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African Union summit focuses on economic growth and food security

Leaders and representatives from some 50 African countries, as well as guests from the international community are gathered in Sirte, Libya from 1 – 3 July for the 13th ordinary session of the African Union. UNAIDS Executive Director, Mr Michel Sidibé also attended the meeting where has he held several consultations with African leaders.
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Made in Africa: Op-ed by UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé

UNAIDS welcomes historic decision by Delhi High Court to annul the law that criminalizes adult homosexual relations

The Delhi High Court in India today annulled a 150-year-old law criminalizing “carnal intercourse against the order of nature,” commonly known as Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.
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Read High-Court Judgment (pdf, 431 Kb)
UNAIDS Action Framework on Universal Access for Men who have Sex with Men and for Transgender People

 
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Call for Nominations of PCB NGOs 2010-2011

The UNAIDS PCB NGOs have vacancies for two-year terms beginning 1 January 2010 and ending 31 December 2011, for the following positions:
1. Europe Main Delegate
2. Europe Alternate Delegate
3. Latin America and the Caribbean Alternate Delegate
4. African Alternate Delegate
5. Asia Alternate Delegate

Please visit www.unaidspcbngo.org for a complete description and full application in English.
Deadline: 31 August 2009

Tenders are invited for the management of UNAIDS Technical Support Facilities

In 2005, UNAIDS established regional Technical Support Facilities (TSF) as independent regional entities to build capacities and provide timely, high-quality and competitively priced technical assistance in support of national AIDS responses. Contracts with the TSF host institutions in (1) East Africa (2) Southern Africa (3) West & Central Africa and (4) South-East Asia & the Pacific come to an end in December 2009. In accordance with procurement policies, UNAIDS is initiating a re-bidding process for indentifying potential contractors to manage the TSFs in above-mentioned regions.
Tender documents must be submitted by registered mail or courier by 31 July 2009, 17:00 GMT

Influenza A(H1N1) and HIV infection

There are many questions concerning the potential impact of emerging influenza A(H1N1)* on people living with HIV, as they are more susceptible to opportunistic infections.
Considerations on influenza A (H1N1) and HIV infection (WHO Guidance Note)

UNAIDS Second Independent Evaluation

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AIDS Policies and briefs

The AIDS policies and briefs provide a vision and specific guidance to policymakers, planners and advocates at all levels. They include Umbrella policies which reflect the commitments made by governments through the inter-governmental processes and Technical policies and guidelines which have been developed by UNAIDS Secretariat and its ten Cosponsors.

Important information about fraudulent emails

With UN and UNAIDS logos freely available on the web, many official looking but bogus web pages announcing public events, fund raising meetings, solicitations in the name of UNAIDS have become more and more common.

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UNGASS Guidelines for 2010 reporting
To assist Member States in preparing and submitting their 2010 Country Progress reports, UNAIDS has released the new UNGASS Guidelines on Construction of Core Indicators for 2010 reporting.

Country Response Information System (CRIS) version 3
CRIS3 enables national AIDS authorities to store, share and utilize the national HIV data in an effective manner with national and international counterparts.

HIV Indicator Registry
Through the Indicator Registry, professionals in monitoring and evaluation, for the first time ever have access to the complete definitions of all key indicators in one central database.