UNAIDS: Denmark to increase financial contribution to UNAIDS by one third “…Denmark will increase its contribution to UNAIDS to US$ 6.5 million in 2018 (from 30 million kroner in 2017 to 40 million kroner in 2018). … Denmark is one of the leading donors to UNAIDS and is championing efforts towards…

Devex: U.K. Foreign Office among least transparent aid donors globally, study finds “The United Kingdom’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office is among the worst performing aid donors globally when it comes to transparency, ranking 40th out of 45 donors assessed in the latest edition of the Aid Transparency Index. The department…

POLITICO Pro: Draft TB declaration: U.S., E.U. push against funding, delinkage pledges “The E.U. and U.S. are resisting concrete commitments on new funding for tuberculosis ahead of a high-level U.N. meeting about fighting the world’s top infectious killer. The two regions are also pushing to eliminate language that would urge…

Reuters: E.U. backs plan to tackle antimicrobial resistance “E.U. member states backed a plan on Wednesday to combat antimicrobial resistance, an increasing global health issue, that would reduce the use of antibiotics in the food chain and limit certain drugs to humans…” (Echikson, 6/13).

UNDP: UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA, and U.N. Women Welcome Sweden’s Multi-Year Commitment to Core Funding “UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA, and U.N. Women welcome with appreciation the Government of Sweden’s decision to enter into multi-year core funding agreements with our agencies. These will enhance our ability to fulfill our mandates and carry out…

PBS NewsHour: 1 million Russians are HIV-positive, but only a third get treatment “Russia’s HIV epidemic is growing by 10 percent per year, and yet many proven HIV prevention and treatment strategies aren’t being used. William Brangham and Jason Kane report in collaboration with Jon Cohen of Science Magazine and…

PBS NewsHour: The End Of AIDS: Far From Over “The tools exist. HIV/AIDS can be treated and contained. But in many communities, social, political and economic obstacles get in the way. There, the epidemic is far from over.” The series will examine HIV/AIDS in Russia, Nigeria, and the U.S. state…

Devex: Opinion: E.U. can stop the global rollback of girls’ rights Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen, CEO of Plan International “…Girls’ rights are being challenged in so many countries in the world — even in Europe. It’s part of a general roll-back on human rights and a shrinking space for civil society. ……

Center for Global Development: Aid in the National Interest: When is Development Cooperation Win-Win? Owen Barder, vice president and director of CGD Europe and senior fellow at CGD, “identifies which types of development cooperation can be win-win, and which types of aid are seriously undermined by efforts to pursue the…

Devex: U.K. aid ‘brand’ at risk from cross-government funds, says IDC report “Official development assistance spent outside the Department for International Development — which is set to rise to 30 percent within the next two years — is less transparent, less coherent, and less poverty-focused than aid spent by DFID,…