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More feature stories on HIV treatment
- UNAIDS Head visits oldest HIV treatment centre in Karnataka
- Concluding his official visit to India, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé yesterday visited the HIV treatment centre at Bowring & Lady Curzon Hospitals in Bangalore. The government run centre is the largest and oldest in Karnataka and has the highest rate of integrated HIV and TB services in India. The treatment centre is also one of the few sites able to both evaluate, with a viral load test, when first line treatment is failing, and provide access and establish people on second line treatment.
- More than four million HIV-positive people now receiving life-saving treatment
- More than 4 million people in low- and middle-income countries were receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) at the close of 2008, representing a 36% increase in one year and a ten-fold increase over five years, according to a new report released today by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
- Resources for regular lab tests could be used for HIV treatment
- Having 12 children and a very old mother to support, Vincent, middle-aged Ugandan single father living with HIV, knows that his death would spell disaster for the whole family. “If I had died, where would these people go?” said Vincent perched on a stool with his legs outstretched.
- HIV Treatment data update – July 2009
- Substantial progress has been made in increasing access to treatment in low and middle income countries.
- Dispatch from the field: WHO HIV Director tours pioneering treatment clinic in Namibia
- In the first of a new World Health Organization web series called Dispatch from the field, Dr Kevin De Cock, undertaking his last mission as Director of the WHO HIV/AIDS Department, visited Katutura State Hospital in Windhoek, Namibia. He praised efforts by the hospital, national authorities and health-care providers to expand antiretroviral treatment (ART) in a country where almost 90% of those in need of ART receive it.
- Funding for AIDS drugs in jeopardy as global financial crisis hits health sector
- A new report from the World Bank reports preliminary findings from a survey in 69 countries conducted by the World Bank, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization showing that respondents in 22 countries in Africa, the Caribbean, Europe and Central Asia, and Asia and Pacific expect the economic crisis to impact HIV treatment programmes over the coming year.
- US AIDS relief programme exceeds goals for HIV treatment and care
- According to the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) 2009 Annual Report, PEPFAR has exceeded its five-year goals for treatment of two million and care of ten million people.
- Universal access to affordable AIDS commodities
- As part of the 2008 High level Meeting on AIDS, a special event entitled “Universal access to affordable diagnostics, prevention and treatment: In search for sustainable solutions” will be held on 9th June in the United Nations Headquarters, New York.
- HIV treatment figures up by 46.5%
- Some 3 million people now have access to antiretroviral therapy according to a report issued today by WHO, UNAIDS and UNICEF.
- New UNAIDS policy on HIV, food security and nutrition
- In many parts of the world, lack of food security and poor nutrition are worsening the effects of the HIV epidemic.
- Leadership and AIDS: Gregg Gonsalves
- Gregg has been working on behalf of people living with HIV since 1990 when he joined ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) in the United States. In the early nineties, very little was understood about how the virus worked or how the immune system was damaged by it and there were no effective treatments to counter the progress of the disease. Most discussion about AIDS was taking place in the domain of the scientific community.
- One year on: UNITAID celebrates achievements
- One year on since its establishment, the international drug purchase facility – UNITAID – is celebrating a number of key achievements including price reductions and increased delivery of AIDS treatment.
- Treatment figures reach 2 million
- WHO, UNAIDS and UNICEF have launched a new report on scaling up priority AIDS interventions in the health sector.
- Access to treatment: Secretary General and pharmaceutical companies meet
- The UN Secretary General, CEOs from the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies and UN officials met in New York to explore ways in which the companies and United Nations can work collaboratively in expanding access to HIV treatment and care in developing countries.