uk aids consortium annual review 2011 - 2012
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ANNUAL REVIEW 2011 – 2012
THE END OF AIDS?
CAMPAIGNINGLOBBYINGPOLICY
Our membership
Timeline 2011-12
Foreword and letter fromour Director and Chair
Producing policy papersto understand and engagewith the UK Government:
Girls and Women:Mainstreaming HIV andAIDS into DFID’s strategicvision; Fighting TB/HIVCo-infection; Past Due:Remuneration and socialProtection for caregiversin the context of HIVand AIDS
BUILDINGEVIDENCE FORGOOD PRACTICE
GUIDING POLICY
Our Stocktake Report
Investing in Communitiesto Achieve Results
David Cairns: a tribute
Highlights fromthe Working Groups
Care and Support Indicators
Value for Money inthe AIDS response
Faith healing
Providing online resources:HIV Code of Good Practiceand the AIDSPortal
BEST PRACTICE
LOBBYING
Why join?
CAMPAIGNING
Highlighting an historicopportunity: The Endof AIDS film
Real story: Mohammed Barry
Fighting for Accessto Medicines
World AIDS Day1.12.2011
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Financial report andWord from our Treasurer
PROMOTING AN EFFECTIVE GLOBAL RESPONSE TO HIV AND AIDS
Supporting the InternationalResponse: The Global Fundin crisis
Engaging with global leaders:the High Level Meetingon AIDS (HLM)
Holding the UK Governmentto account: our responseto DFID’s Position Paperon HIV and AIDS
The All Party ParliamentaryGroup on HIV and AIDS(APPG)
Annie Lennox meets AndrewMitchell on World AIDS Day
FOREWORD AND LETTER FROM OUR CHAIR AND DIRECTOR
The global response
to HIV and AIDS is
at a crossroads and
as a result, the Con-
sortium and its Stop
AIDS Campaign has
never been busier or
more necessary.
In 2011, for the first time in history, we
started using the phrase “the beginning of
the end of AIDS” in our advocacy and
campaign work. This phrase, 30 years in
the making, is above all a reward for the
activism and intelligence of people living
with HIV and their allies. It renews our
hope that the promises made in our name
by our Government and by the organis-
ations we work for, will be fulfilled.
And yet, rather than galvanise us, there is a
risk that the opposite will happen: that UK
Government and UK civil society will react
with complacency in the mistaken belief
that the challenges of HIV and AIDS are
behind us. At this very moment of
opportunity, the global response to HIV
and AIDS has become uniquely vulnerable,
and so too has the Consortium. Our funding
from DFID is coming to an end, and
our membership income is in danger
of collapsing.
Ironically, we have
never been busier, or
our Working Groups
better attended. This
Annual Review gives
insight in to this, and
you must be the judge
of whether our work is
still of value. For our
part, we resolve to continue to work
tirelessly, and we look to do this in
partnership with you, drawing on the full
force of our growing membership of 80
UK-based organisations.
People often express surprise when they
learn that the staff team is just four people
– and I hope you feel this as well. It is of
course, a reflection of how much you and
the wider membership contribute, a
reminder of how much can be achieved
when we dedicate ourselves to working
together to maximise the benefit for people
living with HIV in the developing world.
Thank you for all you have done in 2011-12.
We very much look forward to working with
you in 2012-13.
Mike Podmore, Chair
Ben Simms, Director
The end of AIDS is not free.Nor is it too expensive,its priceless.Michael Sibidé Executive Directorof UNAIDS, July 2012
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We see the beginning of theend of the AIDS pandemic.Prime Minister David Cameron,March 2012
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The Consortium is a network of over 80
not-for-profit, faith-based and academic agencies.
Based in the UK, with strong links to governments,
international and multilateral agencies, the
Consortium has been working at the heart
of the response to HIV and AIDS since 1986.
Our vision is to promote an effective global respo-
nse to HIV and AIDS. Our mission is to encourage,
initiate and support collective action by
UK civil society.
We work with urgency to maintain UK leadership
in the response to HIV and AIDS. With 7 million
people still living without access to treatment,
and funding declining our message has never
been more urgent or necessary.
The Consortium achieves its impact through
its membership, which works directly with more
than 130 million people worldwide, and by
engaging decision-makers across the
governmental, non-governmental and
private sectors.
