Giving Compass' Take:

• Fewer than half of men living with HIV are receiving treatment. As Global Citizen reports, Prince Harry, Sir Elton John, and Nelson Mandela’s grandson have launched a billion dollar global partnership to be part of the solution.

• The MenStar Coalition is aimed at pushing back against "dangerous complacency," targeted toward at-risk men in sub-Saharan Africa. What can international groups do to support this effort?

• The battle against HIV/AIDS is being fought on many fronts, and there is some good news here.

Prince Harry, Sir Elton John, and Nelson Mandela’s grandson have joined together to launch a campaign to raise awareness among men about HIV.

The power trio kicked off the billion-dollar global partnership — the MenStar Coalition — recently in Amsterdam, at the 22nd International AIDS Conference.

They warned about the “dangerous complacency” that is threatening to slow, or even reverse, the progress that has been made globally against the disease in recent years.

The aim of the campaign is to target men living with, or at risk of, HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, and break the cycle of male transmission. It wants to encourage more men to get tested and to educate men — particularly between the ages of 24 and 35 — on how to protect themselves from the virus.

“MenStar” is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as well as by the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Unitaid, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, and Johnson & Johnson, a partner of Global Citizen, among others.

About 37 million people around the world have HIV, according to the United Nations' programme on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, but fewer than half of men living with HIV receive treatment — compared to 60% of women.

In western and central Africa, for example, only 48% of people living with HIV know their status, according to a report released by UNAIDS this month.

Read the full article about the battle against HIV by Imogen Calderwood at Global Citizen.