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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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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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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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