Strengthening the Global and Regional Fight against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
The Symposium, Strengthening the Global and Regional Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, co-sponsored by Pacific Friends of the Global Fund, AusAID and the Lowy Institute for International Policy, was held at the Lowy Institute in Sydney on 24 February 2009.
Presentations by Dr Michel Kazatchkine (pictured) and The Hon Bob McMullan MP can be heard here:
Strengthening the Global and Regional Fight against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria - MP3 (24MB)
Dr Michel Kazatchkine's speaker support is available for download here:
Strengthening the Global and Regional Fight against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria - PPT (12MB)
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| New advocacy organisation for the Global Fund |
The launch of Pacific Friends of the Global Fund On 23 February 2009, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Lowy Institute for International Policy launched Pacific Friends of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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| Friends of the Global Fund Pacific |
Friends of the Global Fund Pacific to be established with the support of the Lowy Institute for International Policy and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The Lowy Institute for International Policy, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will support the Global Fund to Fights AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as it promotes additional lifesaving programs in the Pacific region.
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The deadbeat of international aid
Director of the Lowy Institute's HIV/AIDS project, Bill Bowtell, argues that Australia and other western nations spend too little on overseas development assistance, with serious consequences for disease control in developing nations and the risk of global pandemics.
The Sydney Morning Herald, 28 April 2009, p. 11
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Professor Michel Kazatchkine at the Lowy Institute
The Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Professor Michel Kazatchkine, was guest of honour at a Lowy Institute dinner held on Thursday 17 July 2008. Professor Kazatchkine was in Australia with his colleagues Helen Evans, Deputy Executive Director and Dr Christoph Benn, the Fund's external relations director, to meet senior Australian ministers and AusAID officials. On Friday 20 July, Professor Kazatchkine met Foreign Minister Stephen Smith to explore future cooperation between the Global Fund and the new Australian government. Before he left Sydney, Dr Kazatchkine visited drug outreach services in Darlinghurst and met community representatives involved in delivering HIV/AIDS care, treatment and prevention services.
Pictured: Professor Michel Kazatchkine (left) and Dr Christoph Benn at the Lowy Institute.
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Bill Bowtell on shortlist for literary award
Bill Bowtell, Director of the Lowy Institute's HIV/AIDS Project, has been shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards in the Science Writer section for his essay entitled 'Applying the paradox of prevention: eradicate HIV' which was published in the Spring 2007 issue of Griffith Review.
For more information, please see: http://www.premiers.qld.gov.au/awardsevents/awards/Queensland_Premiers_Literary_awards/2008_Shortlist/
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From Okinawa to Toyako: Dealing with Communicable Diseases as Global Human Security Threats
On May 23 and 24 2008, the Japanese government, the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) and the Friends of the Global Fund Japan (FGFJ) co-hosted an important Symposium in Tokyo : 'From Okinawa to Toyako: Dealing with Communicable Diseases as Global Human Security Threats'.
The Symposium was held in the lead-up to the forthcoming G8 Summit, to be held in Toyako, Japan and next week's Tokyo summit meeting of some 40 heads of African governments (TICAD IV).
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Dr Peter Piot presentation
On 23 May 2008, at the Tokyo Symposium on International Health Security and Communicable Diseases, the Executive Director of UNAIDS gave a comprehensive and compelling outline of the current situation regarding the HIV pandemic and associated issues. Dr Piot has kindly agreed to allow the Lowy Institute to put his resentation up on our site.
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Opening Remarks by H.E. Mr. Yasuo Fukuda
Opening Remarks by H.E. Mr. Yasuo Fukuda, Prime Minister of Japan, on the Occasion of 'From Okinawa to Toyako: Dealing with Communicable Diseases as Global Human Security Threats', May 23, 2008, Tokyo, Japan
can be read here:
http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/health_c/remark0805.html
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Human security and a new vision for three major infectious diseases
A speech given at the Symposium by Mme Sadako Ogata, the President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) can be found here:
http://www.jica.go.jp/english/about/speeches/symposium.html
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Rampant: how a city stopped a plague
The Director of the Lowy Institute's HIV/AIDS Project, Bill Bowtell, features in the ABC television documentary 'Rampant: how a city stopped a plague' which was shown on ABC TV at 8.30 pm on Monday 3 December 2007. 'Rampant' is the story of AIDS in Australia, and how our response to the disease - so radically different to that in the USA and other countries with conservative governments - made us world leaders in controlling the virus, which had the potential to become a plague. More details are at: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/netw/200712/programs/ZY9056A001D3122007T203000.htm
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AIDS: no time for complacency
Bill Bowtell, Director of the Lowy Institute's Asia Pacific HIV Project, published an article in the ABC's online magazine, Unleashed, on 3 December 2007. The article can be downloaded here.
