the many extraordinary opportunities currently existing for joint campaigning efforts. Universal access was discussed both in terms of the national campaigning efforts and also in terms of its international campaigning opportunities. But the meeting gave a useful illustration of the challenges ahead, outlining the many fault lines within the international civil society response, where a competitive funding environment and orientation to simple quantifiable deliverables, and poor communication serve to fragment and hinder shared campaigning efforts.

On May 23, pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories filed a lawsuit in French criminal court against the AIDS advocacy group Act Up-Paris for launching a netstrike on the company's website. The netstrike was a response to a call from Thai HIV/AIDS groups to protest Abbott's recent actions regarding its antiretrovirals Aluvia and Kaletra in Thailand.

Leading AIDS campaigners from around the world are meeting in Nairobi, Kenya to see how they can make universal access on prevention, treatment, care and support a reality. While international NGOs often meet, this will be the first time that large numbers of national campaigners will discuss what they can do together. The meeting marks increasing concern over the lack of progress in the fight against AIDS. Organised by the World AIDS Campaign, the meeting is being held at the Panafric Sarova Hotel 2-4 July.

The UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board meeting will take place in Geneva, Switzerland from 25-27 June 2007. A report on the progress on follow-up support to countries in their national target setting towards universal access has been released.

This document represents a start to making a roadmap on campaigning for universal access until 2010. Our hope is that by helping create shared understanding of the campaigning challenges and opportunities ahead we are making a contribution to shared action. Much of the document is incomplete so if you have any information, please share it.

As the Programme Coordination Board for UNAIDS convene to review progress, ICASO has issued a community sector monitoring report that critiques current efforts and calls for greater action. ICASO has stressed that UNAIDS should provide greater clarity and guidance on what is meant by ‘universal access’.

Your input is requested for a project by the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) to support community sector advocates to assess their involvement in the Universal Access target setting process and identify the gaps in the targets set. The aim is to support community advocacy for targets that are comprehensive and that reflect the reality of their country’s epidemic, and to support the monitoring and documentation of progress in achieving those targets. ICASO is supporting in-depth analysis in 4 countries as well as overall regional analyses in Asia Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and Eastern and Central Europe.

Joint News Release WHO/UNAIDS/UNICEF
More efforts needed for universal access to services
17 APRIL 2007 | LONDON
Access to antiretroviral therapy for advanced HIV infection in low- and middle-income countries continued to grow throughout 2006, with more than 2 million people living with HIV/AIDS receiving treatment in December 2006, a 54% increase over the 1.3 million people on treatment one year earlier in these countries.