Who is the Consortium? What does it do?
WORKING TOGETHER AS A NETWORK
Our membership with theConsortium is helping usto raise the profile of HarmReduction with the widerinternational HIV/AIDSsector. The Consortiumalways strives to ensureit is meeting the needsof its members byproviding opportunitiesto meet with donors,building relationshipswith new partners andadvocating for the concernsof the membership.We are looking forwardto continuing ourwork together.
Maria Phelan,Harm ReductionInternational
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TIMELINE 2011-12
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The Consortium leads UKcivil society engagement atthe United Nations GeneralAssembly Twenty-sixthSpecial Session (UNGASS)
Evidence
Policy
Lobbying
Campaigning
JJUUNNEE
Launch of Consortium Stocktake Report
DFID publish Position Paper on HIV/AIDS
Quarterly meeting focuses on HarmReduction
JJUULLYY
Value for money meeting with DFIDand the World Bank at Birkbeck College
The UK Consortium becomes host ofthe HIV Code of Good Practice forNGOs responding to HIV and AIDS
Comic Relief present to members as part of our Donor Dialogue series
AAUUGGUUSSTT
Launch of TB/HIV Working Group
Stop AIDS Campaign hits World of Music Arts and Dance
SSEEPPTTEEMMBBEERRGareth Thomas MP speaks at our AGM
OOCCTTOOBBEERR
A United Voice papercompleted
Student Stop AIDSSpeakers’ Tour
Faith Working GroupLambeth PalaceConference and KeepingFaith publication
NNOOVVEEMMBBEERR
Faith Working Group focuses on faith healing
David Cairns Foundation appeal for SMUG hits £10K
DDEECCEEMMBBEERR
World AIDS Day focuses on the End of AIDS messaging
International Conference onAIDS and STIs in Africa takesplace in Ethiopia/Addis Ababa
Stop AIDS Campaign website launched
Johnson & Johnson targeted
JJAANNUUAARRYY
Launch of the new Consortium website
FFEEBBRRUUAARRYY
Investing in Communitiesto Achieve Results seminarwith World Bank and DFID
EU-India Free Trade Agreementprotest
Quarterly meeting on HIV and AIDS in prison.
Novartis demonstration
MMAARRCCHH
Stop AIDS Campaign day of action focuses on GlaxoSmithKline
Launch of 3 Policy briefsGirls and Women:Mainstreaming HIV andAIDS into DFID’s strategicvision, Fighting TB/HIVCo-infection, and PastDue: Remuneration and social protection for caregivers in thecontext of HIV and AIDS
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Death of David Cairns MP Chairof the APPG on HIV and AIDS
Understanding Communities’Contribution Paper release
The World Bank
Why join?Our members share a desire to increase
knowledge and understanding of HIV and AIDS
and to add their weight to the collective effort to
bring about an end to the epidemic. By uniting
with others, Consortium members are able to
access decision-makers, Government and
multilateral agencies. They are also able to
support a strong UK advocacy voice for Universal
Access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and
support. The Consortium offers great scope for
professional development.
Membership is open to all UK-based civil society organ i s ati ons that are concernedabout issues of HIV/AIDS and international develop ment. If you wish to become a member, contact the Consortium Secretariat at [email protected]
Our membership benefits thelives of over 130 million peopleworldwide, and is anoutstanding source of exper tiseon heal th and inte rn a t ionaldevelopment. In partnershipwith memb ers and externalagencies, and through hostingonline platforms that providereso u rces for best practice; the UK Consortium is at theforefront of developing evid -ence-based responses appro a -ch ed across its membership.
In Focus
In 2011-2012 the Consor tiumfacilitated dozens of regularmeetings with the WorkingGroups, became the host of theHIV Code of Good Practice, andmaintained the AIDSPortal. Weproduced a Stocktake Rep ort,partnered with the World Bankon the commu nity res ponse toHIV, with the Care and SupportWorking Groups on the devel op - ment of indi cators, and pur - sued our work on Value forMoney.
Early 2011 was a time
of sadness at the
Consortium. David
Kato of Sexual
Minorities Uganda
(SMUG) was brutally murdered in March and
in May, David Cairns MP, chair of the APPG
on HIV and AIDS, died of acute pancreatitis.
