Funding future jobs | ITWeb

Funding future jobs | ITWeb

Evan Jones, Collective X South Africans have become accustomed to bad news, particularly around the country’s dismal unemployment figures. It was around 32.9% in the first quarter of this year, up from 31.9% in Q4 2024, according to Stats SA. The picture is dire for those aged between 15 and 34, and in this segment,…

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Africa: Momentum Builds For Long-Acting HIV Solutions As IAS 2025 Spotlights Scientific Progress, Funding Challenges And Leaders’ Calls To Action

Africa: Momentum Builds For Long-Acting HIV Solutions As IAS 2025 Spotlights Scientific Progress, Funding Challenges And Leaders’ Calls To Action

New WHO guidelines endorse long-acting injectable lenacapavir for HIV prevention, Medicines Patent Pool expands licence for long-acting injectable cabotegravir for treatment, and Merck’s once-monthly oral pill MK-8527 advances to Phase 3 trials in Africa  14 July 2025 (Kigali, Rwanda)  – IAS 2025, the 13th IAS Conference on HIV Science, opened today with a call to accelerate…

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Africa: Fight to End Aids – ‘This Is Not Just a Funding Gap – It’s a Ticking Time Bomb’

Africa: Fight to End Aids – ‘This Is Not Just a Funding Gap – It’s a Ticking Time Bomb’

Devastating funding cuts from international donors are hitting countries hardest affected by HIV — but many are showing remarkable resilience and determination to keep progress alive. The 2025 Global AIDS Update released on Thursday by UNAIDS – the global body’s agency fighting AIDS and HIV infection – warns that a historic funding crisis now threatens…

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Africa: Fight to End Aids – ‘This Is Not Just a Funding Gap – It’s a Ticking Time Bomb’

Africa: Countries Must Urgently Step Up to Transform their HIV Responses Amid An International Funding Crisis That Risks Millions of Lives

GENEVA/JOHANNESBURG – UNAIDS today launched its 2025 Global AIDS Update, AIDS, Crisis and the Power to Transform, which shows that a historic funding crisis is threatening to unravel decades of progress unless countries can make radical shifts to HIV programming and funding. The report highlights the impact that the sudden, large-scale funding cuts from international donors are…

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Digitised bridging funding speeds up property deals

Digitised bridging funding speeds up property deals

Michael Lenz, CEO of TransBridj. Digitised bridging funding is set to shake up the property technology (proptech) ecosystem by accelerating deal closures, unlocking liquidity and eliminating manual processes by speeding up and simplifying the process of securing bridging finance. This is according to industry players who note that for sellers, digitised bridging funding provides the…

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Top ICT tenders: Comms dept pursues SABC funding model

Top ICT tenders: Comms dept pursues SABC funding model

Television advertising revenue is dwindling and the competition for advertising has heightened. Volumes on National Treasury’s eTenders Portal are lower this week, but the ICT industry benefits from a range of interesting requests, with particular focus on software requirements. The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies grabs the headline this week with its announcement that…

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Africa: UN Funding Crisis Threatens Work of Human Rights Council

Africa: ‘Global Solidarity Benefits Us All’ – Spain Makes the Case for Development Funding

Funding cuts to international development have cast a pall over a major UN-led international conference set to address the huge challenges faced by countries in the Global South. Despite this sobering backdrop, Eva Granados, Spanish Secretary of State for International Cooperation, insists that global solidarity is still alive, despite indications to the contrary. For decades,…

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Trump administration announces  million in funding for Gaza aid group called a “death trap” by U.N.

Trump administration announces $30 million in funding for Gaza aid group called a “death trap” by U.N.

The U.S. State Department announced Thursday that the Trump administration had approved $30 million in funding for the controversial, opaquely run private food distribution organization known as the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which has been criticized by a United Nations agency as “a death trap” for hungry Palestinians in the war-torn enclave. It is the first…

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