Friday, February 09, 2007
Catholic Medical Mission Board
Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) is the leading U.S.-based Catholic-charity focusing exclusively on global healthcare, particularly the well-being of women and children.
A faith-based leader in global healthcare, CMMB works to fight HIV/AIDS from Africa to Asia, to combat tuberculosis in Zambia, and to provide primary healthcare in Latin America and the Caribbean. CMMB has provided medicines and supplies to more than 100 countries around the world since 1928.
CMMB is focused on the development and management of healthcare programs that meet identified needs, make a lasting impact and utilize all our experience and expertise. Through these programs, we are helping to build a world where quality healthcare is available to all.
CMMB fulfills its mission by building and managing comprehensive healthcare programs that target leading causes of death and suffering in the developing world. We integrate our key strengths – medical donations , and volunteer placement – into our program initiatives. CMMB also provides emergency relief to places that have experienced natural or political catastrophes.
Among US-based charities, CMMB rates as one of the most effective and trusted international healthcare organizations. We have one of the broadest networks of faith-based partners around the world. Many of these faith-based institutions work in the hardest-to-reach areas and thus offer healthcare accessibility that governments cannot. In many developing countries, Catholic health institutions and other church-affiliated programs are leading the response to health crises such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and preventable diseases.
In addition to the work we do overseas, CMMB strives to raise consciousness here at home about the inequalities in basic healthcare throughout the world. We are active in several international groups that effect changes in policies and regulations regarding the distribution of donated drugs. We also publish CMMB Today, a quarterly publication that focuses on international healthcare issues and the impact of our work.
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Children and AIDs from UNICEF
Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS was launched in October 2005 with the goal of putting the ‘missing face’ of children at the centre of the global HIV/AIDS agenda. In the year since, the world’s response to protect and support AIDS-affected children remains tragically insufficient. But in important and positive ways, that is beginning to change.
This report takes stock of some of the most important actions and changes for children affected by HIV/AIDS that have taken place in the first year of Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS. Among other developments, the report finds that children and AIDS had by 2006 become more clearly integrated into national policy frameworks, including national plans of action (NPAs) and poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSPs) in at least 20 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. It finds increasing numbers of children now receiving treatment as a result of improved testing, lower drug prices and simpler formulations. It reports that in several countries, behaviour change has translated into declining HIV prevalence among young people. And the disparity between orphans and non-orphans in access to education has been reduced in several countries. Over the past year, there has been a broad, growing recognition of the need to intensify and accelerate actions towards universal access to comprehensive prevention, treatment, care and support. Commitment to this goal by 2010 was affirmed by Heads of State and Government and their representatives participating in the 2006 High-Level Meeting on AIDS held at the United Nations in New York, 31 May–2 June 2006.
Further, this report reviews progress towards support strategies identified as critical elements of a child-focused response. It seeks to illuminate some of the ways in which Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS has shown relevance and promise, as well as some of the ways it has failed to spur the global, regional and country mobilization required to address the problems facing children affected by AIDS. It will explore how Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS needs to move forward in the next year to achieve its ambitious goals.
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