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- UN Plus members discuss stigma and health insurance with UN Secretary-General during 2011 High Level Meeting on AIDS
- UN Plus, the United Nations group of HIV positive employees, met with the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 8 June to discuss stigma and discrimination as well as the various health insurances existing in the different UN agencies that are hampering staff members living with HIV and their families to have access to continued, comprehensive care.
- HIV prevention and protection for women and girls cannot wait
- HIV is recognized as the leading cause of deaths among women of reproductive age. To discuss this issue, a policy forum was held to identify and strengthen the response to women, girls and HIV on the sidelines of the 2011 UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS on 8 June.
- World leaders renew commitment to AIDS, health and sustainable development
- Heads of State discuss stronger leadership, sustainable financing, mutual accountability and the importance of youth leadership at UN High Level Meeting on AIDS
- Getting to Zero new HIV infections: High Level Meeting panel outlines way forward
- To build on recent successes in HIV prevention, the United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS brought together a panel for an inspired session to outline the way ahead to sustain the momentum of the HIV prevention revolution.
- Shared responsibility – a new global compact for HIV
- A call for a new global deal of compacts to shift leadership of the AIDS response to countries was made in the first panel Shared responsibility–a new global compact for HIV on the opening day of the UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS.
- First Ladies of the world unite to prevent new HIV infections among children
- First Ladies join forces to call for integration of HIV and maternal, newborn and child health programmes at special event during United Nations High Level Meeting on AIDS
- 2011 General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS opens
- The opening plenary of the 2011 General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS began today. More than 30 Heads of State, Government and Vice Presidents will attend the three day meeting which will include official plenary and five panel sessions along with 40 individual side events.
- In Women’s Words: HIV priorities for positive change
- To bring to the forefront priority actions for the AIDS response put forward by women around the world ahead of the General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS, a special event was held on 7 June.
- Harnessing the power and leadership of parliamentarians in the AIDS response
- The world’s parliaments and parliamentarians have a crucial role to play in an effective response to the AIDS epidemic. How this influence can be harnessed in the challenge to HIV was the central theme of a meeting held on the eve of the UN High Level Meeting on AIDS in New York.
- HIV treatment: Reducing deaths, illness and HIV infections while keeping costs down
- On the eve of the 2011 General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS, a side event on HIV treatment was organized by Médecins Sans Frontières in collaboration with the African Union Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations.
- UNAIDS International Goodwill Ambassador HRH Mette-Marit of Norway supports youth event ahead of High Level Meeting on AIDS
- An event convened by young people in New York ahead of the UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS was attended by UNAIDS International Goodwill Ambassador Her Royal Highness (HRH) Crown Princess Mette-Marit.
- The AIDS pandemic at 30 years: Council on Foreign Relations host moderated discussion ahead of High Level Meeting on AIDS
- Ahead of the UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS which will begin on 8 June, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) hosted a side event on 6 June to review the state of the AIDS epidemic.
- One million lives can be saved between now and the end of 2015 by preventing and treating tuberculosis among people living with HIV
- A new epidemiological model produced by the Stop TB Partnership, World Health Organization and UNAIDS shows that it is possible to sharply reduce AIDS deaths worldwide by preventing and treating tuberculosis.
- UNAIDS welcomes new UN Security Council resolution on HIV and preventing sexual violence in conflict
- The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) welcomes a new United Nations (UN) Security Council resolution on HIV which has been adopted at the UN Security Council in New York. The resolution calls for increased efforts by UN Member States to address HIV in peacekeeping missions. It also calls for HIV prevention efforts among uniformed services to be aligned with efforts to end sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings.
- Future of AIDS response focus of UN General Assembly High Level Meeting
- More than 3000 people will come together at the United Nations in New York tomorrow for the UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS. The meeting, which runs from 8-10 June, will provide an opportunity to take stock of the progress and challenges of the last 30 years and shape the future AIDS response.
- Poster power: A collection of AIDS awareness campaigns from around the world
- A new exhibition, now on display at the Art Directors Club in New York City, offers a glimpse at one of the most commonly-used visual media in the history of HIV campaigns: the poster.
- Putting a stamp on AIDS
- Nearly 3 million individual stamps will circulate within and across borders this year to draw attention to 30 years of the AIDS epidemic and the importance of continuing to prevent new HIV infections. Since the start of the epidemic, 60 million people have become infected with HIV and nearly 30 million people have died of AIDS-related causes.
- Yale convenes together senior health practitioners to build leadership and strategic problem-solving to improve health systems
- The Global Health Leadership Institute (GHLI) of Yale University held its 2011 GHLI Conference from 5-10 June 2001 under the theme of “moving health systems forward”.
- Global AIDS response continues to show results as a record number of people access treatment and rates of new HIV infections fall by nearly 25%
- About 6.6 million people were receiving antiretroviral therapy in low- and middle-income countries at the end of 2010, a nearly 22-fold increase since 2001, according to a new report AIDS at 30: Nations at the crossroads, released today by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
- Reference Group calls on UN Member States to scale-up evidence-based interventions to address HIV among people who use drugs
- Ahead of the 2011 United Nations High Level Meeting on AIDS, the Independent Reference Group to the United Nations on HIV and Injecting Drug Use has issued a statement calling for Member States to focus on HIV transmission among people who inject drugs.