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News October 04, 2024
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Dutch investments drive global access to contraception and HIV care, but budget cuts could threaten progress

A new report by the Guttmacher Institute shows that Dutch investments in development cooperation have given 8.5 million people access to modern contraception and 2.6 million people to HIV-care and testing. The new report has looked into the proposed budget cuts for development cooperation by the new Dutch government and the impact on girls, women and LGBTIQI+ people around the world. According to Guttmacher, in 2024 alone Dutch support has prevented 2.6 million unintended pregnancies and 938,000 unsafe abortions, saving an estimated 2800 lives.

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News October 01, 2024
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Launch of MultiParty Initiative Global Health and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights

On Friday 4 October, Aidsfonds together with other civil society members of the Dutch Global Health Alliance and the SRHR platform are launching the MultiParty Initiative (MPI) on Global Health and Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights (SRHR). This informal group of Dutch Members of Parliament (MPs) works jointly to support the Dutch government’s efforts on global health and SRHR.

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News July 22, 2024
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New UNAIDS report: Key populations continue to be neglected in most HIV programmes

Figures from the new UNAIDS report ‘The Urgency of Now – AIDS at a Crossroads’, published prior to the 25th International AIDS Conference taking place in Germany this week, show that the AIDS response is making little progress globally. For the first time in the history of the HIV pandemic, more new infections are occurring outside sub-Saharan Africa than within. Three regions are experiencing rising numbers of new HIV infections: Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Middle East and North Africa. People from key populations and their sex partners continue to be neglected in most HIV programmes.

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Story May 23, 2024
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Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Empowering Diversity and Youth Participation in Indonesia

The impact of barriers experienced by young people with diverse gender and sexuality backgrounds in Indonesia emerges in the context of issues of human rights fulfillment and meaningful engagement in health and legal services. Discriminatory regulations and inhospitable services for young people of diverse genders and sexualities place them in a more vulnerable position to higher HIV infection rates, and criminalisation.

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