MIND THE GAPS: Big dangers of complacency in the global HIV response By Mthuli Ncube
9 Sep 2016
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MIND THE GAPS: Big dangers of complacency in the global HIV response By Mthuli Ncube

POST BY: RUSH Foundation

The International AIDS Conference 2016, returned to Durban, South Africa, sixteen years after the 2000 conference, where Nkosi Johnson, an 11-year-old boy, gave a memorable address in which he called for the social acceptance of people living with HIV(PLHIV). While stigma still persists against PLHIV, there is much progress to be proud of in the acceptance of PLHIV around the world. The 2016 IADS Conference was not short of high profile speakers and attendees, from...

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Contingent Innovative Finance for Economic Collapse from Disease Pandemics. Do we value unforeseen deaths more than those on our radar? by Mthuli Ncube
7 Jul 2016
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Contingent Innovative Finance for Economic Collapse from Disease Pandemics. Do we value unforeseen deaths more than those on our radar? by Mthuli Ncube

POST BY: RUSH Foundation

The recent launch of the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility by the World Bank in partnership with World Health Organisation, Swiss Re and Munich Re, marks a timely and much-awaited milestone in innovative contingent funding for low-income economies impacted by infectious disease pandemics (Robin Harding, FT, 21 May 2016). The Ebola outbreak which impacted parts of West Africa wrecked the economies of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, costing $10 billion and 12,000 lives. The financial and epidemiological setbacks could...

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