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- ILO sees significant improvement in workplace attitudes to HIV
- Better policies and practices in the workplace have led to more supportive attitudes towards co-workers living with HIV, the International Labour Organization (ILO) reports in its new publication “Saving lives, protecting jobs”.
- Carrying the Olympic flame for PLHIV in Tanzania
- Dhamiri Mustapha, a young Tanzanian woman living with HIV, was one of the 80 dignitaries who carried the Olympic flame during the five-kilometre torch relay in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, on 13 April.
- A stronger civil society voice in the UNAIDS work
- The NGO Delegation to the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board has established a new Communications Facility intended to compile civil society’s issues to be addressed at the global level and to support the work of the Delegation at the Board meetings.
- 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.
- Leadership and AIDS: Patricia Pérez
- Leadership is the expression of a person whose aim is to transform something for the better and to develop this potential in others. Often leadership abilities are brought to the fore by certain crises in life enabling people to discover abilities that they didn’t know they had.
- Lions Club International signs Central America agreement with UNAIDS and UNICEF
- UNAIDS and UNICEF Regional Support Teams (RST) for Latin America have signed a cooperation agreement with the Lions Club International (LCI) in Central America.
- UNAIDS Executive Director receives prestigious humanitarian award
- The first ever ‘Blessed Mother Teresa International Humanitarian Award’ has been awarded to Dr Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS for the ‘significant impact he has made to the lives of people living with HIV in the developing world’.
- Making a difference: UNAIDS in Ethiopia
- Continuing with the web special series “Making a difference”, which focuses on the work of UNAIDS staff at country level, www.unaids.org talks to UNAIDS Country Coordinator in Ethiopia, Roger Salla Ntounga, his role, his motivations and how one document is making history in the AIDS response.
- Theological consultation on HIV prevention
- The role of Christian faith in responding to the AIDS epidemic was the focus of a consultation that took place in Johannesburg, South Africa from 28 January to 2 February.
- HIV positive leaders meet in Monaco
- UNAIDS Special Representative Her Serene Highness Princess Stephanie of Monaco has convened a meeting of HIV positive leaders in her home town of Monaco.
- Business Coalitions: a joint response to AIDS
- “UNAIDS has supported the development of a number of national business coalitions on HIV in regions heavily impacted by the epidemic,” said Peter Piot, Executive Director, UNAIDS. “Business Coalitions help to ensure that the response is coordinated and that knowledge and expertise is shared across the board, they are a valued and respected partner in the AIDS response.”
- Business and the AIDS response
- UNAIDS works closely with the private sector and recognises the significant contribution the business community makes to the global response to the AIDS epidemic. This week, world business leaders will come together at the World Economic Forum in Davos to discuss global priorities for 2008––including the business community’s contribution to the AIDS response.
- Civil society’s role in joint reviews of AIDS responses
- Country experiences of joint reviews of national AIDS responses were discussed and analyzed at a consultation organized by UNAIDS which took place in Geneva on 15 – 16 January 2008.
- 2008 High-Level Meeting on AIDS
- The 2008 High-Level Meeting on AIDS will take place at the United Nations headquarters in New York on 10 - 11 June. It will review progress made in implementing the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the 2006 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS.
- Strengthening partnership: UNAIDS and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance
- Working towards the global efforts to reach universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services for all those in need, UNAIDS has renewed its collaboration with the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
- India: largest-ever gathering of people living with HIV
- Over 7,000 people living with HIV came together in Shilparamam-Hyderabad, India on 7 December as part of the Andhra Pradesh State’s “Be Bold” campaign.
- UN Secretary-General opens UNPlus exhibition
- In observance of World AIDS Day 2007, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened a photographic exhibition entitled "UN Plus" at the United Nations headquarters in New York with the members of UNPlus - the UN System HIV Positive Staff Group.
- AIDS focus at U.S. Evangelical Summit
- UNAIDS Executive Director Dr. Peter Piot spoke today at the Saddleback Church Global AIDS Summit in Lake Forest, California. Dr Piot noted the unique and important role in the global AIDS response of religious groups of all kinds, which provide HIV treatment, care and support in some of the remotest parts of the world.
- International consultation on Islam and AIDS
- Islamic Relief Worldwide is currently hosting a conference entitled ‘Islam and HIV/AIDS’ in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 26 to 30 November 2007. It will comprise of five days of consultations that aim to generate practical responses to HIV and AIDS. Elhadj As Sy, UNAIDS Director of Partnerships and External Relations gave a plenary address on 26th November 2007.
- Business and AIDS
- The role of business in the AIDS response was discussed at a special symposium on ‘International visions on the future of health care in resource-poor settings’ organized by Heineken international in Amsterdam.