A Quiet Exodus: Funders Exit HIV Giving Even as Equity Gaps Grow

A Quiet Exodus: Funders Exit HIV Giving Even as Equity Gaps Grow

For World AIDS Day, guest authors Athena Cross, Carl Baloney and Jesse Milan Jr. call attention to diminishing HIV-related philanthropic support, despite prevailing racial equity gaps in diagnoses and treatment.

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A Local Foundation, a Little-Known College, and a Potential HIV and Cancer Breakthrough

A Local Foundation, a Little-Known College, and a Potential HIV and Cancer Breakthrough

The Engelstad Foundation supported Touro University Nevada's lone biomedical lab when few other funders would. A recent discovery there could lead to new treatments for HIV, and even cancer, Alzheimer’s and more.

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Gates Remains Among the Few in Philanthropy to Drive Research for an HIV Vaccine

Gates Remains Among the Few in Philanthropy to Drive Research for an HIV Vaccine

Philanthropy makes up only a small fraction of spending on research and support for people with HIV, still a major threat around the world. In the push for a vaccine, Gates and Gilead are leading the pack.

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Two Longstanding Partners Seed a New Fund to Stem the Rise of HIV Transmission

Two Longstanding Partners Seed a New Fund to Stem the Rise of HIV Transmission

To bolster the world’s flagging campaign to halt HIV transmission, two funds have joined forces on a new effort to support the delivery of preventative medicine in up to five African countries.

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Philanthropy Must Harness This Year as a Tipping Point for Global Health

Philanthropy Must Harness This Year as a Tipping Point for Global Health

In this guest post, Chris Hohn, founder of Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, encourages fellow funders to seize on a critical moment for global health, pointing to an $18 billion fundraising effort underway.

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Nine Questions for Clarisse Machanguana, Former WNBA Player

Nine Questions for Clarisse Machanguana, Former WNBA Player

We sit down with former WNBA player Clarisse Machanguana, Mozambique’s most storied basketball player. She talks about going back home to start a foundation focused on girls and youth, and why she’s back in the U.S.

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A Leading Global Funder Helps Unlock the Power of HIV Self-Testing

   A Leading Global Funder Helps Unlock the Power of HIV Self-Testing

Sub-Saharan Africa has the largest number of people who don’t know their HIV status, putting themselves and others at risk. HIV self-testing is one way to change that, and this solution is drawing big grant money from CIFF.

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An Early Corporate Leader in Funding LGBTQ Issues Marches On

An Early Corporate Leader in Funding LGBTQ Issues Marches On

The Levi Strauss Foundation, an early funder in the fight against HIV/AIDS, continues to step up in changing times, meeting a roll-back of hard fought gains in the areas of diversity and inclusion with expanded support for the trans community. 

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One of the Most Stalwart Funders of LGBTQ Causes? Corporate America

One of the Most Stalwart Funders of LGBTQ Causes? Corporate America

Corporate grant support has soared, more than tripling since 2012. But major companies back LGBTQ communities in many other ways, too. We look at the big picture of this giving, along with the bottom-line considerations that drive it.

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Hot Zone: How a Drugmaker is Taking on HIV/AIDS in the South

Hot Zone: How a Drugmaker is Taking on HIV/AIDS in the South

Gilead Sciences is a leading player in HIV/AIDS funding in the U.S. South, with a major grantmaking program aimed at tackling an epidemic that’s still raging in this part of the country. Where’s the money going?

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Out of the Shadows: What Philanthropy is Doing to Support Sex Worker Movements Around the World

Out of the Shadows: What Philanthropy is Doing to Support Sex Worker Movements Around the World

While sex work or trafficking occasionally make headlines, sex workers and their rights have been largely ignored by the public and by philanthropy. But new funding movements, giving circles, and collaboratives are seeking to change that.

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A Closer Look at How the Oklahoma AIDS Care Fund Makes Grants

A Closer Look at How the Oklahoma AIDS Care Fund Makes Grants

Jackie Cooper was a successful businessman but was just as well known for his dedication to the issue of HIV/AIDS. Here’s how the fund that he and his wife established gives in Oklahoma.

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Deadly Parallels: HIV/AIDS Funders Bring Hard-Learned Lessons to the Opioid Crisis

Deadly Parallels: HIV/AIDS Funders Bring Hard-Learned Lessons to the Opioid Crisis

It’s a public health scourge that’s ravaging marginalized groups while elected officials dither. That sounds awfully familiar, which is why HIV/AIDS funders have a lot to share when it comes to the opioid crisis.

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Positive: How a New Initiative Aims to Help Women of Color With HIV

Positive: How a New Initiative Aims to Help Women of Color With HIV

Women of color account for 80 percent of new HIV diagnoses. But stigma and isolation can make it uniquely difficult for these women to get treatment. A pharma funder is working the problem. 

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Gates is Still Gunning for HIV. Here’s the Latest

Gates is Still Gunning for HIV. Here’s the Latest

HIV/AIDS isn't the compelling global cause it once was. But the Gates Foundation has stuck with this challenge for years. Among other things, it's in hot pursuit of cheaper and faster diagnostic tests.  

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