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- 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
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- Eliminating gender inequalities
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- 2011 Political Declaration: Targets and elimination commitments
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- Contemporary African art and AIDS
- Tradition, nature, myths and day-to-day life are sources of inspiration that shape the works of contemporary African artists.
- Fashionable jobs for people living with HIV
- The Algerian association of people living with HIV, El Hayet, has launched a pilot project to help people living with HIV get back into the workplace.
- UNAIDS helps secure grants in the Middle East and North Africa
- The number of people living with HIV in the Middle East and North Africa has risen to 460,000 and some 68,000 people were newly infected in 2006 alone. In a bid to curb the region’s growing epidemic, five countries have been working with UNAIDS to prepare HIV grant proposals to the 6th Round of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, four of which were successful in obtaining additional funding for the national AIDS response.
- Increased HIV services for drug users needed
- Increasing access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services for drug users and their partners is crucial to addressing the issue of growing HIV infections related to injecting drug use in the Middle East and North Africa region.
- Addressing HIV and drug use in the Middle East and North Africa
- Injecting drug use is an increasingly important factor in the HIV epidemics of the Middle East and North Africa. To better address the issue, wide-ranging partnerships are needed to help increase HIV treatment, prevention and care programmes for drug users and their partners.
- Summer caravan drives forward HIV prevention efforts in Morocco
- Caravanning in Morocco has taken a whole new meaning with a special summer caravan travelling around the country in a quest to raise awareness about HIV prevention among young people.