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03/29/2013
Are you attending YTHLIVE the 6th annual conference on Youth + Tech + Health from April 7-9 in San Francisco?
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03/27/2013
Learn more about the two new HIV/AIDS grantmakers voted to the FCAA
Board of Directors in December 2012. Introducing: John Edmiston and
Michael Kaplan, and reintroducing Andrea Flynn as Board Chair.
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02/01/2013
Read the latest blog post from the Levi Strauss Foundation detailing how
their support of the Global Fund for Women helps to "empower activists
to confront the stigma and discrimination that perpetuates abuse and
fuels the spread of HIV/AIDS among women".
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01/31/2013
It is our hope that our new Strategic Plan, and our strategies to achieve it, will help expand and strengthen the philanthropic response to AIDS. Let us know what you think!
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08/16/2012
Authored by John Barnes, for Funders for LGBTQ Issues
The XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS2012) took place in
Washington, D.C. from July 23-27. On U.S. soil for the first time in
more than 20 years,[1] this vibrant and sometimes chaotic conference boasted 24,000 attendees and close to 200 sessions over the course of six days...
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07/12/2012
Authored by Naina Khanna, Positive Women's Network Coordinator, and Director of Policy & Community Organizing, WORLD
Summer 2012 is an exciting time for HIV advocates in the United States. New data and modeling studies show that we have the science to break the back of the HIV epidemic. This July, the International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) returns to U.S. soil after a 22-year absence. The theme of AIDS 2012 is Turning the Tide Together – meaning that we have the science to end new HIV infections and to keep people living with HIV healthy. Now we have to muster the political will and resources to make this possibility a reality.
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05/15/2012
Authored by Sarah Hamilton
“The old way of doing things is simply no longer effective in this
new world. It’s time for all of us to take risks on new ideas,
approaches, and initiatives. It’s time for us to be bold, to act with
urgency, and to resist the tendency to let caution be our guide. It’s
time for us to Be Fearless.” Jean Case, The Case Foundation
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04/24/2012
Authored by Sean Cahill, Director, Health Policy Research, Fenway Institute
Over the past few years we have witnessed a number of advances in science-based HIV prevention and care policy and LGBT health policy in the U.S. We have a first-ever National HIV/AIDS Strategy that prioritizes reducing the disparity affecting gay and bisexual men—who were 64% of new infections in 2009, although just 2% of the adult population. We repealed a number of counterproductive policies dating back to the dark days of the 1980s and Senator Jesse Helms, such as ending the HIV entry ban, ending the ban on using federal funds for syringe exchange, and ending funding for abstinence-only-until-marriage education. Unfortunately, the latter two changes were short-lived. And we’ve seen long overdue increases in funding for Ryan White care, the AIDS Drug Assistance Program, HIV prevention through the CDC, and research at NIH, including promising biomedical prevention research....
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04/24/2012
Authored by Owen Ryan, Deputy Director, Public Policy at amfAR
At a community meeting in Atlanta, Georgia on March 20th, Kevin Fenton, director of Centers for Disease Control & Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention said, “Our own stigma, our own homophobia, cascades down in our funding and allocations…” Dr. Fenton was recognizing a reality in the United States that has become increasingly apparent to health policymakers throughout the world: that despite high prevalence rates of HIV among gay men and other MSM, funding for HIV prevention, treatment and care consistently neglects these populations, often due to stigma and discrimination...
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02/16/2012
Learn more about the six new HIV/AIDS grantmakers voted to the FCAA Board of Directors in November 2011. Introducing: David Munar, Scott Campbell, Shari Turitz, Shane Jenkins, Caitlin Chandler and Andrea Flynn.
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02/16/2012
By: John Barnes
Setting the Stage
1987 was a momentous year. President
Reagan was embroiled in the Iran Contra affair in the same year that he
famously called upon Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down
this wall” in Berlin, and nominated Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. Televangelist
Pat Robertson launched his campaign for the presidency and the Dow
Jones Industrial Average hit historic highs at 2,000 and 2,500 before
crashing on “Black Monday”. In pop culture, Aretha
Franklin was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, while future
global health activist, Bono, released Joshua Tree with U2; plans were unveiled for Euro Disney and The Simpsons were introduced to American television audiences.