David’s partner, Dermot Kehoe, worked
tirelessly to establish the David Cairns
Foundation and adopted SMUG as one of its
first benefici aries. More than 150 people
attended the Foundation Thanksgiving
dinner. The Speak er of the House, John
Bercow, intro duced our End of AIDS
campaign video, talking moving ly about the
work of SMUG and David Cairns’ support for
LGBT rights. £10,000 was passed by the
Foundation to enable SMUG to estab lish the
first-ever medical facility for the LBGT
community in Kampala.
David Cairns:a tribute
At the beginning of the year the Consortium
published a Stocktake report to inform UK
engagement at the UN High Level Meeting
on AIDS in June 2011. Featuring the work
of many Consortium member agencies,
the report is both a celebration of what has
been achieved by our members, and
a reminder of why it is so important that we
maintain our focus and follow-through on
the commitments we have made. Published
to coincide with the 30th anniversary of
the identification of the HIV virus and with
the 25th anniversary of the Consortium,
the publication articulates the strengths
and comparative advantage of the UK Civil
Society response to HIV since 2001 and
provided a basis on which to organise our
advocacy messages at the HLM.
Our Stocktake Report
BUILDING EVIDENCE FOR GOOD PRACTICE
More than seventy people gathered in London
on February 15th/16th to study the findings
of a ground-breaking evaluation into the
impact communities have on the HIV and
AIDS response. Spearheaded by the World
Bank in partnership with DFID and the UK
Consortium, the evaluation, took place over
three years and included 11 studies from eight
countries. Its aim was to test the hypothesis
that a strong community response contributes
to a stronger national AIDS response
and improved AIDS-related outcomes.
The initial findings can be found in the
Interim Report, released in July 2011. The
Consortium is now working with delegates to
ensure the findings are utilised effectively,
by donors, multilateral agencies and civil
society itself. We are especially keen to draw
the links between the research and the
UNAIDS Strategic Investment Framework.
Investing in communities videos:
http://bit.ly/Un9npG
Investing in Communities to Achieve Results
I found the Evaluation of the Comm u -
n ity Response to HIV and AIDS that
the UK Consortium undertook extre -
mely useful. The section on reso urce
flows in particular, was directly rele v -
ant to my work with the Inter Age n cy
Task Team on Children Affec ted by
AIDS that was looking at mecha n isms
for improving the flow of reso u rces
to community based organisat ions
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Stuart Keane, World Vision International
David was an outstanding advocate
for people living with HIV, and
someone we got to know well through
his work as Chair of the APPG on
AIDS. He inspired support from all
corners of parliament. The AIDS
community has lost one of its most
talented parliamentary leaders
exactly at a moment when such
energy and leadership is needed
most. We will miss him deeply.
Ben Simms, Director,
UK Consortium on AIDS and
International Development
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Value for Money (VfM) in the AIDS response
The deepening global economic recession
has made the need to reflect on the value
for money of HIV/AIDS programming of UK
NGOs an even greater imperative.
The Consortium in partnership with the
International HIV/AIDS Alliance, initiated
several meetings on VfM. In July 2011, a
meeting focused on the structuring of VfM
discussions around the UNAIDS Strategic
Investment Framewo rk, with the emphasis
on community mobili s ation as a critical
enabler. Experts on methodologies, donors
and programme managers debated and
assessed costing, and measurement
challenges. The Consortium together with
the UK Mission to the UN hosted a VfM side
event meeting at the June 2011 High Level
meeting in New York where the
Consortium’s Director spoke alongside
Minister Stephen O’Brien. In November, the
“Making NGO development HIV/AIDS data
more accessible” meeting aimed at
encouraging NGOs to become more
transparent and making their data available
to both donors and beneficiaries.
BUILDING EVIDENCE FOR GOOD PRACTICE
Throughout the year, our Working Groups addressed core thematic areas: Care and Support Indicators
The Care and Support Indicators project is
part of the long-standing involvement of
the Care & Support Working Group (C&S
WG) in the development of quality indi -
cators on care and support. The project is
funded by DFID and The Diana, Princess of
Wales Memorial Fund. The set of indic ators
should cover all components of com p rehen -
sive care and support, caregivers, OVC and
palliative care and be used at national,
regionally and global level. The project is in
two phases – the first (comp leted in March
2012) uses a blanket appr oach to assess
current indicators – the sec ond uses other
relevant indicators for pilot ing.
