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- 2011 Political Declaration: Targets and elimination commitments
- Reducing sexual transmission
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- Eliminating new HIV infections among children
- 15 million accessing treatment
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- Eliminating gender inequalities
- Eliminating stigma and discrimination
- Eliminating travel restrictions
- Strengthening HIV integration
- 2011 Political Declaration: Targets and elimination commitments
More Civil Society and Private Sector Division Feature Stories
- Countries urged to review progress made in achieving national AIDS targets
- Ahead of the UN High-level Meeting on Millennium Development Goals, UNAIDS calls on all countries to review progress and barriers for achieving national targets for universal access.
- Civil society: Have your say on community systems strengthening!
- The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has developed a community systems strengthening Framework in collaboration with other stakeholders including UNAIDS to clarify the range of community strengthening activities the Global Fund is mandated to support. Civil society views on this framework, which will play an important role for anyone working at a community level, are sought.
- New UN-business website to bring about private sector partnerships
- Business.un.org the new UN-business partnership gateway, was introduced today at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting held in Davos, Switzerland. The website will provide a single entry point for to match the capacities and resources of the private sector with the needs of the UN System, be it for humanitarian relief, poverty reduction or HIV programmes.
- UNAIDS staff member carries Olympic Flame in Calgary
- UNAIDS staff member Eric Sawyer will be carrying the Olympic Flame in Calgary, Canada on 20 January as part of the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay leading up to the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, to be held from 12-28 February.
- UNAIDS launches framework for partnership with religious organizations
- UNAIDS has launched a new strategic framework for partnership with Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) in its response to HIV at the Parliament of the World’s Religions. It is evidence of stronger partnerships between UNAIDS and FBOs.
- International Labour Organization marks World AIDS Day
- About one hundred officials gathered today to form a human red ribbon to commemorate and celebrate World AIDS Day at the International Labour Organization (ILO) headquarters in Geneva on 1 December.
- What does living with HIV mean to me?
- There are an estimated 33.4 million people around the world living with HIV. As we gather around the globe this World AIDS Day to collectively commemorate, celebrate and speak out, it is important to not lose sight of the individuals behind the numbers and to remember the very real impact HIV has on people’s lives. This is Raffaele’s story.
- Developing indicators on HIV-related stigma and discrimination
- Great strides have been made in recent years in understanding HIV-related stigma and discrimination – how to measure it and how to reduce it. However, the wide diversity of measures used to measure the causes, levels and consequences of stigma makes it difficult to compare prevalence of stigma across setting and populations. In addition, the lack of standardised indicators at the programme, national and global levels has been a significant barrier to scale up stigma reduction programmes.
- United Kingdom rollout The People Living with HIV Stigma Index
- An index that documents the stigma experienced by people living with HIV in the country has been launched at the Houses of Parliament, London, United Kingdom.
- UNAIDS welcomes legal registration of Viet Nam Network of People Living With HIV
- The Viet Nam Network of People Living with HIV (VNP+) was launched on 24 November 2009. VNP+ represents the combined strength of 150 self-help groups and alliances of people living with HIV from various parts of Viet Nam, and ensures their meaningful involvement in the national response to AIDS.
- Michel Sidibé commends China’s progress in AIDS response
- UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé, during his visit to China, commended the People’s Republic of China on rises in domestic spending for HIV prevention and care in spite of a global financial crisis where other countries are weighing the risks of making cuts.
- UNAIDS Executive Director visit to China opens with focus on civil society
- UNAIDS Executive Secretary Michel Sidibé arrived in Shanghai this week on the first leg of a two-city visit to China. During the visit, Michel Sidibé will visit Shanghai and Beijing, launch the 2009 AIDS Epidemic Update and meet with many key partners from Chinese government and civil society. Michel Sidibé began his visit by attending a prize giving ceremony organised by the China office of the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition, an organization that works to improve treatment conditions for people living with HIV at the local, regional and international levels.
- Business coalitions on AIDS strengthen the private sector response to AIDS in Asia
- In order to take stock of progress made by business coalitions on AIDS (BCA) in the Asia Pacific region and to ensure that standards are upheld as services are scaled up, UNAIDS, the Asia Pacific Business Coalition (APBCA) and the Asian Business Coalition on AIDS (ABCA) organized a regional meeting of BCAs from the region in Bangkok earlier this month.
- Acclaimed photo exhibition by women living with HIV opens in New York
- On 17 November UNAIDS hosted a reception for the opening of an exhibition at the United Nations in New York entitled The House Is Small But The Welcome Is Big, a project of the Los Angeles–based Venice Arts of over 40 extraordinary photographs made by South African women living with HIV and Mozambican children who lost both parents to AIDS.
- Private sector in West and Central Africa explore strategic partnerships for improved health outcomes
- A strategic combination of private sector know-how and technologies with public sector expertise and funding could lead to improved health and a more efficient AIDS response in West and Central Africa. This was the message from a one day workshop held in Ghana focusing on the role of the private sector in Global Fund processes that brought together companies, national business coalitions tackling HIV and employers federations, as well as trade unions and development partners from all over West and Central Africa.
- Nigeria launches postal service campaign for HIV awareness
- To mark World Post Day on 9 October, Nigeria held a national launch of a global awareness campaign in collaboration with the Universal Postal Union, UNAIDS, the ILO and UNI Global.
- Partnering with faith based organizations for virtual elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV
- Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé took part in a meeting in Rome with members of Religious Orders, heads of Catholic-run AIDS projects, professors of Theology, medical doctors, as well as representatives for the pharmaceutical industry to discuss the prevention and early treatment of HIV and TB in young children.
- UNAIDS Executive Director joins Chief Minister to launch Learning Site on HIV and sex work in Bangalore, India
- In Bangalore earlier today, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé joined the Chief Minister of Karnataka, B.S. Yediyurappa at the official launch of the Ashodaya Academy – the first learning site on HIV in the Asia-Pacific region run entirely by sex workers. The Chief Minister welcomed the opening of the centre in Mysore, which begins its first HIV training course with over 200 sex workers from Ashodya, as well as participants from as far away as Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Myanmar and Nepal.
- New initiative to train India’s people living with HIV on AIDS advocacy in the workplace
- Today, October 7 2009, we mark World Day for Decent Work. The International Labour Organization and the India Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS has recently launched an innovative tool in India’s response to HIV in the world of work. The two organizations have come together to release a training video package aimed at guiding those living with the virus in AIDS advocacy in the workplace as rights at work include freedom from discrimination.
- Moldova: NGOs coming together to strengthen HIV response
- Speaking with many voices and representing many different perspectives, the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play a key role in the response to the AIDS epidemic in countries around the world. As key partners in the development of national AIDS responses, NGOs are well positioned to provide quantative and qualitative information to augment the data collected by governments.