Five countries met the target three years ahead of the 2020 deadline and 18 more are on track; however, most countries are lagging behind and risk missing the target completely. UNAIDS urges countries to step up action.
22 March 2019 | Email this link to me | Download PDF
A coalition of United Nations Member States, United Nations entities and leading human rights experts meeting at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, Austria, today launched a landmark set of international legal standards to transform and reshape global responses to the world drug problem.
15 March 2019 | Email this link to me | Download PDF
Expanded data collection and analysis provides better understanding of HIV epidemic in Nigeria
14 March 2019 | Email this link to me | Download PDF
A report released today by UNAIDS shows that despite a decline in new HIV infections globally, HIV incidence is not declining among people who inject drugs. HIV incidence was 1.4% among people who inject drugs worldwide in 2017 and one third of new HIV infections outside of sub-Saharan Africa are among people who inject drugs. The report also shows that 99% of people who inject drugs live in countries that do not provide adequate harm reduction service coverage.
13 March 2019 | Email this link to me | Download PDF
Every day, 460 adolescent girls become infected with HIV and every week 350 adolescent girls die of AIDS-related illnesses
08 March 2019 | Email this link to me | Download PDF
SEATTLE/GENEVA, 6 March 2019—UNAIDS welcomes the results from the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial. The results showed a 30% decline in new HIV infections where HIV prevention, including home-based HIV counselling and testing, was provided, as well as referral to HIV care and treatment for people testing positive for HIV according to country guidelines.
06 March 2019 | Email this link to me | Download PDF
SEATTLE/GENEVA, 5 March 2019—UNAIDS is greatly encouraged by the news that an HIV-positive man has been functionally cured of HIV. The man was treated by specialists at University College London and Imperial College London for advanced Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2016 using stem cell transplants from a donor who carried a rare genetic mutation. Researchers report that HIV has been undetectable in the man since he stopped taking antiretroviral medicine 18 months ago.
05 March 2019 | Email this link to me | Download PDF
On Zero Discrimination Day, UNAIDS calls on countries to examine discriminatory provisions in their laws and policies and make positive changes to ensure equality, inclusion and protection
01 March 2019 | Email this link to me | Download PDF
My call this year is focused on changing discriminatory laws and practices that block people from accessing health and other life-saving services.
01 March 2019 | Email this link to me | Download PDF
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Shannon Hader as the new Deputy Executive Director of Programme of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations.
12 February 2019 | Email this link to me | Download PDF
The African Union has passed a motion of support for the Executive Director of UNAIDS Michel Sidibé recognizing that the invaluable work of UNAIDS, under the leadership of Mr Sidibé, has saved many lives and has had a decisive impact on the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
11 February 2019 | Email this link to me | Download PDF
UNAIDS welcomes the pledge by the President of the United States of America to stop HIV transmission in the country by 2030. The President made the announcement during his State of the Union Address to Congress on 5 February 2019.
06 February 2019 | Email this link to me | Download PDF
During a visit to the Good Samaritan Foundation and Home for people living with HIV in Panama, Pope Francis has urged people not to discriminate against their neighbours. The Good Samaritan Foundation and Home, or Casa Hogar El Buen Samaritano, is currently home to 16 people living with HIV aged from 16 to 60 years. They were among the first to be greeted by His Holiness during his visit.
28 January 2019 | Email this link to me | Download PDF
At a high-level meeting in Dakar, Senegal, UNAIDS, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries in western and central Africa to do more to stop new HIV infections among children and adolescents and increase HIV testing and treatment coverage.
16 January 2019 | Email this link to me | Download PDF
As the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) launches its sixth replenishment for its next three-year funding cycle, UNAIDS is urging donors to fully fund the Global Fund.
11 January 2019 | Email this link to me | Download PDF
UNAIDS warmly welcomes the appointment of Rico Gustav as the Executive Director of the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+).
11 January 2019 | Email this link to me | Download PDF