FAITH WORKING GROUPPUBLICATION OF KEEPING FAITH REPORT
THE INFLUENCE OF FAITH HEALERS WORK WITH AHPN AND THE LONDON MAYOR’S OFFICE
TB/HIV WORKING GROUPSAVE AMILLIONLIVESEVENTGENDER WORKING GROUP
LOBBYING THE UK GOVERNMENT TOINCLUDE HIV IN THEIR CURRENT FOCUS
ON GIRLS AND WOMEN
THE IMPACT OF THE GLOBAL FUNDCRISIS ON WOMEN AND FAMILIES
CHILDRENAFFECTED BY AIDS WORKINGGROUPPSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT ACTIVITIES ON PMTCT
PREVEN
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STOP AIDS WORKING GROUP
HIV PREVENTION INPRISONS SPEAKERS
FROM POSITIVELY UK,HARM REDUCTION
INTERNATIONAL ANDTHE NATIONAL AIDS
TRUST
The report –
Keeping Faith withHIV was launched at
a conference at
Lambeth palace
on October the 10th
attended by HIV
experts from both
faith-based and secular organisations,
including: Progressio, CAFOD, Christian Aid,
INERELA+, International HIV Fund, Islamic
Relief, Tearfund, DFID and the World Bank.
Keeping Faith is a confident assertion of the
contribution made by faith-based
organisations (FBOs) to the challenges of
combating stigma and increasing access to
HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.
http://bit.ly/OSLxQB
Faith healing
This Coalition Government is taking a
tougher, more hard-headed approa ch
on getting value for money in aid.
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Andrew MitchellUK Secretary of State for International Development
The HIV Code of Good Practice
In July we were proud to become the host
of the HIV Code of Good Practice for NGOs
responding to HIV/AIDS. Developed by NGOs
for NGOs and with 478 signatories, the code
helps guide NGO work by providing
a framework to which they can commit and
be held accountable. Drawing on 20 years
of knowledge and experience, the Code sets
out key principles, practice and evidence base
required for successful responses to HIV.
This Code can be used to inspire organisat -
ional change; provide a framework for collab -
orative partnerships; and inform the devel -
opment, implementation and evaluation
of evidence-informed programmes
and advocacy.
http://www.hivcode.org/
The AIDSPortal
The AIDS Portal is a global initiative
that aims to facilitate greater knowledge
sharing and networking among organisations
involved in the response to HIV and AIDS.
The portal strives to promote a more efficient
and effective global response to HIV
and AIDS. With content available in more
than 50 languages, averaging 20,000 unique
visits each month, and a database
of Consortium member activities tool,
the AIDSPortal website is flourishing under
the moderation of Richard Walker and
with technical support from Kwantu.
http://www.aidsportal.org/
DFID greatly values the contribution
the UK Consortium has made
in leading strategic civil society
engag ement to advance important
issues, including strengthening the
evidence base on the community
response, sharpening the focus
on value for money, and integrating
HIV and SRH. The ability of
the Consortium to harness the
expertise, energy and voices of
a range of partners greatly enriches
the global response to HIV.
Anna Seymour, DFID
BUILDING EVIDENCE FOR GOOD PRACTICE
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“Providing online resources:
Consortium members play a leading role in formulatingpolicy. Our publications reflectpositions developed through our network of WorkingGroups, and serve as a sprin -gboard for engaging decision- makers in the UK and globa lly.We are a partner to mem b ersand other agencies in thedissemination of policy findingsand evidence-based research.
In Focus
In the past year, we broke newground in deve loping collectivedecisions to use policy tounderstand and engage with the UK Govern ment’s strategicvision and current priorities.We produced three policypapers focusing on integ ratingHIV within broader health and human rights responses. We have since been workingwith DFID’s staff to look at how these papers inform thedelivery and monit or ing of their commitments.
GUIDING INTERNATIONAL POLICY
Past Due:Remuneration and social Protection for caregivers in the context of HIV and AIDS
In sub-Saharan Africa, an estimated 90%
of care for people living with HIV and AIDS
is done in the home by family or community-
based caregivers. The policy paper considers
who caregivers are and the impact that their
work has at a personal, community and global
level. The briefing suggests models of remun -
eration that donors, national governments
and NGOs can use to compensate caregivers.
