FCAA Blog

The FCAA Blog will regularly feature posts from Executive Director John Barnes. Stay tuned for his thoughts on recent news, events and issues of importance to FCAA and its members, as well as guest posts from key members of the community.

We want to hear from you! Tell us what you want to hear more about, and how we can make this blog more useful to the HIV/AIDS philanthropic sector.  Please send your comments and feedback to info@fcaaids.org.

HIV/AIDS & Advocacy – Ensuring “Outsized” Impact.

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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“Sometimes it’s just a question of money” The role of private philanthropy in helping to achieve universal access for youth

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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FY 13 Budget Briefing: Recording now available!

02/23/2012

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GUEST BLOG: Uncounted: MSM, Stigma and HIV Financing

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... Read more.

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