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“To end AIDS, we need innovation, shared responsibility, mutual accountability and global solidarity”
23 July 2012|
At the plenary session titled Turning the Tide in Affected Countries (leadership, accountability and targets), UNAIDS Director, Regional Support Team, Eastern and Southern Africa, Professor Sheila Tlou, took stock of the progress made in the AIDS response to date and pointed out the challenges remaining to overcome the AIDS epidemic.
A decade of progress and sustained funding for HIV prevention research provides a pathway for ending AIDS
23 July 2012|
A decade of unprecedented investment in HIV prevention research has led to major scientific breakthroughs in vaccines, microbicides, voluntary medical male circumcision, treatment as prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, but sustained financing will be needed to capitalize on these breakthroughs to deliver new options that can help end the AIDS pandemic, according to a new report released today at the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC.
Workshop to include people with disabilities in HIV policy
23 July 2012|
Skills-building workshop discusses the importance of integrating the needs of people with disabilities into the AIDS response
HIV Travel Restrictions: Latest Developments
22 July 2012|
Co-hosted by UNAIDS and the Government of the Republic of Korea, the satellite session on HIV Travel Restrictions: Latest Developments aimed to hear new developments in Korea about their own restrictions as well as to take stock of where the global situation of travel restrictions stands some 30 years into the epidemic.
TB and HIV integration discussed at AIDS 2012
22 July 2012|
To give voice to TB and HIV affected communities around the world by sharing their experience and views on the way forward in the fight against the two diseases, a live web casted talk show took place at the Newseum during the International AIDS Conference entitled “Tuberculosis + HIV: Protecting the Vulnerable”.
The HIV experience and other chronic diseases
22 July 2012|
Taking HIV out of isolation, a satellite session at the 19th International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC, examined ways in which service delivery systems have evolved in addressing HIV as a chronic health issue.
More effective AIDS coordination at country level discussed at AIDS 2012
22 July 2012|
To review lessons learned and establish key principles for more effective coordination of the AIDS response, a meeting took place during the International AIDS Conference entitled Fit for purpose: striving for more effective AIDS coordination at country level.
The importance of remembering: The AIDS Memorial Quilt unveils at AIDS 2012
21 July 2012|
As thousands of delegates from around the world gather for the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, one of the key symbols of the global response past and present, was unveiled across the metropolitan DC area.
Pre-conference focuses on HIV and human rights concerns of gay and other men who have sex with men and transgender people
21 July 2012|
The Global Forum on MSM and HIV (MSMGF) organised a fifth biennial gathering of activists, researchers, global donors and other key stakeholders to focus on HIV and human rights concerns of gay, other men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people.
People living with HIV meet for strengthened AIDS response
20 July 2012|
People living with HIV from around the globe met in Washington, DC to identify the advocacy and policy positions that will re-define the global advocacy agenda for people living with HIV in response to a changing epidemic.
Faith community take action on health, dignity and justice in the context of HIV
20 July 2012|
What is the added value of faith communities taking action on health, dignity and justice in the context of HIV? This was the fundamental question addressed by participants at the interfaith event held in Washington DC on 20 July 2012. Taking Action for Health, Dignity and Justice explored ways in which faith communities can use both advocacy and on-the-ground responses to address the root causes of vulnerability to HIV and promote a more just, equitable and inclusive societies.
Young people to put themselves at the heart of AIDS 2012
18 July 2012|
Every day 2 400 young people aged 15 to 24 are infected with HIV around the globe, which represents 40% of all new infections among adults. With this age group bearing a significant burden of the epidemic, they must be central to the AIDS response. An event on the eve of AIDS 2012 is bringing together around 200 young people to ensure that youth participation in the major international AIDS gathering of the year is meaningful and effective.
UNAIDS to launch new report –Together we will end AIDS
17 July 2012|
The new 2012 UNAIDS report Together we will end AIDS will be launched ahead of the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC, which is taking place from 22-27 July.
Global Commission on Law urges countries to make the law work for HIV, not against it
11 July 2012|
The Global Commission on HIV and the Law launched its landmark report on 9 July 2012 at UN Headquarters in New York. The new report denounces the detrimental impact that punitive laws have on human rights and the HIV response and makes bold recommendations for addressing them.
Achieving 2015 Targets through Strategic AIDS Financing
12 June 2012|
Coinciding with the 2012 General Assembly AIDS review, the Permanent Missions of Malawi and Luxembourg to the United Nations and UNAIDS organized a panel discussion to further understand the strategic investments needed for the AIDS response. The discussion brought together representatives of member states, UN organizations and civil society.
Influential leaders champion the role of the private sector in challenging HIV and global health threats
15 May 2012|
Taking stock of the successes, challenges and future of the global AIDS response after three decades was at the core of the Global Business Coalition annual conference on Health (GBCHealth) held from 14-15 May in New York.
ACT UP turns 25—marking a quarter century of AIDS activism
23 April 2012|
AIDS activism had its start with groups like ACT UP—the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. Twenty-five years ago this month, Larry Kramer was speaking from his heart in New York and galvanizing what would become the first group to use political advocacy to change the course of the AIDS epidemic.
World Summit of Mayors from Africa and the Diaspora focuses on HIV in urban areas
22 December 2011|
More than 250 mayors from sub-Saharan Africa and of African descent from the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America focused on strengthening the AIDS response in urban areas during an historic conference held in Dakar, Senegal from 15-19 December.
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, speaks at UNAIDS' Washington, DC Commemoration
04 December 2011|
On a day when President Barack Obama announced new United States’ commitments to the AIDS response, the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, spoke at a Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS(UNAIDS) hosted World AIDS Day commemoration event entitled "From Local to Global: Finding Common Cause in the AIDS Response".
UNAIDS welcomes continued leadership and commitment of the United States to the AIDS response
08 November 2011|
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) commends the United States Government on its continued leadership in the AIDS response following the call by the US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for global solidarity to “change the course of the epidemic and usher in an AIDS-free generation”.

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21 May 2013

UNAIDS reports more than 7 million people now on HIV treatment across Africa––with nearly 1 million added in the last year—while new HIV infections and deaths from AIDS continue to fall . More

21 May 2013

UNAIDS saddened by death of human rights activist Shivananda Khan. More

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