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Strategy recommendations for collaborating with a new generation of leaders for the AIDS response

UNAIDS — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

This document provides a set of recommendations for strategic actions that the UNAIDS Secretariat should undertake to collaborate effectively with a new generation of young leaders to ensure that the ambitious goals set by world leaders for the AIDS response are reached by 2015. The recommendations were compiled by an independent, youth-led Drafting Committee, in dialogue with the UNAIDS Secretariat, on behalf of more than 5000 young people who took part in CrowdOutAIDS. This document represents the first crowdsourced strategy in the history of the UN.

Letter to partners 2012: Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, UNAIDS

UNAIDS — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

If the history of AIDS has taught us anything, it is that epidemics don’t occur in a vacuum. HIV has exploited our social and political shortcomings—and it has shown again and again that an effective response must span the health sector and go beyond it to address the laws, attitudes and economic injustices that make infection more likely and more lethal.

HIV and hormonal contraception: FAQ

UNAIDS — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT

WHO has announced in February 2012 that its current recommendation—no restrictions on the use of hormonal contraceptives to avoid unintended pregnancies for women at high risk of, or living with HIV—remains unchanged. They also recommend that women using progestogen-only injectable contraceptives also use condoms or other measures to prevent HIV infection.

AIDS Dependency Crisis: Sourcing African Solutions

UNAIDS — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The past decade has seen a remarkable transformation across the African Continent—an expression of hardearned progress and promise even in the midst of a global financial crisis. This is an era of unprecedented economic growth, socially sustainable gains and strong African leadership. And today almost every country in Africa has a success story to tell, a story of lives saved through stopping new HIV infections and preventing AIDS-related deaths.

UNAIDS guidance for partnerships with civil society, including people living with HIV and key populations

UNAIDS — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

This document provides guidance on how The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), its Cosponsors and Secretariat (working at national, regional and global levels) should strengthen and operationalize meaningful and respectful partnership work with civil society. It should enable the UN to deliver the targets and elimination commitments agreed in the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS.

Ten targets: 2011 United Nations General Assembly Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS: Targets and elimination commitments

UNAIDS — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by 2015

Ten reasons to support UNAIDS

UNAIDS — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

A brochure outlining ten reasons to support UNAIDS

Middle East and North Africa - Regional Report on AIDS: 2011

UNAIDS — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, the HIV epidemic has been on the rise since 2001. Although the overall HIV prevalence in the region is still low, the rise in new infections has put MENA among the top two regions in the world with the fastest growing HIV epidemic. The rise in the estimated number of people living with HIV in the region presumably is the result of an increased HIV prevalence among key populations at higher risk and a forward transmission of the virus to a larger number of individuals who are generally at lower risk of infection.

UNAIDS Data Tables 2011

UNAIDS — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The data tables describe in greater detail the progress being made against the HIV epidemic and the main challenges to achieving zero HIV infections and zero AIDS deaths. The data are drawn from country progress reports and will be updated regularly. This document reflects information found in the publication ‘Global HIV/AIDS response: epidemic update and health sector progress towards universal access: progress report 2011’, by UNAIDS, UNICEF and WHO.

Global HIV/AIDS Response - Progress Report 2011

UNAIDS — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This documents the extraordinary progress achieved over the past decade in the health sector response to HIV. Access to evidence-informed HIV prevention, testing and counselling, treatment and care services in low- and middle-income countries has expanded dramatically.