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Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
The second voluntary replenishment conference for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was held in Berlin between 26 and 28 September 2007.
The conference was attended by over fifty major government and private sector donors, civil society and United Nations partner organisations including UNAIDS. Indicating its importance, the conference was chaired by former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan and opened by the German Chancellor, Mme Angela Merkel.
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Interview: Bill Bowtell
Bill Bowtell, Director of the Lowy Institute's HIV/AIDS Project, was interviewed on Radio Adelaide about the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.
The interview can be heard at:
http://www.backstory.org.au/programs.html
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Australia pledges support to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria
Alexander Downer, Minister for Foreign Affairs, announced Australia's new pledge to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: $93 million over two years from 2008-09, building on the $42 million already committed this year. The Minister's media release is attached.
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Introducing... HIV/AIDS
In a presentation at the State Library of Queensland, Bill Bowtell, Director of the Lowy Institute's HIV/AIDS Project, revisited Australia's successes in containing HIV/AIDS and introduced the idea of a renewed threat on our doorstep which could destabilise the Asia-Pacific region.
The presentation can be heard at:
http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/find/webcasts/all?SQ_DESIGN_NAME=printer_friendly
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Article in Japan Focus
Japan Focus published an article on the looming Asia Pacific HIV/AIDS pandemic by Bill Bowtell, Director of the HIV/AIDS Project at the Lowy Institute.
The article is available at: http://japanfocus.org/products/details/2527
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Deadly failure of nerve
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Bill Bowtell, Director of the Lowy Institute's HIV/AIDS Project, argues that medical advances in treating HIV are helping many but only better prevention policies can save millions more from infection.
This is an edited extract from 'Applying the paradox of prevention: eradicate HIV', in the Spring 2007 issue of Griffith Review (www.griffith.edu.au/griffithreview)
The Australian, 28 July 2007, p. 26
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Bill Bowtell: Evidence to Joint Standing Committee
Bill Bowtell, Director of the Lowy Institute's HIV/AIDS Project, gave evidence to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade's Inquiry into Australia's aid program in the Pacific.
The report is available here.
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Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Sir Richard Feachem presentation
On 16 May at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Sir Richard Feachem reflected on his term at the Global Fund and whether the Global Fund PPP model might be more broadly applied across the spectrum of development assistance finance and program delivery.
The Global Fund was established in 2002 as a radical departure from previous multilateral development assistance agencies. It is a Public Private Partnership (PPP) tasked with administering and allocating funds provided by both governments and private sector donors to countries to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
His presentation can be heard here:
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AIDS struggle moves from treatment to prevention
In this opinion piece, Bill Bowtell, Director of the HIV/AIDS Project at the Lowy Institute, argues that a full range of strategies must be deployed to halt the rate of global HIV infection.
The Australian, 23 July 2007, p. 16
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HIV/AIDS: The looming Asia Pacific pandemic
In a Policy Brief on HIV/AIDS in the Asia Pacific, Bill Bowtell calls for both a doubling of global funding for the response to the HIV pandemic, and a radical overhaul of strategies that have not brought the global pandemic under control. He proposes that the international community must commit itself to the eradication of HIV/AIDS by the end of the 21st century. Australia is well placed to increase its already significant contribution to the fight against HIV/AIDS in the region, and especially in the south Pacific and Melanesia.
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There is no need to change HIV-risk immigration policy
In this article in The Australian, Bill Bowtell argues that there is no need to change Australia's present HIV immigration laws, and the flexible and tolerant way they have been applied to allow the immigration of some people with HIV.
The Australian, 21 April 2007, Health section, p. 21
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AIDS: the message has gone missing
Kamahl Cogdon writes that the Grim Reaper message saved thousands of Australians from AIDS, but young people are ignorant of the dangers, and quotes Bill Bowtell, the Director of the Lowy Institute's HIV/AIDS Project.
The Grim Reaper ad can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U219eUIZ7Qo
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Interviews: Bill Bowtell
Bill Bowtell, Director of the Lowy Institute's HIV/AIDS Project, was interviewed by several radio and television stations on the 20th anniversary of the Grim Reaper TV ads which were screened as part of Australia's first national AIDS education campaign. Bill is pictured speaking at the ceremony marking the anniversary of the iconic 1987 campaign. The event was held on April 5, 2007.
