Italy, Financial Act 2011 – a negative record for International Cooperation funds
After less than one month from the last New York Summit on MDGs, which finished with the commitment by rich countries to maintain their engagement for supporting MDGs, the new Italian Financial Act for 2011 cuts off 45% of the funds that in June the same Government had decided to assign to Cooperation for Development. Reaching in such a way a negative record: the effective amount that Italy will invest in this issue for the next year (179 MLN Euro) is the minimum assigned by this Country in the last 20 years. This policy is in strong opposition with the rest of Europe Read more of this article »

On the 17th of December 2009, Cuscos is organizing a workshop in Modena, Italy, with the objective of widening the CoBaSys project from just being focused on HIV infected patients to a more multidisciplinary sector. This would include a shift no only to a wider range of medical issues but also on social, anthropological and economic thematics.