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The Global Fund’s investments have reduced deaths from HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria by 61% since 2002, saving 65 million lives. [27] Recent efforts include lowering the cost of key treatments for drug-resistant TB by 55% and first-line HIV medications by 25%, while introducing a more effective insecticide-treated mosquito net. [28]
Adventist Development and Relief Agency Pakistan; AFS Intercultural Exchanges; American Himalaya Foundation; Arab-Pakistani Fund; Akhuwat Foundation; Asian Human Rights Development Organization; Association for the Development of Pakistan; Aurat Foundation; Aga Khan Rural Support Programme; ACTED
UNAIDS Policy Position Paper on Intensifying HIV Prevention in 2005. The aim of UNAIDS is to help mount and support an expanded response to HIV/AIDS, one that engages the efforts of many sectors and partners from government and civil society. Established by ECOSOC resolution 1994/24 on 26 July 1994, UNAIDS officially launched in January 1996.
Pathfinder International is a global non-profit organization that focuses on sexual and reproductive health and rights, including reproductive health, family planning, HIV/AIDS prevention and care, and maternal and newborn health. The organization operates in more than 15 low- and middle-income countries in Africa and South Asia.
HIV is recognized as a health concern in Pakistan with the number of cases growing. Moderately high drug use and lack of acceptance that non-marital sex is common in the society have allowed the HIV epidemic to take hold in Pakistan, mainly among injecting drug users (IDU), male, female and transvestite sex workers (MSW, FSW and TSW) as well as the repatriated migrant workers.
There has been a steady decrease of HIV/AIDS cases from 2006 to 2011, recent research is revealing that there is a decrease in the number of persons being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in Guyana. Research also showed that there has been a decrease in the rate of deaths from this disease(s). Over 350,000 persons were tested over a five-year period. [3]
Tuberculosis is a high priority agenda in the National Health Policy of Pakistan.Health Department Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa planned and implemented “TB Eradication Program NWFP (Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa)” to control TB in the Province in 2000, through a PC-1 for duration of five years (2000–2005).
Partnership Frameworks provide a 5-year joint strategic framework for cooperation between the U.S. Government, the partner government, and other partners to combat HIV/AIDS in the host country through service delivery, policy reform, and coordinated financial commitments.See the PEPFAR World Wide Activities Map and PEPFAR Dashboard.