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- New policy brief on disability and HIV
- An estimated 650 million people, or 10% of the world’s population, have a disability. Although people with disabilities are found within the populations at higher risk of exposure to HIV, not much attention has been paid to the relationship between HIV and disability.
- UNAIDS Committee of Cosponsoring Organizations meet
- The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) brings together the efforts and resources of ten UN system organizations in the AIDS response. The UNAIDS Committee of Cosponsoring Organizations (CCO) serves as the forum for these Cosponsors to meet on a regular basis to consider matters of major importance to UNAIDS, and to provide input from the Cosponsoring organizations into the policies and strategies of UNAIDS.
- Call for global action on the threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis
- Ministers from the 27 countries with the highest burden of multi-drug resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (M/XDR-TB) have jointly endorsed a Call for Action on TB control and care to urgently address this alarming threat. The meeting in Beijing, China, on 1-3 April 2009, was organized by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
- El Salvador: Ministerial decree to reduce homophobia in health services
- The Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance of El Salvador approved, as part of its National Plan on HIV prevention, a set of actions to reduce homophobia and any type of discrimination based on sexual orientation in the health services.
- Need for scale up in integrated TB and HIV screening to address linked epidemics
- Although it is mostly preventable and curable, tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of death among people living with HIV globally. Of the 33 million people who are living with HIV, only 20% of know their status, and only a tiny fraction, 2% in 2007, were screened for TB according to the World Health Organization’s annual report on global TB control launched today.
- Condoms and HIV prevention: Position statement by UNAIDS, UNFPA and WHO
- Condom use is a critical element in a comprehensive, effective and sustainable approach to HIV prevention and treatment. Prevention is the mainstay of the response to AIDS. Condoms are an integral and essential part of comprehensive prevention and care programmes, and their promotion must be accelerated. In 2007, an estimated 2.7 million people became newly infected with HIV. About 45% of them were young people from 15 to 24 years old, with young girls at greater risk of infection than boys.
- Highlighting sexual violence on International Women’s Day
- "Women and men: United to end violence against women" is the theme of this year’s International Women's Day which is observed at the United Nations on 5 March 2009 and celebrated internationally on 8 March.
- Spotlight: men who have sex with men and HIV
- Film offers invaluable insights into the lives of different cultures, groups, and people. It is a medium that has a long history in addressing controversial topics and issues. For men who have sex with men, cinema has been a powerful platform to highlight the challenges they face in society.
- New tool distills guidance on writing strong Global Fund HIV proposals
- As applicants prepare their proposals for the next round of HIV funding, Round 9, UNAIDS and WHO have jointly developed an online resource kit to provide guidance in planning and writing strong Global Fund proposals.
- HIV treatment figures up by 46.5%
- Some 3 million people now have access to antiretroviral therapy according to a report issued today by WHO, UNAIDS and UNICEF.
- New UNAIDS policy on HIV, food security and nutrition
- In many parts of the world, lack of food security and poor nutrition are worsening the effects of the HIV epidemic.
- Developing strategies to work with FBOs
- UNAIDS in collaboration with UNFPA, WHO, ILO and UNDP has convened a meeting to outline a strategy for future work with faith-based organizations on AIDS issues.
- TB deaths rise in people living with HIV
- Almost quarter of a million people living with HIV died from Tuberculosis (TB) in 2006 according to a new report published by the World Health Organization (WHO). The annual report, Global Tuberculosis Control 2008, also shows that nearly 3/4 million people living with HIV fell ill with TB disease in 2006, confirming that TB is a major cause of illness and death in people living with HIV despite being mostly preventable and curable.
- Uniting against female genital mutilation
- Reaffirming their commitment to the elimination of female genital mutilation, 10 United Nations bodies including UNAIDS, have expressed their commitment to support governments, communities, and women and girls to abandon the practice within a generation.
- MDR-TB more common in people living with HIV
- According a recent WHO report on anti-TB drug resistance, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis is almost twice as common in TB patients living with HIV compared to TB patients without HIV.
- Addressing the health worker shortage crisis
- One of the major constraints to addressing both the AIDS epidemic and global access to essential health care services is the serious shortage of healthcare workers.
- HIV testing and counseling: new guidance
- WHO and UNAIDS issued new guidance on informed, voluntary HIV testing and counselling in the world's health facilities on Wednesday 30 May, with a view to significantly increasing access to needed HIV treatment, care support and prevention services.
- Treatment figures reach 2 million
- WHO, UNAIDS and UNICEF have launched a new report on scaling up priority AIDS interventions in the health sector.
- Launch of the 2007 Global Tuberculosis Control Report
- The lethal combination of TB and HIV will be highlighted on this year’s World TB Day 24th March. TB is a leading cause of death among people living with HIV––and the weakened immune system caused by HIV makes people living with HIV at greatly increased risk of developing TB disease. UNAIDS, WHO and the Stop TB Partnership have pledged to work together to fight against these deadly viruses.
- Joining forces to tackle TB and HIV
- TB is one of the biggest killers of people living with HIV and now a new strain of TB is emerging that has become resistant to most of the available anti-tuberculosis drugs. WHO and UNAIDS, together with other actors working on TB and HIV issues are stepping up action to stop the spread of TB and the deadly new strain.