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- UNAIDS calls better integration of HIV prevention and treatment in maternal, newborn and child health programmes in Ethiopia
- The Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé paid a visit to Ethiopia to discuss ways of accelerating progress towards achieving universal access to HIV services and reaching the Millennium Development Goals in the country.
- UNAIDS and funders convene to discuss ending vertical transmission of HIV at AIDS 2010
- Continuing UNAIDS' efforts to end mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 2015, earlier today, UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director, Management and External Relations Branch, Ms Jan Beagle addressed a meeting of funders already committed to this action, at a side event of the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna.
- UNAIDS satellite explores paving the way towards virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV
- UNAIDS hosted a satellite at AIDS 2010 on preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV 19 July. It was co-chaired by Antony Lake, Executive Director of UNICEF and Hiroki Nakatani, Assistant Director General of World Health Organization (WHO) and coordinated by Gottfried Hirnschall, Director of the HIV department (WHO). Opening remarks were delivered by Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS and Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and Ambassador Eric Goosby, United States Global AIDS Coordinator.
- Ahead of World Cup, national team captains appeal: “Give AIDS the red card”
- Captains of South Africa, Nigeria, France, Paraguay, Uruguay, Australia, Cote D'Ivoire, Uruguay, Greece, and Serbia national teams join appeal to prevent mothers from dying and babies from becoming infected with HIV.
- African Ambassadors and UNAIDS join hands to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV
- GENEVA, 2 June 2010—Preventing the transmission of HIV from mother to child was high on the agenda at a meeting in Geneva of 50 Ambassadors to the African Union and UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé.
- Linking maternal and child health to AIDS ahead of G8 Summit
- At an event for Canadian Parliamentarians, UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director, Jan Beagle, made the links between the 2010 G8 focus on maternal and child health and previous G8 commitments on AIDS.
- Africa prepares to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 2015
- UNAIDS Executive Director Mr Michel Sidibé has called for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 2015. Africa is responding to this call. This week participants from 20 countries with the highest burden of infections among pregnant women are meeting in Nairobi to chart a course of action to accelerate access to the needed HIV services.
- UNDP’s Administrator Helen Clark concludes four-country Africa tour
- The Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Helen Clark recently ended a four-country tour of Africa to highlight progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the run-up to the MDGs Summit in September 2010. Ms Clark travelled to Mali, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, and South Africa.
- A mother’s joy, a mother’s challenge: Cameroon copes with mother to child HIV transmission
- After almost ten years, 28-year old Angele is a mother again. “My daughter is my joy. She is such a wonder,” said the young woman who wishes to keep her identity a secret as she is living with HIV in Oug-ebe, a shantytown in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
- ‘BORN HIV FREE’ campaign launched by The Global Fund
- The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has launched a new campaign BORN HIV FREE to mobilize public support for its work and contribute to the global effort for a world where no child is born with HIV by 2015. At the core of the campaign, originated and supported by Global Fund Ambassador, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, is a series of creative films intended to inspire people to sign up online in support of The Global Fund’s mission.
- President Kabila commits to ensuring an AIDS-free generation in Democratic Republic of Congo
- President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has pledged to promote the emergence an AIDS-Free Generation, to ensure safer motherhood and to eliminate mother-child-transmission of HIV in his country.
- Joint Mission to Mali Concludes
- On the fourth and final day of their official visit to Mali, UNDP Administrator Helen Clark and UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé commended President Amadou Toumani Touré on achievements in the country’s AIDS response and said that Mali had set an example for other countries in the region to follow.
- New WHO strategy calls for elimination of HIV in children by 2015
- Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV is one of the key pillars in the worldwide response to the AIDS epidemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently published a strategy paper outlining its commitment to support country-level and global efforts to scale up PMTCT services and to integrate them into maternal, newborn and child health programmes.
- No African child should be born with HIV by 2015
- During an official visit to Senegal, the UNAIDS Executive Director was received by the President, Mr Abdoulaye Wade, on 19 April.
- New study shows significant drop in maternal deaths
- A new study published in the medical journal the Lancet found that, for the first time in decades, the number of women dying each year from pregnancy and childbirth had significantly drop. Researchers estimate that maternal deaths fell from 526 300 in 1980 to 343 900 in 2008.
- UNICEF Executive Director launches 'Facts for Life' in Lesotho
- During a visit to Lesotho UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman (give date) launched Facts for Life, a publication that delivers life-saving information to families and communities on how to prevent child and maternal deaths, diseases, injuries and violence.
- New campaign to help prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Lesotho
- Malekena George, from Lesotho’s Berea district, is eight months pregnant and living with HIV. The Lesotho Ministry of Health, with help from UNICEF and other partners, is working to ensure that her second baby is not born with HIV.
- UNAIDS and Private sector meet to explore collaboration towards virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission
- On 15 March 2010, UNAIDS Executive Director, Michel Sidibé met with more than 15 private sector companies affiliated with the Global Business Coalition on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC). Mr Sidibé highlighted UNAIDS’ priorities for 2010-11 and reiterated his call for the virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission by 2015.
- Global Fund: Elimination of HIV transmission from mother to child by 2015 within reach
- Virtual elimination of mother to child HIV transmission by 2015 is now within reach if current rates of progress by Global Fund-supported programmes and other efforts are maintained. Malaria may be eliminated as a public health problem within a decade in most countries where it is endemic. Tuberculosis prevalence in many countries is declining and the international target of halving TB prevalence could be met by 2015.
- Global Fund projects that UNAIDS’ call for elimination of mother–to-child HIV transmission by 2015 is within reach
- A new report by the Global Fund projects that UNAIDS’ call for the virtual elimination of mother–to-child transmission by 2015 is within reach. UNAIDS’ Executive Director and South Africa’s Health Minister joined the Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for the launch of the Global Fund 2010 Results Report in South Africa which highlights progress made towards these three diseases.