Girls and Women:Mainstreaming HIVand AIDS into DFID’sstrategic vision
This paper demonstrates
programmatic approaches
which DFID’s gender team could include
in the implementation of their Strategic
Vision programme of work to ensure
an effective HIV and AIDS response is
mainstreamed into their objectives. These
priorities areas are: delay the first pregnancy
and support safe childbirth; get economic
assets direct to girls and women; get girls
through secondary school and prevent
violence against women and girls.
Fighting TB/HIV Co-infection
In 2010, TB caused
an estimated 350,000
deaths among people
living with HIV, yet funding
commitments for TB and HIV are not being
met. Published to coincide with World TB
Day, the policy paper highlights the rationale
for TB/HIV integration, and illustrates how
DFID is supporting such integration at policy
and country programming level. It also
makes recommendations on how DFID could
further enhance this role and thus deliver
results across DFID’s strategic priorities.
Producing policy papers to understand and engage with the UK Government
Bringing TB/HIV Policy papersto life: Michael Gwaba
Michael Gwaba from Zambia is 43 years
old and lost both his fiancée and son
to AIDS-related illnesses within 6 months
of each other, one of which was TB in 1999.
In 2000 he tested HIV+ and was put
on antiretroviral treatment but relied
on family until he found free treatment
from a government hospital in 2005.
Now in good health, Michael is a member
of the communities delegation of the
Global Fund board and ambassador
of their Here I am Campaign, and travels
around the world advocating governments
to replenish the fund. Michael accom -
panied members of the TB-HIV Working
Group to a meeting with DFID where he
used his own experience to highlight the
findings of the TB/HIV Co-infection
policy paper.
POLICY BRIEFING
FIGHTING TB/HIV CO-INFECTION: REALISINGCOMMITMENTS THROUGH INTEGRATED PROGRAMMING
This policy paper is directly targeted at the UK Depart-
ment for International Development (DFID) country
programme managers and policy officials. In recent
years, DFID has made great steps towards the goal of
universal access and has played a pivotal role in driving
forward the response to HIV, including TB/HIV integra-
tion. The aim of this document is to highlight the
rationale for TB/HIV integration, illustrate how DFID is
supporting such integration at policy and country pro-
gramming level and to make recommendations for how
DFID could further enhance this role – illustrating how
this will ultimately deliver results across DFID’s strategic
priorities by:
• Strengthening health systems
• Reaching the poorest and most vulnerable
• Delivering value for money
• Saving the lives of women and girls
• Reinforcing DFID as a leader in international
development and research agendas
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CONTENTS
Rationale for TB/HIVintegration
Executive summary
Introduction
Challenges toTB/HIV integration
International commitmenttowards integration
DFID commitment towardsTB/HIV integration
Summary andrecommendations to DFID
DFID progressmeasurements
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Opportunities forgreater integration
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POLICY BRIEFING
PAST DUE: REMUNERATION AND SOCIAL PROTECTIONFOR CAREGIVERS IN THE CONTEXT OF HIV AND AIDS
March 2012
CONTENTS
Who are the caregivers?
Executive summary
The impact of the workof caregivers
The economic and socialcosts of unpaid caregiving
The personal, socialand political value ofperforming a caring role
Models of compensationfor caregivers
Value for money
Recommendations
The changing profileof community caregiversin the HIV response
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In sub-Saharan Africa, an estimated 90%of care for people living with HIV and AIDSis done in the home by family orcommunity-based caregivers.1
2011 brought groundbreaking advances in HIVprevention and treatment,2 which, if fully implemented,hold the hope that we can reach the goal of an AIDS-freegeneration. Community mobilisation and servicedelivery have been identified by the UNAIDS InvestmentFramework and its Treatment 2.0 agenda as centralstrategies in realising this goal. Family and communitycaregivers have been at the heart of the communityresponse to HIV since the beginning of the epidemic.Evidence has shown that the services they provide haveplayed a significant role in helping to scale upantiretroviral (ARV) treatment and tuberculosis (TB)therapy, as well as linking patients to care and testing.3
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Michael Gwamba
The policy paper developed by theCare and Support Working Groupthis year consolidated our positionon the issue, enabling us to engagepolicy and decision-makers on a global stage with our message that care workers should not beexploited for the vital work that theydo. It is a fabulous example of howmembers can use the Consortium to increase their impact.
