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Viet Nam opens its first opioid substitution therapy service for prisoners

“In 2010, I participated in a study visit to learn about prison-based methadone programmes in Spain. Witnessing the positive impacts of the programme on prisoners as individuals and prisons as a whole, I reported the results and recommendations of the visit to the Ministry of Public Security,” said Nguyen Xuan Truong, Chief Prison Officer at Phu Son Prison. “It has been quite a wait since then, but I am happy that Phu Son is the first prison in Viet Nam to provide methadone services for prisoners.”
Press Statement

World AIDS Day message 2016

Today, we commemorate World AIDS Day—we stand in solidarity with the 78 million people who have become infected with HIV and remember the 35 million who have died from AIDS-related illnesses since the first cases of HIV were reported.
Press Statement

16 Days of Activism: UNAIDS calls for action to keep girls in school and eliminate gender-based violence

In support of the annual 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, which begins on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and ends on 10 December, Human Rights Day, UNAIDS is calling for urgent action to keep girls in school, end gender-based violence and reduce girls’ vulnerability to HIV.
Update

Tajikistan joins “Hands up for #HIVprevention”

The Minister of Health of Tajikistan, Nusratullo Salimzoda, called for people to know their HIV status during the first ever public event on HIV prevention in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on 15 November.
Update

Preventing HIV among transgender women in Lima

​Transgender women face significant barriers that limit their access to health services and/or increase their vulnerability to HIV: stigma and discrimination, gender-based violence and gender inequities. As a result, the percentage of transgender women reached with HIV prevention and treatment services is very low.
Feature Story

Protecting the confidentiality and security of personal health information

Health services are being scaled up in many low- and middle-income countries. This has resulted in a substantial increase in the amount of personal health information collected in order to develop and maintain comprehensive health records of a person’s use of the services and to monitor and evaluate the use, cost, outcomes and impacts of programmes or services. Detailed personal health information is also needed to evaluate success towards achieving, for example, the 90–90–90 targets, universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Feature Story

Implementing comprehensive HIV and STI programmes with men who have sex with men in Kyrgyzstan

Working on HIV and STI prevention, treatment, care and support is deeply challenging in much of eastern Europe and central Asia. Gay men and other men who have sex with men are subjected to considerable harassment, violence, stigma and discrimination. Most men who have sex with men are socially and culturally forced to marry women and face social exclusion and family rejection if they choose to be open about their sexuality. Sex between men is clandestine and opportunities to meet, socialize and love are limited. Empowering all men who have sex with men to live with dignity, free from violence and with affordable and accessible HIV and STI prevention and treatment services is at the heart of the guidance.
Feature Story

HIV prevention among key populations

Since 2010, the annual global number of new HIV infections among adults (15 years and older) has remained static, at an estimated 1.9 million. Members of key populations, including sex workers, people who inject drugs, transgender people, prisoners and gay men and other men who have sex with men, and their sexual partners accounted for 45% of all new HIV infections in 2015.
Press Release

UNAIDS announces 18.2 million people on antiretroviral therapy, but warns that 15–24 years of age is a highly dangerous time for young women

New UNAIDS report shows that people are particularly vulnerable to HIV at certain points in their lives and calls for a life-cycle approach to find solutions for everyone at every stage of life
Update

UNAIDS wins award for China–Africa health cooperation

The UNAIDS Country Director for China, Catherine Sozi, has received an award for her exceptional contribution to health cooperation between China and Africa. The China Alliance for South–South Health Cooperation Research presented Ms Sozi with the special award during the 6th International Roundtable of China–Africa Health Cooperation on 22 November in Shanghai, China.

Strategy
At the end of 2015, the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board adopted a new strategy to end the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030.
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Information about United Nations Declarations since the General Assembly convened a special session on HIV/AIDS in June 2001.
Goals
The Fast-Track Commitments are drawn from the 2016 United Nations Political Declaration on Ending AIDS, which was adopted by United Nations Member States at the 2016 United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS and the UNAIDS 2016–2021 Strategy.
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Global Goals
On September 25th 2015, countries adopted a set of goals to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

"NOW IS THE TIME TO COME TOGETHER AGAIN AND FINISH WHAT WE STARTED. LET US SEIZE THIS OPPORTUNITY AND JOIN THE FAST-TRACK TOWARDS ENDING AIDS AS A PUBLIC HEALTH THREAT BY 2030."

MICHEL SIDIBÉ
UNAIDS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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