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- Investing in harm reduction––sound economic sense
- Spending money on harm reduction programmes for people who use drugs not only is a good investment but it also saves lives. This was the conclusion drawn at a meeting entitled Economics and financing of effective harm reduction strategies in the context of HIV which took place on the side-lines of the International Harm Reduction Conference held in Vilnius, Lithuania from 9-12 June.
- United Nations agencies meet with President and government officials of Botswana ahead of High-Level Dialogue on Health
- Ahead of the High-Level Dialogue on Health in the Post-2015 Development Agenda, held in Gaborone Botswana from 5-6 March 2013, four heads of United Nations agencies met with the President of Botswana, Ian Khama to discuss the meeting’s implications to global health.
- Eliminating new HIV infections among children and keeping their mothers alive is not just about pills
- A mid-term review on the implementation of the Global Plan Towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections among Children by 2015 and Keeping their Mothers Alive took place in Nairobi, Kenya from 6-7 December.
- New guidelines to better prevent HIV in sex workers
- The World Health Organization (WHO) in partnership with UNFPA, UNAIDS, and the Global Network of Sex Work Projects, have developed new guidelines to better protect sex workers from HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
- The International Labour Organization launches “Getting to Zero at Work” campaign
- The International Labour Organization (ILO), together with UNAIDS and the World Health Organization, launched on 27 November the “Getting to Zero at Work” campaign to promote the rights of people living with HIV in the workplace. The initiative recognizes the vital role that the world of work plays in the response to AIDS.
- UNAIDS and PAHO strengthen collaboration towards putting an end to AIDS in the Americas
- UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé met on 7 November with the recently appointed Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr Carissa Etienne at the UNAIDS Headquarters in Geneva to strengthen collaboration towards putting an end to AIDS in the Americas.
- TB and HIV integration discussed at AIDS 2012
- To give voice to TB and HIV affected communities around the world by sharing their experience and views on the way forward in the fight against the two diseases, a live web casted talk show took place at the Newseum during the International AIDS Conference entitled “Tuberculosis + HIV: Protecting the Vulnerable”.
- The HIV experience and other chronic diseases
- Taking HIV out of isolation, a satellite session at the 19th International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC, examined ways in which service delivery systems have evolved in addressing HIV as a chronic health issue.
- More effective AIDS coordination at country level discussed at AIDS 2012
- To review lessons learned and establish key principles for more effective coordination of the AIDS response, a meeting took place during the International AIDS Conference entitled Fit for purpose: striving for more effective AIDS coordination at country level.
- 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.