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UNAIDS welcomes Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as new Director-General of the World Health Organization
WHO Member States cast their final votes at a closed session during the 70th World Health Assembly.
Interviews with the candidates for WHO Director-General
David Nabarro, Sania Nishtar and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus talk to unaids.org about the AIDS epidemic and global health.
Reaching the missing millions
The window of opportunity to end AIDS and TB is shrinking. UNAIDS and partners are meeting to find ways of overcoming the barriers to reaching the missing millions.
Interview with Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General elect
Dr Tedros talked to unaids.org...
Interview with David Nabarro, candidate for WHO Director-General
The three final candidates, David Nabarro, Sania Nishtar and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, have spoken to unaids.org about the AIDS epidemic and global health.
Interview with Sania Nishtar, candidate for WHO Director-General
The three final candidates, David Nabarro, Sania Nishtar and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, have spoken to unaids.org about the AIDS epidemic and global health.
Closing the diagnostics gap for HIV for young infants
To achieve the Fast-Track Targets and end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, new HIV infections among children must be eliminated. HIV can pass from mother to child during pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, but with antiretroviral therapy mother-to-child transmission rates can fall to 5% or less.
The global threat of drug resistance emphasized in new WHO tuberculosis report
In the 2016 report on the state of the global tuberculosis (TB) epidemic and response, the World Health Organization announced that there were an estimated 10.4 million new TB cases in 2015, higher than previous estimates. However, only 6.1 million TB cases were detected and officially reported in 2015, demonstrating a major gap in finding and testing people who may have TB. Six countries accounted for 60% of the total global burden of TB—China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and South...
Reaffirming the leadership of people living with HIV in the AIDS response
People living with HIV have been at the forefront of the AIDS response from the beginning, as equal partners providing solutions on how to provide services and demanding the respect and rights of everyone affected by HIV.
WHO: Two cutting-edge technologies for HIV detection in infants receive WHO prequalification
Two innovative technologies for early infant diagnosis of HIV newly prequalified by WHO will allow many more infants to be diagnosed quickly and placed on life-saving treatment.