Claire Morris, Help the Hospices,Co-chair of the Care and SupportWorking Group
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We recognise that we areentering a crucial stage in theAIDS response. Innovations in science, evidence-basedprogramming and financialinvestment have all reapedbenefits. More than 6 millionpeople are now receivingtreatment yet some nine millionpeople still don’t have access to it. With internationalattention shifting away fromHIV and funding decreasing, the role of the Consortium in keeping HIV on the political agenda has never been more important.
In Focus
The Consortium thereforeworks tirelessly to engagedecision-makers and securesustained UK leadership in the response to HIV and AIDSglobally looking in particular at human rights and gender,HIV and broader health, the role of communities and access to medicines.
LOBBYING TO KEEP AIDS ON THE POLITICAL AGENDA
The UK Consortium on AIDS andInternational Development plays a unique and critical role in bringing together a diverse range of organisations to ensure that HIVdoes not become yesterday’s storyand remains on the agenda of policymakers. As Chair of the All PartyParliamentary Group on HIV andAIDS, I have greatly appreciated the expertise of the Consortium andits working groups in highlightingthe key issues affecting people livingwith HIV across the world.
The Consortium and its members played a
prominent role at the HLM, which brought
together 3,000 delegates and including
30 Heads of State, Government and
Vice Presidents at the UN. The Consortium
formulated member-wide messages; supp -
orting member attendance; taking a seat as
part of the official UK delegation; co-hosting
a side-event with Minister Stephen O’Brien
on Value for Money; and complet ing our
Stocktake report examining the contribution
of UK civil society over the past ten years.
Consortium members had much to celebrate
when world leaders, including the UK
Government, recommitted to getting 15
million people on treatment by 2015.
Engaging with global leaders:the 2011 High Level Meetingon AIDS (HLM)
Membership contributions are used to part-
fund the APPG on HIV and AIDS, a back -
bench cross-party group of MPs and Peers in
the UK Par liament at Westminster. We have
held 9 public meetings with the APPG on
topics inclu ding the Global Fund, HIV/TB
coinfection, the PMCT and the challenges of
building a new nation in South Sudan. APPG
members have been highly active in defend -
ing the righ ts of key populations, in partic -
ular speak ing out against the abuses of
sexual minorities in Uganda.
Holding the UK Governmentaccountable:
In May, the Consortium engaged DFID
on the drafting of Towards zero infections:
The UK’s position paper on HIV in the
developing world, surveying members
to establish clear messages and providing
a platform for discussions with the DFID
AIDS & Reproductive Health Team.
The paper, which outlines the impact DFID
aims to achieve through its bi-lateral and
multi-lateral funding, is the main tool for
the Consortium in monitoring DFID’s role
as the world’s second largest donor on
HIV and AIDS.
Paper available at: http://bit.ly/Nfgpvi
Holding the UK Governmentto account: our response to DFID’s Position Paper on HIV and AIDS
Annie Lennox meets AndrewMitchell on World AIDS Day
Memory Sachikonye (i-Base), Chris Bain
(CAFOD) and Annie Lennox met with
Andrew Mitchell on behalf of the Stop AIDS
Campaign and Act V, calling on the UK
to lead the effort to bring an end to AIDS.
They presented a letter endorsed by over 30
organisations, as well as individuals such as
Desmond Tutu and Elton John.
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© Lindsay Mgbhor, DFID
Pamela Nash, Chair of the APPG
Through our Stop AIDSCampaign, the Consortiumharnesses the leadership of people living with HIV,our members, trade unionsand students across the UK,to raise awareness about theglobal epidemic and camp a -ign for urgently scaled-upinternational action.
In focus
This year again we havecon s istent ly battled to keepHIV at the heart of the UK’sinternational devel op mentagenda. We com m issionedthe End of AIDS video, part -i c ip ated at key internat ionalevents and championed therole of the Global Fund.
www.stopaidscampaign.org
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and
Malaria fell into crisis, when a lack of donors’
cash forced it, for the first time in its ten year
history, to cancel a new round of funding
(Round 11). Unable to scale up AIDS, TB or
malaria services until 2014 and currently
undergoing major reforms, the impact of the
crisis on lives could potentially be count ed in
the milli ons. The UK govern ment is one of
the few donors to have paid up what they
committed to deliver. How ever, despite the
‘very good value for money’ rating the
institution recei v ed in the Multilateral Aid
Review (MAR), a decis ion on a signifi cant
increase in the UK contribution is yet to be
announced. We maintained regular meetings
with Simon Bland, the Chair of the Fund,
organ ised a mass lobby of parliament arians
via the Student Stop AIDS Campaign and
submitted written evidence to the Inter -
national Development Select Committee.
