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- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon leads a high-level mission to India in support of the Every Woman Every Child initiative
- On 28 April, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon led a high-level mission to Mumbai, India in support of the Every Woman Every Child initiative. During the visit, the Secretary-General commended Indian officials for the progress made in the AIDS response. Mr Ban also encouraged the Government of India to continue efforts to eliminate new paediatric HIV infections by 2015—one of the objectives of the Secretary-General’s five-year action plan.
- UNAIDS welcomes new guidelines which give an additional HIV prevention option to discordant couples
- New guidelines have been issued encouraging couples to go together for HIV testing in order to know their HIV status. The guidelines, released by the World Health Organization (WHO), also recommend that in couples who are serodiscordant—where one partner is living with HIV and the other not—antiretroviral therapy is offered to the person living with HIV to prevent his or her partner from becoming infected with the virus.
- New initiative launched to deliver better, cheaper medicines to Africa
- The need to ensure that people in Africa have access to essential, high quality, safe and affordable medicines has just received a major boost with the launch of the East African Community (EAC) Medicines Registration Harmonization Project in Arusha, Tanzania, on 30 March 2012.
- World TB Day: Children with tuberculosis being failed
- Much more needs to be done to prevent tuberculosis (TB) which affects at least half a million of the world’s children every year, with as many as 70 000 losing their lives. According to WHO and the Stop TB Partnership, most children can be saved from this curable illness with better diagnosis of the condition, greater access to health services and improved coordination of healthcare programmes.
- Libya: UNAIDS works with National Transitional Council to rebuild the country’s AIDS response
- As Libya celebrates the first anniversary of the 17 February revolution, UNAIDS together with the governing National Transitional Council are putting the building blocks for rejuvenate the country’s AIDS response.
- Uniting around a common agenda to address HIV and non-communicable diseases
- On 19 - 20 September 2011, Heads of State and Government are coming together at the United Nations in New York, this time to address the prevention and control of NCDs worldwide.
- Accelerating treatment 2.0 in Asia and the Pacific
- While the number of people living with HIV receiving antiretroviral therapy in Asia and Pacific almost tripled from 280 000 in 2006 to 739 000 in 2009, coverage remains low and only one in three people living with HIV had access to treatment in the region that year. UNAIDS and WHO convened partners to explore the Treatment 2.0 approach during the 10th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific.
- Eliminating new paediatric HIV infections and congenital syphilis in Asia-Pacific
- One of the key goals of the global AIDS response is the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive. In Asia and the Pacific, both Thailand and Cambodia are on track to reach this goal. However, overall, coverage of prevention of mother-to-child transmission is well below global averages, with very wide variations across the region.
- Global Fund Round 11: UNAIDS support countries to strengthen proposals
- To support countries to develop high quality HIV proposals, WHO and UNAIDS Secretariat, in consultation with the other UNAIDS Cosponsors, have developed a resource kit for Global Fund Round 11 applications.
- Treatment success in South Sudan: Fozia’s story
- In South Sudan, the world’s newest nation, a range of bilateral and multilateral partners have been working with the government to provide HIV prevention, treatment, education and support services to a population recovering from the effects of more than two decades of civil war.
- New public health approaches aim to reduce the spread of HIV and save lives of men who have sex with men and transgender people
- New public health recommendations from the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners aim to help policymakers and doctors scale up access to treatment and prevention services for HIV and sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men and transgender people. These are the first global public health guidelines to focus on these specific population groups.
- Can MDG 6 be achieved with the Health Workforce we have?
- If international aims such as achieving health-related MDGs are to be realised, the serious global shortage of health workers must be urgently addressed. At a side-event during the High Level Meeting on AIDS in New York, the need to recognize human resources as crucial to the global AIDS response was explored in depth.
- It’s possible: Making the most of linking sexual and reproductive health and HIV responses
- Linking sexual and reproductive health and HIV is of critical importance. On 8 June, during a side event at this week’s High Level Meeting on AIDS in New York, the question of how exactly such linkages can be strengthened was explored in depth.
- High level panel highlights need for greater investments in technology and innovation to advance results for HIV prevention for treatment
- Delegates at 2011 High Level Meeting on AIDS reflect on technological advancements made in HIV prevention and treatment and outline necessity for continued innovation to respond to epidemic in the coming decades.
- New world report on disability: Breaking down barriers
- The world’s one billion people living with disabilities have poorer health, lower educational achievements and are more prone to social exclusion than those without disabilities. Today, the first ever World Report on Disability sets out to challenge these disparities and suggest how they can be overcome.
- A sustainable HIV response: New global health sector strategy to help chart the way forward
- The World Health Assembly today adopted a new comprehensive Global Health Sector Strategy for HIV/AIDS 2011-2015, spearheaded by WHO. The strategy aims to provide a detailed and comprehensive guide to how health sectors can most effectively tackle the epidemic.
- New draft AIDS strategy high on the World Health Assembly agenda
- The 64th World Health Assembly is taking place in Geneva from 16-24 May and will be attended by Health Ministers and officials from more than 190 countries.
- Groundbreaking trial results confirm HIV treatment prevents transmission of HIV
- WHO and UNAIDS hail results from the HPTN 052 trial that show antiretroviral therapy to be 96% effective in reducing HIV transmission in couples where one partner has HIV
- New monitoring centre helps tackle HIV in prisons in Latin America and the Caribbean
- The newly established Monitoring Centre for HIV and Prisons in Latin America and the Caribbean is set to become a key regional repository for collecting and analysing data on HIV in prison settings.
- World Health Day 2011: Urgent action necessary to slow down the spread of drug resistance
- Drug resistance is becoming more severe and many infections are no longer easily cured, leading to prolonged and expensive treatment and greater risk of death, warns WHO on World Health Day.