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Pangaea commends President Obama's commitment to fighting global AIDS

December 1, 2011

The Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation welcomes US President Obama’s World AIDS remarks, in which he recognized that both nationally, and internationally, the AIDS epidemic “is not over – not by a long shot”.

In particular, the President called for HIV treatment to be provided to an additional 6 million HIV positive people worldwide by 2013. This is in addition to US support – including through the Global Fund – for the treatment, currently, of nearly 6 million people across the world.

HIV/AIDS is Still Everyone's Business - Pangaea's Ben Plumley Blogs on the Huffington Post

June 9, 2011

Ten years ago, at the first UN General Assembly Session on AIDS, Richard Holbrooke, Bill Roedy of MTV, Peter Piot of UNAIDS and I established the Global Business Coalition on HIV & AIDS. Those were heady days -- and with leading corporations such as Anglo American, Chevron, Daimler, MTV and Standard Chartered Bank -- we transformed the business response to AIDS around three key principles: establishing HIV prevention, testing and treatment programs for all employees; expanding these programs to local communities, and; employing the power of business advocacy to push for strengthened national and international AIDS responses.

Pangaea Urges Support for FDA Review of HIV Drug for PrEP

March 21, 2011

Pangaea, along with many other AIDS organizations in the U.S. and internationally, has signed a letter supporting FDA review of an HIV medicine that has been studied for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). A number of trials are being conducted around the world to assess whether HIV-negative people at risk of HIV can reduce their risk of becoming infected by taking antiretroviral medicines.

New York Times reports: "A First in Sub-Saharan Africa: Methadone Maintenance Program"

February 21, 2011

A New York Times article on February 21, 2011 highlighted the ground-breaking launch in Tanzania of the first government-sponsored methadone program in sub-Saharan Africa.

The program is a collaboration between the Drug Control Commission of Tanzania (DCC), the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, and Muhibimli University with funding provided the U.S.

Pangaea Assists Tanzania in Launch of Ground-Breaking Methadone Program

February 11, 2011

Methadone being dispensed at Dar es Salaam clinic

On February 10, 2010 Tanzania became the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to offer a medication assisted treatment ("MAT") program for injection drug users ("IDUs"). The first MAT clinic opened at Muhimbili National Hospital in Dar es Salaam yesterday and is already providing methadone to patients as part of a comprehensive drug and HIV prevention and treatment program that aims to head off an epidemic of HIV among injection drug users in Tanzania.

Pangaea Supports the Global Fund's Commitment to Transparency and Fighting Fraud

January 27, 2011

Pangaea is concerned about the impact of recent misleading media reports that misrepresent the level of fraud at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Fraud is unacceptable – but it is the Global Fund itself that has identified, reported and addressed fraudulent activities as part of its own internal management procedures. The total amount of funds at issue is $34 million – in other words .03 percent of the $13 billion that the Global Fund has distributed so far – funds that have transformed the lives of people living with and affected by HIV, TB and malaria.