ABC 891 Afternoons program, 3 April 2007;
ABC 720 (Perth) Morning program, 5 April 2007;
2CC (Canberra) The Drive Show, 5 April 2007;
6PR (Perth) Morning program, 5 April 2007;
Channel Ten News, 5 April 2007.
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Interview: Bill Bowtell
Bill Bowtell, Director of the HIV/AIDS Project at the Lowy Institute, was interviewed by Fran Kelly on ABC Radio's Breakfast program about the anti-AIDS campaign throughout Australia, on the 20th anniversary of the Grim Reaper advertisement.
The interview can be heard at: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/stories/2007/1890357.htm
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Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Bill Bowtell presentation
At the Wednesday Lowy Lunch on 7 March 2007, Bill Bowtell, the Director of the Institute’s HIV/AIDS Project, explained how and why the HIV/AIDS pandemic developed, the severe regional consequences and costs if it is not checked, and the need to rethink current international HIV/AIDS strategies.
His presentation is available here:
HIV/AIDS - MP3 (20MB)
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The grim legacy of a landmark campaign
Harley Dennett writes on the Grim Reaper AIDS awareness campaign of 1987 and quotes Bill Bowtell of the Lowy Institute's HIV/AIDS Project.
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Radio interviews: Bill Bowtell
On the 20th anniversary of the Grim Reaper anti-AIDS campaign, Bill Bowtell, Director of the HIV/AIDS Project at the Lowy Institute, was interviewed on Radio 2GB and Radio 2SM.
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Interview: Bill Bowtell
Bill Bowtell, Director of the HIV/AIDS Project at the Lowy Institute, was interviewed by Geraldine Doogue on Saturday Extra on 17 February 2007 on the subject of the AIDS crisis in Papua New Guinea. The interview can be heard at: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/saturdayextra/stories/...
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Interview: Bill Bowtell
The recent decision by the Thai government to break patent on the HIV/AIDS drug Kaletra caused friction between the international pharmaceutical industry and the United States and Thai governments.
On 5 February 2007, Australia’s ABC Radio National Breakfast interviewed Bill Bowtell about the ramifications of the Thai government's decision, and the overall role of antitretroviral therapies in the response to the HIV pandemic.
The interview can be heard at: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/stories/2007/1840137.htm
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Interview: Bill Bowtell on Late Night Live
Billl Bowtell, Director of the Lowy Institute's HIV/AIDS Project, was interviewed by Phillip Adams on Late Night Live on 7 March on the looming HIV/AIDS pandemic in the Asia Pacific, the subject of his Lowy Institute Policy Brief downloadable at: http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=542
The interview can be heard at:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2007/1865777.htm
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The killer catching a ride with HIV
In this op-ed appearing in the Sydney Morning Herald on 21 September 2006, Bill Bowtell warns that the recent emergence of extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) also has ominous implications for the control and management of the HIV pandemic, especially in the Asia Pacific. XDR-TB poses a grave potential threat to the 50 million people currently living with HIV/AIDS. The distribution of HIV anti-retrovirals is only a short-term response to the pandemic. He calls for further moblilisation of resources aimed at HIV prevention with the ultimate goal of eradicating the disease. In the same issue, the Sydney Morning Herald also carried a companion feature article “TB’s extreme new face” by health reporter Ruth Pollard.
Sydney Morning Herald, 21 September 2006, p. 17
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The Global Fund in Cambodia
On 13 December 2006, H.E. Professor Eng Hout , Cambodian Secretary of State for Health, received a delegation organised by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to visit projects supported by the Fund in Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia.
Bill Bowtell was a member of the Global Fund delegation and, with the delegation, met Professor Eng Hout in Phnom Penh.
Cambodia is almost alone among developing nations in recording a substantial decrease in HIV prevalence over the past decade. It has done so by innovative and imaginative campaigns to promote 100% condom use both for the general population and among sex workers.
The Global Fund has assisted the Cambodian government and several NGOs to enhance the coverage of high-quality programs and services covering all aspects of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment, as well as the emerging problems of increased tuberculosis caseload.
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New TB strain compounds HIV pandemic
Bill Bowtell writes on the serious implications of the emergence of extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis in HIV-positive populations in Africa, eastern Europe and the United States.
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Toronto: Talkfest or action plan?
The just-concluded Toronto AIDS Conference was held in the 25th anniversary year of the identification of the HIV virus.