Through campaign ing, links with
parliamentarians, and by working closely
with other groups includ ing ONE and
Malaria No More, the Consort ium is putting
pressure on the UK govern ment to increase
its contribution to the fund with urgency.
CAMPAIGNING
Our Stop AIDS Campaign Coordinator
travelled with Trunk Films to South Africa,
thanks to the support of the Open Society
Foundation, to make a campaign film high -
lighting the historic opportunity to end AIDS
within a generation. The powerful film gives
voice to people involved in the trial which
builds on the new evidence of treatment as
prevention. Those set to directly benefit from
the results tell the story.
http://stopaidscampaign.org/campaign/end
-to-aids/
Highlighting an historicopportunity: The End of AIDS film
Coordinating with USA colleagues we
pushed to replicate the Obama administ -
ration’s commitment to the new approach
with the UK government. A positive meet -
ing with DFID Secretary of State, Andrew
Mitchell resulted in a strong World AIDS
Day message from Deputy PM Nick Clegg
setting his sights on a world without AIDS.
When Prime Minister David Cameron
travelled to the USA to meet with Presid -
ent Obama in March 2012 they noted that
with “a renewed commitment to the life -
saving work of the Global Fund for AIDS,
TB and Malaria, we see the beginning
of the end of the AIDS pandemic.”
World AIDS Day 1.12.2011
World AIDS Day 2011
Supporting the InternationalResponse: The Global Fund in crisis
CAMPAIGNING
Real Story: Mohammed Barry, 20, Gambia
Mohammed was infected with HIV at the
age of seven, after he cut his head playing
football and was given infected blood by
doctors. Today, he portrays the young face
of the AIDS epidemic in Africa, advocating
openly for both access to treatment and the
protection and promotion of the rights and
welfare of People Living with HIV in Africa.
He is also a Co-founder of the Gambian
Treatment Action Group and serves on other
international treatment boards.
At the annual students’ speakers’ tour
Mohammed explained how his experiences
have empow er ed him to lobby and advocate
for social justice. He also spoke about
the inequalities in access to treatment
and urged pharma ceutical companies
to join the Medicines Patent Pool.Our campaigning efforts to deliver equitable
access to affordable medicines continued
to be fought on many fronts. With coordin -
ated efforts from international allies, MSF
and Sir Elton John, our network of student
activists supplemented incredible efforts.
Work on the Medicines Patent Pool continued
with the progress made when Gilead signed
the first licencing deal balanced by Johnson &
Johnson’s refusal to join negotiations. The
EU-India Free Trade Agree ment (FTA)
continues to loom on the horizon, with
European Commission negot iators contin -
uing to press for terms which would unde -
r mine India’s ability to produce generic
versions of life-saving HIV drugs. These
battles and others continue and the campaign
looks ahead into 2012 with a determination to
ensure the UK and the world do not allow the
chance to begin the end of the epidemic slip
away.
Fighting for Access to Medicines
Protest against EU-India Free Trade Agreement
Novartis demonstration
As a member I have greatlyappreciated the leadership that the Consortium has broughtparticularly on the issue of access to medicines. This has embraceddiscussing policy issues (e.g. withDFID) and implem enting some veryinnovative camp ai g ns directed at pharmac eutical companies to encourage them to enter intonegotiations with the MedicinesPatent Pool. In direct follow-updiscussions that I have had personallywith representatives from pharmac -eutical companies they have express -ed how impactful these campaignshave been – more so than from any other country.
David Deakin, Tearfund
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Protest outside Johnson & Johnson
EU India Free Trade Agreement (press coverage)
Patent pool Day of action March 2011
FINANCIAL REPORT AND WORD FROM OUR TREASURER
We would like to express ourthanks to the following for the confidence they showedin supporting our work in 2011-12:
The Department for Inter -national Development (DFID),The Monument Trust, The Open Society Institute,The Diana, Princess of WalesMe morial Fund, EC grant,GNP+.
