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- ICASA 2008: Addressing the vulnerability of young women and girls to HIV in southern Africa
- Critical actions needed to tackle the vulnerability of young women and girls to HIV in southern Africa are detailed in a new publication launched by UNAIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa. The document, produced following an expert technical meeting, also summarises key research on female vulnerability in the region.
- UNAIDS Washington commemorates 20th Anniversary of World AIDS Day
- In commemoration of this year’s World AIDS Day the UNAIDS Office Washington is holding a week-long World AIDS Day visit by three women living with HIV from India, Swaziland and the US.
- New report on the State of the World Population
- Cultural sensitivity is critical for the success of development strategies according to a new report produced by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Reaching Common Ground: Culture, Gender and Human Rights, launched 12 November 2008, reports that culture is a central component of successful development of countries, and must be integrated into development policy and programming.
- Fashion designer joins hands with HIV positive women in Cambodia
- Internationally-renowned fashion designer Bibi Russell, along with UNDP and the Modern Dress Sewing Factory (MDSF) in Cambodia, has launched an international designer label “Bibi for WE”.
- Women and AIDS: First Ladies and women leaders of Latin America meet
- The Coalition of First Ladies and Women Leaders of Latin America on Women and AIDS met on 2 August and approved a statement reaffirming their commitment to advocate for improved HIV services for women and’s health.
- Positive Leadership Summit 2008
- Ahead of the Positive Leadership Summit which will begin in Mexico City on 31 July, unaids.org asked Kate Thomson, UNAIDS Chief of Civil Society Partnerships to reflect on the changing leadership role of the global positive community and today’s outstanding issues.
- UNAIDS committed to support the achievement of MDG3
- UNAIDS Executive Director Dr Peter Piot received one of the MDG3 Torches on Thursday 26 June in Geneva as part of a campaign organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark intended to ensure commitment from participants to the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3): Promote gender equality and empower women.
- Panel discussion 3: Gender equality and AIDS
- The first panel discussion on the second day of the 2008 High-Level meeting on AIDS is on the topic of gender equality and AIDS.
- Human rights and gender in HIV-related legal frameworks
- In adopting the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS in 2001 at the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, Governments have fully recognized the importance of protecting human rights and gender equality through appropriate legal frameworks in national responses to HIV.
- Leadership and AIDS: Patricia Pérez
- Leadership is the expression of a person whose aim is to transform something for the better and to develop this potential in others. Often leadership abilities are brought to the fore by certain crises in life enabling people to discover abilities that they didn’t know they had.
- Women leading the AIDS response in Latin America
- The Coalition of First Ladies and Women Leaders of Latin America on Women and AIDS held its IV meeting in the Dominican Republic on 27 and 28 March 2008.
- Abataka: Women shape their future
- International Women’s Day on 8 March is a global day of celebration to inspire women and celebrate their achievements. The theme of 2008 is “Investing in Women and Girls”. UNAIDS Special Representative Mary Fisher and the women artisans of the Abataka jewellery project believe income generation projects are critical in empowering women living with HIV, enabling them to shape their future.
- International Women's Day 2008: Investing in women and girls
- Ahead of 2008 International Women’s Day - themed “Investing in Women and Girls” - the main focus of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women was the importance of financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women.
- Uniting against female genital mutilation
- Reaffirming their commitment to the elimination of female genital mutilation, 10 United Nations bodies including UNAIDS, have expressed their commitment to support governments, communities, and women and girls to abandon the practice within a generation.
- African First Ladies meet on AIDS
- The Organisation of African First Ladies against HIV and AIDS (OAFLA), held their 5th Extra Ordinary General Assembly in Addis Ababa from 1-2 February.
- Innovative approaches at grassroots level in Zambia
- Slowing the high rate of new HIV infections among young girls in Zambia is being addressed with urgency by leadership on several levels across the country.
- Making HIV trials “work for women”
- At the end of a two-day consultation held in Geneva, health experts from international agencies, non-governmental and research organizations, universities and industry agreed on a series of steps aimed at ensuring HIV trials and interventions are designed and implemented to reflect more closely the needs of women.
- Women and HIV research
- Specialists on AIDS and women’s health meeting Geneva from December 10-11 to review the latest developments in research into preventing and treating HIV among women and adolescent girls agreed that a varied, multi-disciplined response is needed to get the best results for women and girls on AIDS issues.
- Experts meet on women and HIV clinic trials
- Specialists on AIDS and women’s health will meet in Geneva from December 10-11 to review the latest developments in research into preventing and treating HIV among women and adolescent girls from HIV infection.
- Art as an inspiration
- In February 2006, internationally renown photographer Jonathan Torgovnik travelled to Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda for Newsweek magazine to cover the 25 years of AIDS through the eyes of UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot. During the Rwanda leg of the visit, Jonathan met Margaret, who not only became the subject for his pictures—and part of the Art for AIDS collection--but an inspiration for his life. In a special interview for the three-part series on Art for AIDS, Jonathan tells www.unaids.org