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02/09/2012
Authored by Caitlin Chandler & Sarah Hamilton for CrowdOutAIDS
In 2010, U.S.-based private philanthropy disbursed $459 million to HIV-related programming[1] (note: this excludes bi-lateral, multilateral, and government spending and takes into account funders with portfolios of over US$300,000 in HIV-related disbursements annually).U.S.-based funders that supported international HIV programs in 2010 targeted 38% of their money towards youth[2].
Read the full blog on the CrowdOutAIDS blog.
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11/14/2011
The powerful roles TasP and funding must play in achieving an "AIDS-Free Generation"
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09/01/2011
Authored by: Daniel Jae-Won Lee, Executive Director, Levi Strauss Foundation and Chair, FCAA Board of Directors
This week, almost 3,000 delegates representing more than 55 countries gathered at the 10th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and Pacific (ICAAP) to discuss the HIV/AIDS response in the region...
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07/20/2011
Guest Blog, authored by Kandy Ferree, President & CEO of 360 Strategy Group.
On June 15th, fifty years after the last visit of a sitting president (John F. Kennedy) to the Island, President Barack Obama made a historic but timely visit to Puerto Rico. If the President of the United States of America believes Puerto Rico deserves his attention and that Puerto Rico has the promise of economic opportunity and health for its citizenry, why has U.S.-based philanthropy, and HIV/AIDS philanthropy been slow to do the same? President Obama noted in his remarks, “… I promised to include Puerto Rico not just on my itinerary, but also in my vision of where our country needs to go.” Will public health and leaders in health philanthropy demonstrate the same commitment?
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07/15/2011
Authored by Sarah Hamilton
As a new parent, I’ve been watching a lot of television. A lot. But something the other day gave me pause: a commercial featuring an African-American woman talking about her experience as an HIV-positive single mother in America today. This spot was part of We are Greater than AIDS,
the national media movement launched by the Kaiser Family Foundation
and the Black AIDS Institute in 2009 to respond to the AIDS crisis in
the U.S., with particular emphasis on the severe and disproportionate
epidemic among Black Americans. Importantly, it ran during So You Think
You Can Dance (yes, I admit it)…not only are we talking about prime time
placement, but an audience one can assume is made up of young adults
and teens, an age group that continues to be at risk with latest
statistics showing that those between 13 and 29 accounted for 34% of new
infections in 2006 (Kaiser, June 2011).
A few years back I remember having the same feeling after seeing a
PSA-type trailer before a movie that featured Magic Johnson (check out
the work of the FCAA member organization Magic Johnson Foundation here); I tried to remember the last time I had seen something like this (hint: it was close to a decade).
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06/21/2011
Authored by: Sarah Hamilton
The 30th anniversary of AIDS also
creates an important opportunity for the FCAA community to stop and
reflect on the important role of philanthropy has played in supporting
and advancing the global response to HIV/AIDS. Following the first
reported case of AIDS, philanthropy was still struggling to respond to
the epidemic; most funding for early AIDS efforts came from individuals,
and was mostly informal and highly personal. In 1987 FCAA was founded by
a group of grantmakers dedicated to bringing philanthropic attention to
the AIDS crisis and to building the field of AIDS-related philanthropy.
In 2003 FCAA published HIV/AIDS Philanthropy: History and Current Parameters 1981-2000 to provide a brief overview and history of U.S.-based HIV/AIDS philanthropy.
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05/23/2011
Authored by John Barnes, for the Council on Foundations
FCAA and many of our partners in the philanthropy community mobilize
philanthropic leadership, ideas, and resources, and seek opportunities
for collaboration, including public-private partnerships. This work is
as challenging as it is important, but now the philanthropic sector has a
new and engaged partner in the federal government: the Social Innovation Fund (SIF).
Read the full blog on re:Philanthropy
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02/04/2011
Authored by John Barnes
On January 23, 2011, the AP released a piece alleging “discovery” of fraudulent use of Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) grants. The story sought to appeal to readers by invoking the celebrity angle – leading some to believe that Bono himself was somehow implicated. Leaning toward sensationalism, it used inflammatory language and misleading examples to support the allegations against the Global Fund. While the reporter did admit that it was the Global Fund’s own investigations that uncovered misuse of funds, it somehow made it seem like it was the findings of a whistle blower that were going unheard.
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