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More Strategic Country Support Division Feature Stories
- Horn of Africa in crisis: famine, displacement and HIV
- The ongoing drought and famine in the Horn of Africa has put the lives of millions of people in Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti and Ethiopia at serious risk. An estimated 13 million people in the region are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, including food and medical care.
- Progress in Mozambique's HIV response, but more focus needed on HIV prevention
- In a meeting with Armando Emilio Guebuza, President of Mozambique, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé commended the Government of Mozambique on progress in the national response to HIV, which has resulted in a reduction in new HIV infections and expanded access to antiretroviral treatment.
- UNAIDS Executive Director commends the Government of Mozambique for its action on the 2011 Political Declaration on AIDS
- UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé met with Mozambique’s Prime Minister, H.E. Aires Aly Bonifácio as part of his four-day official visit to the country.
- ‘Thinking politically’: strategies for effective responses to HIV in Asia and the Pacific
- Activists, academics and HIV programme implementers met in Busan, South Korea at the 10th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP 10) to explore and debate the political complexities of HIV responses. The event, entitled ‘Political Sciences and the Politics of HIV in Asia and the Pacific,’ shed light on the often highly political nature of responses to the epidemic.
- New UNAIDS report shows HIV epidemic at critical juncture in Asia-Pacific region
- The AIDS epidemic in Asia and the Pacific is at a crossroads, according to a new report from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). While the region has seen impressive gains—including a 20% drop in new HIV infections since 2001 and a three-fold increase in access to antiretroviral therapy since 2006—progress is threatened by an inadequate focus on key populations at higher risk of HIV infection and insufficient funding from both domestic and international sources.
- World Humanitarian Day: celebrating people helping people
- Every day humanitarian aid workers help millions of people around the world. World Humanitarian Day, marked on August 19, is an opportunity to celebrate people helping people.
- Country ownership and capacity development central in moving forward the response to AIDS
- Following the High Level Meeting on AIDS where world leaders agreed on bold targets, UNAIDS convened a workshop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to strengthen investments in capacity development of six sub-Saharan African countries.
- China commits to UNAIDS vision of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths
- Vice Premier of China stresses the importance of “Three Zeros” vision in China’s national AIDS strategy and underlines importance of community participation in responding to HIV.
- UNAIDS Executive Director commends the Government of China for its leadership in the HIV response
- In an official meeting today in Beijing with Dr Chen Zhu, China’s Minister of Health, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé praised China’s commitment and leadership in the national response to HIV.
- Bipartisan Indian political leadership pledges to sustain India’s successful AIDS response
- Backed by strong bipartisan political support and a vibrant civil society movement, India’s AIDS response has transformed in the last ten years. New HIV infections in the country have fallen by more than 50% in the last decade. Yet the HIV prevention and treatment gap in India remains high.
- Myanmar’s national plan for AIDS confirms commitment to reach universal access by 2015
- Myanmar’s AIDS response received a boost with the launch of the new National Strategic Plan for AIDS, which reconfirmed the country’s commitment to reach universal access to HIV services by 2015.
- Russian Federation leadership in regional efforts to achieve MDG 6 is key: UNAIDS Executive Director
- In a one-day visit to Moscow on 29 June, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé praised the commitment and leadership of the Russian Federation in national and regional efforts to achieve Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6—a global target that calls for halting and beginning to reverse the spread of HIV and other diseases by the year 2015.
- International Advisory Group convenes to rally solidarity for universal access to HIV services
- The International Advisory Group (IAG) on universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, convened on the eve of the 2011 UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS to rally solidarity for universal access to HIV services.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- UN Economic and Social Commission in Asia and Pacific members adopt new Resolution on HIV ahead of High Level Meeting on AIDS
- In the lead-up to the 2011 General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS to take place in New York from 8-10 June, the 62 Members and Associate Members of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission in Asia and the Pacific have unanimously adopted a new Resolution on HIV.
- New manual and workbook for costing HIV facilities and services in countries aims to standardize data collection to improve planning
- To help countries monitor and evaluate the economic aspects of HIV service provision, UNAIDS has produced a generic HIV facility costing document titled Manual for Costing HIV Facilities and Services and an accompanying workbook entitled Workbook for collection of Cost Information of HIV Services.
- On the front line: Report outlines progress made and the obstacles encountered in implementing Security Council Resolution 1308
- UNAIDS and the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) have published a new report outlining the progress made and the obstacles encountered in implementing Security Council Resolution 1308.
- Prime Minister of Bangladesh highlights country’s HIV success story during World Health Assembly
- In her keynote address to the 2011 World Health Assembly, taking place in Geneva from 16-24 May, Prime Minister of Bangladesh Her Excellency Sheikh Hasina highlighted the progress made by her country in the response to HIV.