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- International consultation focuses on access to HIV medicines for middle-income countries
- The critical issues that middle-income countries face in ensuring they have access to affordable and high-quality HIV medicines were explored during a consultation held in Brazil’s capital Brasilia this week.
- Rio+20: The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
- The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio+20 will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 20-22 June. The high-level meeting brings together more than 100 Heads of State and government, along with UN officials and representatives of the private sector and civil society to shape new policies to promote prosperity, reduce poverty and advance social equity and environmental protection.
- Brazil’s Minister of Health and UNAIDS Executive Director discuss strategic collaboration opportunities
- In the sidelines of the World Health Assembly, taking place in Geneva from 16-24 May, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé and Brazilian Minister of Health Alexander Padilha met to discuss the global AIDS response and promote South-South cooperation.
- 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.
- Power of words: Brazil LGBT launch guide for media
- The Brazilian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transvestite and Transsexual (LGBT) Association (Associação Brasileira de Gays, Lésbicas, Bissexuais, Travestis e Transexuais or ABGLT) recently launched an “LGBT Communication Manual” aimed at communication professionals, students and teachers to reduce the use of inappropriate language that prejudices, or perpetuates misunderstandings about the millions Brazilian LGBT people and their supporters.
- Brazil post offices join Global HIV Awareness Campaign
- For the first time in Brazil, post offices will join efforts to prevent new HIV infections. The local take on the global campaign “Post Offices Fighting Against AIDS”, was launched Tuesday 9 February in a post office in Brasilia, the capital of the country.
- “Just like you” video campaign against stigma and prejudice launched in Brazil
- New campaign to be broadcast by television across Brazil highlights rights of students, gay men, lesbians, people living with HIV, the Afro-Brazilian population, sex workers, refugees, transsexuals and transvestites and drug users.
- Brazilian national Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Association awarded consultative status to the UN
- The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has for the first time awarded consultative status to a Latin-American non-governmental organization representing the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.
- UNODC and Brazil promote action on AIDS in prison settings
- Much more needs to be done to improve AIDS prevention, treatment and care services in Brazil’s prisons. This was the major conclusion emerging from the first national consultation on HIV in prison settings which took place in Brasilia between 31 March and 2 April.
- UNAIDS Executive Director meets with Brazilian Government and civil society
- The upcoming Group of Twenty (G20) meeting in London, the global financial crisis, and universal access were some of the main topics Mr Michel Sidibé and Brazilian Government counterparts discussed during his first official visit to Brazil as the Executive Director of UNAIDS.
- Brazilian children’s society offers a home from home for children living with HIV
- Viva Cazuza has been working for nearly two decades in Rio de Janeiro to give orphaned children and young people living with HIV a safe haven, antiretroviral treatment and access to programmes to gain confidence and build leadership skills.
- UNAIDS Executive Director meets with TB Programme Managers, TB civil society
- Mr Michel Sidibé, the Executive Director of UNAIDS, met with managers of national TB programmes and civil society representatives at the 3rd Stop TB Partners Forum to hear their views on ways to improve the joint response to TB and HIV.
- Need for scale up in integrated TB and HIV screening to address linked epidemics
- Although it is mostly preventable and curable, tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of death among people living with HIV globally. Of the 33 million people who are living with HIV, only 20% of know their status, and only a tiny fraction, 2% in 2007, were screened for TB according to the World Health Organization’s annual report on global TB control launched today.
- TB/HIV, universal access, and human rights key items on UNAIDS Executive Director’s agenda in Brazil
- The Executive Director of UNAIDS, Mr Michel Sidibé, is in Brazil this week promoting greater awareness of the interlinked epidemics of HIV and tuberculosis, the need for universal access to HIV services for all people in need, and the necessity to address stigma and discrimination in Brazil’s response to HIV.
- HIV prevention hampered by homophobia
- Every two or three days a person is killed in Brazil in violence connected with his or her sexuality, according to Brazil’s oldest gay rights association, Grupo Gay da Bahia (GGB). In Mexico, the reported figure is nearly two a week.
- Business coalitions from Latin America and the Caribbean gather in Brazil
- Business Coalitions on AIDS have emerged as an effective platform for the private sector response to the epidemic. UNAIDS and the Brazilian Business Council on HIV-AIDS Prevention recently convened a workshop of business coalitions and initiatives from Latin America and the Caribbean to recognize the role that the private sector play in the response to HIV and exchange experiences, challenges and opportunities.
- Strengthening the AIDS response in Portuguese speaking countries
- In order to highlight the issue of HIV during the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) Heads of State’s Summit and to foster a new generation of leaders committed to the AIDS response, UNAIDS in partnership with the CPLP and National Portuguese Television (RTP) are holding a televised town hall on AIDS.
- 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 and Brazil to strengthen technical cooperation on AIDS
- UNAIDS and the government of Brazil signed an agreement on Wednesday 21st of May, 2008 to continue their cooperation on providing technical support to countries in strengthening and scaling-up national responses to AIDS through the International Centre for Technical Cooperation on HIV/AIDS (ICTC).
- Brazil shares best AIDS practice with parliamentarians
- International politicians seeking guidance on how to better prevent and treat HIV joined community health workers in Brazil as they made their house calls.