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UK Members of parliament visit Unitaid Secretariat

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Left to right: Stephen Twigg, Baroness Sheehan, Kate Osamor, David Mackintosh, Paul Scully. (Image: Unitaid)

GENEVA, 30 March 2017 - A cross-party group of four Members of Parliament and a Baroness from the United Kingdom visited the Secretariat on Thursday for briefings on Unitaid’s strategy, finances, partnerships, and the scope and impact of its grant portfolio.

The group of UK parliamentarians included Kate Osamor, Labour, who is Shadow Secretary of State for International Development and a Junior Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities; Stephen Twigg, Labour, who chairs the International Development Committee, which scrutinized the UK Department for International Development; Paul Scully, Conservative, who is a member of the International Development Committee; David Mackintosh, a Conservative who supports the work of Malaria No More; and Baroness Sheehan, a member of the House of Lords and Liberal Democrat spokesperson for International Development. 

The UK helped to found Unitaid and is its second-largest donor.

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Unitaid drives efforts to end TB by developing new treatments and diagnostics

Geneva, 24 March 2017 - On World TB Day, Unitaid joins the World Health Organization in its efforts to mobilize countries and partners to “Unite to end Tuberculosis”. This year’s focus is on the stigma, discrimination and marginalization that many people with tuberculosis (TB) in low-income countries face.

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UNITAID invites proposals that help countries use trade rules to increase access to drugs

GENEVA,  Feb 20 – Unitaid launched a new call for proposals to help countries take advantage of provisions under global intellectual property rules that allow increased access to affordable medicines in order to safeguard public health.

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Unitaid Chair welcomes amendment to IP rules to ease access of poor countries to medicines

GENEVA, 26 January – Unitaid’s Chair Celso Amorim strongly welcomed an amendment to World Trade Organization (WTO) rules on intellectual property rights that seeks to ease access by poorer WTO member countries to affordable generic medicines.

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UNITAID calls for proposals to scale up HIV self-testing

GENEVA, 17 January - UNITAID is calling for proposals to create and accelerate the demand for and adoption of HIV self-testing (HIVST) in low and middle-income countries, particularly among underserved populations at high risk of HIV infection.

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