The Trustees are pleased with the financial
performance of the Consortium this year.
The ability of Consortium staff to fully
spend the restricted grants that have been
received meant that reliance on unrestric -
ted sources of income to fund activities has
been reduced and enabled general reserves
to be increased this year. Indeed, the def ic -
it of £19k reflects the fact that restricted
in come received in previous years was
fully expended this year. The significant
fall in both income and expenditure this
year is due to the end of the successful
AIDSPortal project in the early part of
the year.
The Trustees are pleased that the contin -
ued hard work of all of the staff was
succ ess ful in building new and diversified
forms of funding from a variety of sources.
Income from memberships was in line
with budget, significant funds were
brought in from consultancy and new
grant relationships continued to be devel -
oped. With the ending of the DFID core
funding during the year, it is impor tant
that these sources of income are main -
tained and strengthened. The Trustees are
also pleased that expenditure on staff and
office costs was in line with the budget.
Looking ahead, whilst the positive finan -
cial performance in 2011-12 has allowed
invest ment to be made in the new financial
year, we are still operating in a very chall -
en ging environment and as such it is
crucial that fundraising efforts continue to
be a priority for all at the Consortium.
Phil Robinson, Treasurer
This summarised statement of income and expenditure for April 2011 – March 2012 is extracted from the fullannual accounts for thisperiod, and does not containsufficient informa tion fora full under standing of the financial affairs of The Consortium. The full version, and an Inde pen- dent Examination report can be obtained from The Consortium.
Turnover for this period was£472,147.
This includes funds fromgrant making trusts andnational government.Monies from Member shipfees accounted or 22% of total income, showing a small increase from the previous year.
Total expenditure for thisperiod was £472,147.
APPGA
CARE & SUPPORT
UNHLM
STOP AIDS CAMPAIGN
AIDS PORTAL
USING THE LESSONS FROM HIV RESPONSE
EVALUATION OF THE COMMUNITY RESPONSE
GOVERNANCE
MEMBERSHIP SUPPORT & ADVOCACY
TOTAL SPEND
ACTIVITY TOTALSPEND (£)
32,665
80,812
16,675
112,215
82,715
51,880
21,578
1,800,
400, 340
71,807
472,147
CONTRIBUTIONS FROM MEMBERS AND OBSERVERS
22%
DONATION
S 3%
GRAN
TS AND
CONTRA
CTS 75%
EXPENDITURE
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PEOPLE
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Ben Simms, Director
Diarmaid McDonald, Stop AIDS Campaign Coordinator
Samantha Wilkinson, Office Manager (until Novermber 2011)
Sophia SahliOffice Manager (from Novermber 2011)
Richard Walker,Communications Manager (until August 2011)
Joanna Allan, Working Group Coordinator (September – December 2011)
Deborah Laycock, Working Group Coordinator (from January 2011)
Heather Alcock, Policy Adviser All Party ParliamentaryGroup on HIV and AIDS
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Rebecca McDowall
Eleanor Jeffreys
Jessica Hopf
Jessica Drury
Philippa West
Marie-Ophélie Sarrade
TTRRUUSSTTEEEESS
Rhon ReynoldsIAVIResigned February 2012
Dieneke ter Huurne (Chair)IPPFUntil September 2011
Dermott McDonald (Treasurer)Mildmay InternationalUntil September 2011
Catherine MugeUNICEFEUntil September 2011
Eunice SinemeyuAHPNResigned December 2011
TTRRUUSSTTEEEESS
Mike Podmore (Chair)HIV/AIDS AllianceElected 2010
Nikki Jeffrey (Vice-Chair)Target TBElected 2010
Nina O’FarrellChristian AidElected 2010
TTRRUUSSTTEEEESS
Ian GovinderAIDS OrphanElected September 2011
Jessie WaldmanRestless DevelopmentElected September 2011
Robin Gornamothers2mothersElected September 2011
Silvia PetrettiPositively UKCo-opted September 2011
Phil Robinson (Treasurer)Co-opted September 2011
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We would like to thank Marie-Ophélie Sarrade for heroutstanding contribution to ourwork during her six-monthsinternship and for projectmanaging the production andwriting of this Annual Review.
We would also like to express our thanks to Nick Keeble, whoundertook a six months consul -tancy with the Consortium duringthis year.
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