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More Prevention, Vulnerability and Rights Division Feature Stories
- HIV prevention in Olympic Villages
- As part of a joint HIV prevention campaign which will run throughout the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, free condoms will be made available in Olympic Villages; and athletes will be educated about HIV and encouraged to be ambassadors of the AIDS response.
- The Lancet: Series on HIV prevention launched
- The Lancet in conjunction with UNAIDS has produced a special series of six major articles on the future of global HIV prevention and held a lunchtime symposium with the authors on 5 August during the International AIDS conference Mexico City.
- Leaders pledge to promote sexual health to stop HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean
- At the conclusion of the 1st Meeting of Ministers of Education and Health to stop HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean, Ministers have signed an historic declaration committing to provide comprehensive sex education to adolescents and young people in the region.
- Preventing HIV, preserving the environment
- The use of condoms in Brazil is preventing the spread of HIV and it might also be helping to save the rainforest thanks to a condom factory opened in April in the Amazon region. This unique factory uses natural latex collected by local rubber tappers and it will be able to supply the Brazilian government with 100 million condoms a year.
- UNAIDS committed to support the achievement of MDG3
- UNAIDS Executive Director Dr Peter Piot received one of the MDG3 Torches on Thursday 26 June in Geneva as part of a campaign organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark intended to ensure commitment from participants to the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3): Promote gender equality and empower women.
- Securing our future: Final report from Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa
- The Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA) will present its final report "Securing our future" to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 9 June 2008 at UN Headquarters.
- Panel discussion 3: Gender equality and AIDS
- The first panel discussion on the second day of the 2008 High-Level meeting on AIDS is on the topic of gender equality and AIDS.
- UNAIDS response to “Reassessing HIV Prevention”
- UNAIDS advocates that countries implement HIV prevention programmes that will be truly effective in reducing new HIV infections. This requires a strategic combination of interventions that address populations that are at risk or vulnerable for transmission and that utilize behavioral and social change methods that are appropriate and informed by the latest evidence.
- Human rights and gender in HIV-related legal frameworks
- In adopting the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS in 2001 at the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, Governments have fully recognized the importance of protecting human rights and gender equality through appropriate legal frameworks in national responses to HIV.
- 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.
- Women leading the AIDS response in Latin America
- The Coalition of First Ladies and Women Leaders of Latin America on Women and AIDS held its IV meeting in the Dominican Republic on 27 and 28 March 2008.
- Abataka: Women shape their future
- International Women’s Day on 8 March is a global day of celebration to inspire women and celebrate their achievements. The theme of 2008 is “Investing in Women and Girls”. UNAIDS Special Representative Mary Fisher and the women artisans of the Abataka jewellery project believe income generation projects are critical in empowering women living with HIV, enabling them to shape their future.
- International Women's Day 2008: Investing in women and girls
- Ahead of 2008 International Women’s Day - themed “Investing in Women and Girls” - the main focus of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women was the importance of financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women.
- 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.
- Microbicides: why are they significant? (Part 1)
- Ahead of next week’s biannual international microbicides conference Microbicides 2008 running 24 – 27 February in New Delhi we take an in-depth look at microbicides. In part 1 of this 2-part series we look at why they are considered significant in the response to HIV. In part 2 the challenges to the development of this preventative technology will be explored.
- Innovative approaches at grassroots level in Zambia
- Slowing the high rate of new HIV infections among young girls in Zambia is being addressed with urgency by leadership on several levels across the country.
- Meeting ethical concerns over HIV trials
- In the first of a special three-part web series, www.unaids.org looks at the state of research into new HIV prevention technologies, the ethical debates around the issue, and the steps that have been taken to answer the concerns. The question of HIV trials, and in particular the involvement of women and adolescent girls in them, will be the subject of a two-day conference being hosted by UNAIDS in Geneva December 10-11.
- Concern over Criminalization of HIV Transmission
- Several countries have recently introduced laws to criminalise HIV transmission, or exposing another person to the virus. A number of jurisdictions have used general laws against serious bodily harm in cases where someone is accused of knowingly transmitting HIV or willingly exposing others to HIV transmission.
- Women join forces in Latin America
- Over 100 women leaders from Latin America met in San Pedro Sula, Honduras on 26 October for the third meeting of the Coalition of Latin American First Ladies and Women Leaders.
- Invest in Women – It Pays
- At the Women Deliver conference in London (18 – 20 Oct 2007), UNAIDS Executive Director called for renewed political support and increased funding to make sure that women’s health become a national priority across the world. He stressed that “healthy mothers and children are key to slowing down the AIDS epidemic”