After many years of drift and chaos in the management of the response to HIV/AIDS, there were encouraging signs at Toronto of the emergence of a coherent and unified global strategy to combat the HIV pandemic across the spectrum of HIV prevention, care, treatment and research. There are encouraging signs that the many billions of dollars invested in HIV research will shortly bring forward a range of cheap, effective and practical biomedical prevention technologies. However, the HIV pandemic in the Asia Pacific region is worsening by the month, and the unanswered question after Toronto is whether new strategic unity and increased funding will make the necessary difference on the ground to avert millions of new HIV infections and deaths from AIDS.
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The second wave of HIV/AIDS
Australia has much to offer in the global campaign to contain HIV/AIDS, writes Bill Bowtell, and at the forefront of this campaign is the (perhaps unexpected) figure of Alexander Downer.
Newmatilda.com, 5 July 2006
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AIDS in East Asia
Bill Bowtell, Director of the HIV/AIDS Project at the Lowy Institute, was interviewed by Fran Kelly on Radio National's Breakfast program on 11 July about Australian skill and innovation being employed in Asia to avert what is fast becoming an HIV epidemic.
The interview can be heard at: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/brkfast/
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Briefing at PICP Conference
Together with Mr Alistair MacDonald, Program Manager on HIV/AIDS for the PICP Secretariat, Bill Bowtell, Director of the HIV/AIDS Project, briefed the annual meeting of Pacific Islands Police Commissioners (PICP) on HIV/AIDS issues at their 35th Annual Conference held at Koror, Palau between 27-31 July 2006.
The PICP has entered into an agreement with UNAIDS to develop a regional program on HIV/AIDS awareness to police services in the Pacific. This program is the first regional program on HIV/AIDS awareness delivered to a disciplined service. The 2 year program, funded by UNAIDS, AusAID and NZAID will provide awareness and training to serving police members in the region and will assist Chiefs of Police to take a lead on HIV/AIDS issues both in their communities and regionally.
Bill Bowtell is pictured with Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty.
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Australia's response to HIV-AIDS 1982-2005
This paper was presented by Bill Bowtell, a senior research associate at the Lowy Institute, at the 'Commemorative Symposium on the Fifth Anniversary of the Okinawa Summit: East Asian Regional Response to HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria' held in Tokyo on June 30, 2005. A revised version of the paper will be part of a forthcoming publication due to be published in October 2005 by Friends of the Global Fund, Japan (FGFJ), which has its secretariat at the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE).
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Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Bill Bowtell
On 8 March at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Bill Bowtell discussed the newly formed Asia-Pacific Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS chaired by Qantas’ Margaret Jackson.
The Asia-Pacific region is a new epicentre in the global fight against AIDS with leading regional powers like India and small relatively isolated countries like Papua New Guinea on the front line. HIV/AIDS poses serious problems for businesses operating in the region while these very businesses offer unique resources, particularly in distribution and awareness building, which are crucial to stopping the spread of the disease.
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Memorandum of Understanding signed
On 22 February, the Lowy Institute for International Policy and AusAID co-hosted a function in Sydney at which President Bill Clinton, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, Lowy Institute Chairman Mr Frank Lowy AC and the Chairman of the Asia Pacific Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS and Chairman of Qantas, Ms Margaret Jackson AC announced significant steps to bolster the Asia Pacific’s response to HIV/AIDS. A top-level audience of Australian business leaders heard President Clinton speak eloquently about the need for a more urgent response to the spread of HIV/AIDS in the region. President Clinton and Minister Downer signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the Clinton Foundation and AusAID that will extend the provision of anti-retroviral therapies to China, Vietnam and Papua New Guinea.
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Help thy neighbour
This article reports on the partnership between the Australian government and the Clinton Foundation, a global body set up by the former American president to fight AIDS, and on the Asia Pacific Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, an initiative of a partnership between the Australian Government/AusAID and the Lowy Institute for International Policy.
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Launch of the Asia Pacific Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS
On 22 February, Mr Downer officially launched the Asia Pacific Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS. This initiative, which has evolved out of a partnership between the Australian Government and the Lowy Institute for International Policy, recognises the long-term threat that HIV/AIDS poses for Australian business. The Asia Pacific Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS will be chaired by Ms Margaret Jackson AC, the Chairman of Qantas. Ms Jackson spoke on the need for business to use its energies and skills especially in the field of HIV prevention and education.
More details on the new partnerships against HIV/AIDS are available on the AusAID website at: http://www.ausaid.gov.au/hottopics/
Transcripts of speeches by Mr Frank Lowy AC and Ms Margaret Jackson AC are available here.
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