AIDES
ACTION is an International Partnership of Civil Society Advocates
ACTION’s mission is to build support for increased resources for effective TB control, especially among key policymakers and other opinion leaders in both high TB burden countries and donor countries. With effective policy advocacy and greater political will, rapid progress can be made against the global TB epidemic.
AIDES
Background: Founded in 1984 and recognized as a public utility in 1990, AIDES was the first and is the leading HIV/AIDS organization in France. AIDES works to strengthen access to treatment, care and prevention, and advocacy for the HIV/AIDS community on a local, national and international scale.
Mission: AIDES supports and empowers people living with HIV/AIDS to play an active role in the health systems and affect important public health decisions.
AIDES has been instrumental in working towards ACTION’s goals.
- AIDES have played key roles in raising awareness of TB among French policymakers, including organization of a parliamentary delegation to Burkina Faso in March 2009.
- AIDES, along with other European CSOs, continue to raise awareness about the need to fully fund the Global Fund to European decision makers. In 2009, they helped launch the “Remind the Gap” campaign, securing the support of over 100 organizations from 25 countries.
- AIDES catalyzed the establishment of the Europe TB Coalition, the first Coalition to address TB within the European Union.
Social Media Buzz From AIDES
The Quilt for an Aids-free generation by 2015
Posted December 22 2011
Coinciding with World Aids Day, the NGOs ONE, AIDES and (RED) are now launching the French version of the Quilt(2015), an innovative on-line tool created to bring the whole world together in a joint p...
Africa: homophobia escalates; Aids worsens
Posted December 21 2011
Stigma, beliefs, Aids: these three issues are closely linked in Africa. Under the influence of powerful religious leaders, 39 countries out of the 53 that make up the African continent, still criminal...
Icasa 2011: UNAIDS calls for solidarity
Posted December 21 2011
“Appropriation, strengthening, sustainability”. This was the theme of the 16th international Aids Conference in Africa (ICASA 2011) which opened on Sunday the 4th December 2011, and is surely the...
Miss Promises is going to steal the limelight at the Cannes G20
Posted November 3 2011
Universal access to AIDS treatments was promised for 2010. One year later, the missed promises has resulted in millions dying. ‘Miss Promises’ invites herself to the G20 to denounce the impact of...
Africa : "If money for HIV was used better…"
Posted November 2 2011
Decreased financial resources, dollars going missing, confused ministers and so on. The situation described by Tabin Tangila Mesu, adcocacy officer to political leaders in the Democratic Republic of C...
"We need to safeguard the Global Fund"
Posted October 11 2011
In Cameroon, as in many sub-Saharan African countries, antiretrovirals have been free since late 2010. It is a “spectacular but incomplete measure” say local activists. On the eve of the G20, as N...
Sexy Fingers : Let your fingers get busy. And play !
Posted August 10 2011
It only takes a finger to get done, … and to administer a rapid AIDS test by sampling a drop of blood on top of your fingertip, with result in less than 30 mn. To bring this simple concept to life...
Posted July 19 2011
After Deauville, Miss Promises arrived in Rome to demand that Merck, Johnson & Johnson and Abbott enter the UNITAID Patent Pool read more
Gay pride 2011: a revolution in prevention
Posted July 19 2011
This summer, once again, the gay pride parade took to the streets in seventeen cities in France. Since the 21st May 2011, hundreds of activists and members of the LGBT community (lesbians, gay men, bi...
