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- Joint action for results: UNAIDS outcome framework, 2009 – 2011
- The HIV organizational landscape has evolved and grown more complex over the past decade. UNAIDS, donors and civil society, including networks of people living with HIV, have rightly demanded greater clarity on the relationships between needs, financing, activities and outcomes. Also demanded is greater specificity about the role of UNAIDS and the Secretariat within the wider constellation of actors.
- OPINION: HIV and drugs: two epidemics - one combined strategy
- By Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Geneva, Switzerland
- International Harm Reduction conference opens in Bangkok
- Delegates are gathering in Thailand’s capital this week for the 20th international conference on harm reduction running from 20 to 23 April. Organized by the International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA), the conference’s theme is human rights, underscoring the necessity of injecting drug users’ universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support including comprehensive harm reduction programmes.
- UNAIDS Committee of Cosponsoring Organizations meet
- The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) brings together the efforts and resources of ten UN system organizations in the AIDS response. The UNAIDS Committee of Cosponsoring Organizations (CCO) serves as the forum for these Cosponsors to meet on a regular basis to consider matters of major importance to UNAIDS, and to provide input from the Cosponsoring organizations into the policies and strategies of UNAIDS.
- UNODC and Iran sign agreements to reduce vulnerability of women and Afghan refugees to drugs and HIV
- The Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Maria Costa, and the Deputy Secretary General of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Drug Control Headquarters, Taha Taheri signed, on 19 March, two projects to provide HIV prevention and care services to Afghan refugees and female drug users in Iran. These projects will be launched thanks to funding from the Government of the Netherlands.
- Injecting drug use and HIV: Interview with UNAIDS Team Leader, Prevention, Care and Support team
- The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) is meeting at the United Nations Office in Vienna for its 52 session, from 11-20 March 2009. At this session, governments will assess the progress achieved in meeting the goals defined in the 1998 UN General Assembly Special Session on Illicit Drugs.
- OPINION: Silence on harm reduction not an option
- In 1998, the UN General Assembly held a Special Session on the world drug problem. At the time there was little discussion on the linkage between HIV and drugs. Today of the estimated 16 million people world wide who inject drugs—3 million are HIV positive. Any discussion on drugs cannot ignore their needs and human rights.
- ICASA 2008: HIV in prison settings
- “If we do not implement adequate measures to prevent HIV infection in prisons, people incarcerated will always be vulnerable to the disease,” said Mr Gallo Diop, a former prisoner and AIDS advocate from Senegal. Mr Diop was speaking on Friday 05 December at an ICASA session organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) titled “HIV and AIDS prevention, care, treatment and support in prison settings”.
- Police in India commit to support community AIDS responses
- Under a government initiative, police in India are being encouraged to act as facilitators and to offer proactive support to community groups reaching out to people who are at higher risk of HIV and who also may be the most marginalized in society.
- Building on experience to scale up HIV services
- More than 30 representatives from 10 countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), along with UNAIDS representatives, took part in the meeting of the CIS Coordination Council on HIV/AIDS on 30 October in Moscow. The meeting, hosted by the Russian Government, brought together government representatives, country and regional civil society leaders and members of the Eastern European and Central Asian Union of the Organizations of People Living with HIV to build on their experiences to scale up HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.
- Making a difference: UNAIDS in Iran
- Continuing with the web special series “Making a difference”, which focuses on the work of UNAIDS staff at country level, www.unaids.org talks to UNAIDS Country Coordinator in Iran, HamidReza Setayesh, his role, his motivations and how a coordinated UN response is making a difference in the country.
- 51st session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs
- UNAIDS delivered a statement to the 51st session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (Vienna, 10-14 March), calling for increased investment and programmatic action to provide prevention, treatment and support and to protect the human rights of people who use drugs.
- Reducing drug related harm
- After 20 years of harm reduction research and programming, many challenging questions remain.
- Injecting drug use: focused HIV prevention works
- Drug users not only face physical risks of HIV infection, they are also vulnerable to HIV because of their social and legal status. Illegal in many countries, drug use is punishable by incarceration and is highly stigmatized, which further marginalizes people with drug dependence problems. As a consequence, injecting drug users are often not able or willing to access HIV services for fear of recrimination.
- Harm reduction to be scaled up in Ukraine
- Unsafe injecting drug use is the main driver of the AIDS epidemic in Ukraine. As part of efforts to address injecting drug use and its relationship with HIV, Ukraine recently held a national conference on harm reduction which attracted over 400 participants.
- One woman’s fight against AIDS in Ukraine
- As Ministers from across Europe gather in Bremen, Germany for the European AIDS Conference, one woman tells her story about how she is tackling the epidemic in the most affected country in the region, Ukraine.
- Increased HIV services for drug users needed
- Increasing access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services for drug users and their partners is crucial to addressing the issue of growing HIV infections related to injecting drug use in the Middle East and North Africa region.
- Addressing HIV and drug use in the Middle East and North Africa
- Injecting drug use is an increasingly important factor in the HIV epidemics of the Middle East and North Africa. To better address the issue, wide-ranging partnerships are needed to help increase HIV treatment, prevention and care programmes for drug users and their partners.
- China province project reaches out to young people
- A joint HIV prevention and care project in the remote Chinese province of Guizhou is focusing on young people and addressing issues such as the link between injecting drug use and HIV.