- About UNAIDS
- Our work
- Targets and commitments
- 2011 Political Declaration: Targets and elimination commitments
- Reducing sexual transmission
- Preventing HIV among drug users
- Eliminating new HIV infections among children
- 15 million accessing treatment
- Avoiding TB deaths
- Closing the resource gap
- Eliminating gender inequalities
- Eliminating stigma and discrimination
- Eliminating travel restrictions
- Strengthening HIV integration
- 2011 Political Declaration: Targets and elimination commitments
More Prevention, Vulnerability and Rights Division Feature Stories
- Sex workers and loggers in Guyana challenge HIV together
- Kay Forde has been a sex worker in Guyana for more than 20 years. She is an AIDS activist too. As secretary of the One Love Organization, a non-governmental organization addressing the HIV needs of sex workers, Ms Forde is committed to working with their clients, many of whom earn their living in the logging industry.
- Progress in restoring access to HIV services in Haiti
- One year after a devastating earthquake in Haiti, the delivery of HIV prevention and treatment services appears to be back on track.
- The Prevention Revolution: HIV Prevention on the social media agenda on World AIDS Day
- UNAIDS teamed up with MTV Staying Alive Campaign to put HIV prevention on the global agenda through social media. Over a six week period in the lead up to World AIDS day the ‘#PreventionRevolution’ campaign inspired thousands of online conversations on the need to revitalize interest in HIV prevention.
- UNAIDS delegation in Brazil builds awareness around HIV prevention
- UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé and a delegation of internationally-known leaders and personalities—including H.E. Festus Mogae, the former President of Botswana, and Nobel Prize Laureate Dr Mohammed ElBaradei—are visiting Brazil to mobilize support and dialogue around HIV prevention globally.
- Help put HIV prevention on the global agenda this World AIDS Day
- A few days ago, I launched the UNAIDS Report on the global AIDS epidemic 2010 which contains some very encouraging findings that the world has been long waiting to hear. Globally, new HIV infections have fallen by 20% over the past 10 years.
- Next steps with 1% tenofovir microbicide gel
- After nearly 20 years of research, the results of the CAPRISA 004 trial provided the first evidence that the use of a vaginal microbicide could provide a safe and effective way to prevent HIV infection in women.
- Prevention Revolution
- This is the third of five animated films for the social media initiative “HIV #PreventionRevolution”, that UNAIDS is running in the lead up to World AIDS Day 2010.
- African HIV prisons network receives prestigious international award
- The African HIV in Prisons Partnership Network has been presented with the prestigious 2010 Healthcare Award by the International Corrections and Prisons Association. Representing a major boost for the network, the award was given during the Association's recent annual conference in Belgium.
- African leaders call for accelerated response to AIDS in Zambia
- In a recent mission to Zambia the Champions for an HIV-Free Generation, an organization of African leaders which includes former presidents and other influential personalities, met with top government officials to help push Zambia’s AIDS response forward. Zambian President Rupiah Banda unveiled a new National AIDS Strategy in the presence of the Champions that aims to increase access to antiretroviral treatment and reduce HIV infections in Zambia by 50% by the year 2015.
- Talking about a revolution: HIV Prevention focus for UNAIDS social media initiative
- “More than 7000 people are infected with HIV every day. We need a prevention revolution.” This is the message that UNAIDS is using today to launch a social media initiative across twitter and facebook to revitalize interest in HIV Prevention in the lead up to World AIDS Day 2010.
- Emerging from conflict: women’s role in rebuilding better, fairer communities
- Too often women suffer the worst consequences of war. The latest flagship report from the UNFPA, State of world population 2010, explores the dangerous consequences for women caught up in conflict and crisis and highlights their transformative role in rebuilding communities.
- Liberia launches national agenda to improve the health of women and girls
- Following a 14-year civil war, Liberia has faced a host of post-conflict challenges that have increased the vulnerability of women and girls to HIV infection, including gender-related violence, poverty, population displacement and limited access to education and health services.
- Charity event in Ukraine boosts youth awareness of HIV prevention
- “A healthy future starts with you” was the slogan of Race for Life, a charity event held on 9 October in Kiev, Ukraine. Over 3000 people gathered in Kiev’s city center to support people living with HIV, raise money for children born with HIV, and express their readiness to join hands to halt the epidemic.
- African law students argue against criminalisation of HIV transmission
- More than 120 young law students from 60 universities representing 24 African countries gathered in Cotonou (Benin) from 4-9 October 2010 to compete in the 19th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition.
- More than a game: using football to promote health issues in Uganda
- Although hostilities in northern Uganda ceased in 2006, the lives of young people, formerly targets for abduction by the Lord’s Resistance Army, have not been easy. During the conflict, which lasted more than 20 years, many children spent their early years confined to camps for displaced persons, while others were subjected to trauma, brutality and suffering as child soldiers.
- Women in African Parliament to accelerate action on gender and HIV
- The Global Power Africa conference opened on September 26 in Washington D.C. The event brought together women Members of Parliament and Ministers from twelve countries in Africa, to develop strategies to support the implementation of the UNAIDS Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV at country level.
- Country spotlight Kazakhstan: ‘Funding and planning a key priority for response’
- Maksut Karimovitch Kulzhanov, the head of Kazakhstan’s Public Health Institute and representative for Eastern Europe on the Board of The Global Fund, shares his views on Kazakhstan’s progress towards MDG 6.
- AIDS a key issue for international youth dialogue
- HIV and sexual and reproductive health has been identified as a central theme for discussion as part of the International Year of Youth, a United Nations (UN)-led initiative launched this month by the Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
- Exploring combination prevention: the way forward
- For every two people who start on HIV treatment, five are newly infected. With the need to focus on HIV prevention becoming ever more acute, how can those at risk of contracting HIV be targeted to produce impact? What can we scale up? How to bring coordination in interventions that complement each other? These are some of the key questions explored in a UNAIDS Satellite Session at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna.
- Country perspectives on AIDS and disabilities
- While there is a growing recognition of the interrelationships between disability and HIV, people with disabilities still lack access to HIV prevention information, treatment, care and support services.