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More Strategic Country Support Division Feature Stories
- UN Secretary-General outlines new recommendations to reach 2015 goals for AIDS response
- Thirty years into the AIDS epidemic, investments in the AIDS response are yielding results, according to a new report released today by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Titled Uniting for universal access: towards zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths, the report highlights that the global rate of new HIV infections is declining, treatment access is expanding and the world has made significant strides in reducing HIV transmission from mother to child.
- Investment in HIV prevention among key populations and scale up of HIV treatment coverage key to universal access in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- Insufficient investment in programmes to prevent HIV infection among key populations at higher risk is hampering efforts to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
- Addressing stigma and discrimination and homophobia key to achieving universal access in Latin America
- The Secretary of Health of Mexico, Dr José A. Córdova, called on countries in Latin America to continue efforts to counter stigma, discrimination and homophobia in the region.
- National ownership of the AIDS response essential for universal access in West and Central Africa
- Stakeholders in the AIDS response across West and Central Africa met in Dakar, Senegal from 3–4 March 2011 to review progress made towards achieving universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.
- UNHCR: Countering stigma and silence about HIV among refugees and host communities in northern Ecuador
- A special UNHCR programme to prevent HIV has been implemented by community health workers, and is helping to educate refugees and host communities in isolated areas of the jungle surrounding Lago Agrio.
- Young people to call for strengthened HIV prevention at the regional universal access consultation in Latin America
- From Brazil to Mexico young people in Latin America are busily coordinating their inputs to communicate a unified message in the upcoming regional universal access consultation to be held 1-2 March 2011 in Mexico.
- Kenya to adopt comprehensive HIV prevention package for people who inject drugs
- The Kenyan government is taking an innovative approach to reducing HIV among injecting drug users. In a bold new initiative, the government is set to give drug users free access to HIV prevention and treatment services.
- Letter to Partners 2011: UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé
- Letter to Partners 2011: UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé
- 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.
- South Sudan addresses concerns of HIV-affected refugees
- Mary Kiden is a refugee in Uganda who is living with HIV and taking antiretroviral medicines. She wants to return home to southern Sudan but worries about whether her medical needs will be met. To help her make up her mind UNHCR recently invited Mary to join a ‘go-and-see’ visit to her former home. She was pleasantly surprised by what she found.
- South-South expo spotlights role of southern leadership in the AIDS response
- The recently concluded Global South-South Development (GSSD) Expo in Geneva, Switzerland revealed how partnerships among countries in the South have brought forward innovative solutions to address challenging and sensitive issues in the AIDS response.
- Rwanda launches Agenda for Accelerated action for Women and Girls in the Response to HIV
- Rwanda’s National Accelerated Plan for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV 2010-2014 was unveiled on 10 November at an event at the Parliament, in the capital Kigali.
- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits “one-stop shop” health centre for HIV services in Hanoi, Viet Nam
- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited a “one-stop shop” health centre for HIV services in Hanoi, Viet Nam on 29 October together with H.E. Mr Truong Vinh Trong, Deputy Prime Minster and chairman of the National Committee on AIDS, and delegates of the United Nations Country Team.
- HIV and conflict: Connections and the need for universal access
- A special supplement on HIV has been published by the journal Forced Migration Review in which a UNAIDS paper highlights the need for universal access to HIV services. The edition is based on the work of the AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative which undertook research over a number of years to gather evidence and advance analysis on the connections between HIV and conflict.
- 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.
- 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.
- Expanding HIV services in post-conflict Liberia
- UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé and UNAIDS and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador HRH Princess Mathilde of Belgium, wrapped up a joint three-day mission to Liberia, which as a post-conflict country is working hard to expand its HIV services.
- Benin, EU and UNAIDS cooperate on technical support for HIV response
- On 14 October the Government of Benin, European Union and the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a Technical Support Plan to enhance coordination of the AIDS response in Benin and improve the implementation of the Global Fund grants.
- 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.
- High-level mission urges Vietnam to optimize use of resources to achieve universal access
- A UN high-level delegation headed by the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, Dr Nafis Sadik and Special Advisor to the UNAIDS Executive Director, Mr JVR Prasada Rao visited Vietnam this week to discuss its AIDS response with key stakeholders — including Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong, Chairman of the National Committee for AIDS, Drugs and Sex Work Prevention and Control.