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- ‘Young People We Care' volunteers assist vulnerable households in Zimbabwe
- Across Zimbabwe thousands of young people are offering help, support and company to many elderly people who have lost sons and daughters to AIDS-related illnesses. The UNICEF initiative, ‘Young People We Care,’ is seen as a successful way of bringing together the young and old in the AIDS response.
- International Youth Day: Young people are the catalysts of development
- August 2010 to 2011 is designated as International Year of Youth and as the world celebrates International Youth Day on August 12, young people are leading the world in bringing about an HIV prevention revolution.
- Empowering women to protect themselves: Successes in female condom programming
- Ensuring that high quality condoms are widely available, either free or at an affordable price, is fundamental to a pragmatic and effective AIDS response. In a recently published report, UNFPA focuses on the increasing use of female condoms and highlights how millions of women around the world are now using this method to protect themselves against HIV.
- Young people key to reversing the global AIDS epidemic and leading the response
- A new report highlights that global commitments will be achieved only if the unique needs of young women and men are acknowledged and their human rights fulfilled, respected, and protected.
- New data from study roll-out provides further evidence that male circumcision is effective in preventing HIV in men
- The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) strongly welcomes new results confirming that scaling-up adult male circumcision works to prevent HIV in men. The study, which was carried out in the township of Orange Farm in South Africa, resulted in a 55% reduction in HIV prevalence and a 76% reduction in HIV incidence in circumcised men.
- UNAIDS and WHO hail new results showing that a once-daily pill for HIV-negative people can prevent them from acquiring HIV
- New data from studies in Kenya, Uganda and Botswana confirm major role of antiretroviral medicine in preventing heterosexual HIV transmission
- Highly vulnerable transport sector needs effective HIV programmes
- Mobile populations, especially transport workers, are highly vulnerable to HIV. Many truck drivers and other mobile workers spend large amounts of time away from their families and can engage in multiple concurrent partnerships.
- New city-based HIV strategy in China to address HIV infection among men who have sex with men
- Government officials in Chengdu, China, hosted a workshop today to address the city’s rapidly-growing HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men.
- UNAIDS Executive Director commends the Government of China for its leadership in the HIV response
- In an official meeting today in Beijing with Dr Chen Zhu, China’s Minister of Health, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé praised China’s commitment and leadership in the national response to HIV.
- Sex workers on the frontline of the AIDS response in India
- In a densely packed sub-urban township far away from Lutyen’s Delhi, at a small house encased in a cacophony of concrete flats, about 20 women engaged in sex work got together to share their experiences with UNAIDS Executive Director.
- UNAIDS rejects prejudice and misconceptions about men who have sex with men and transgender people
- UNAIDS lauds efforts by India’s National AIDS programme to provide HIV services for men who have sex with men and transgender people. Currently around 67% of men who have sex with men in India are accessing prevention services. According to estimates of the National AIDS Control Organization, there are more than 400 000 men who have sex with men in India; HIV prevalence in this population is about 7.3% compared to a national adult HIV prevalence of 0.31%.
- Competition launched to find top social media and mobile phone projects for HIV prevention
- The Elena Pinchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation has launched a competition to find social media and mobile phone projects for HIV prevention. The competition will award up to 10,000 USD to innovative, start-up projects that show proof of concept.
- The Organization of American States adopts resolution that condemns discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
- A new resolution adopted by the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS), condemns discrimination against persons based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
- Historic resolution on human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity adopted at the Human Rights Council
- The United Nations Human Rights Council passed a historic resolution entitled Human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity on 14 June.
- New public health approaches aim to reduce the spread of HIV and save lives of men who have sex with men and transgender people
- New public health recommendations from the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners aim to help policymakers and doctors scale up access to treatment and prevention services for HIV and sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men and transgender people. These are the first global public health guidelines to focus on these specific population groups.
- Partners come together to lessen HIV-risk for migrants and mobile populations
- For the world’s 214 million international migrants and 740 million internal migrants the sometimes challenging conditions of the migration process can leave them vulnerable to HIV infection. During the General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS in New York, governments, civil society partners and intergovernmental agencies came together to examine ways of increasing access to HIV services for people on the move.
- Young people in the AIDS response: Taking the lead
- Young people are at the heart of the AIDS epidemic and should be at the heart of the AIDS response. How to ensure the global challenge to HIV better serves the needs of young people was explored during a key event at the High Level Meeting on AIDS this week.
- It’s possible: Making the most of linking sexual and reproductive health and HIV responses
- Linking sexual and reproductive health and HIV is of critical importance. On 8 June, during a side event at this week’s High Level Meeting on AIDS in New York, the question of how exactly such linkages can be strengthened was explored in depth.
- World leaders launch plan to eliminate new HIV infections among children by 2015
- World leaders gathered in New York for the 2011 United Nations High Level Meeting on AIDS have today launched a Global Plan that will make significant strides towards eliminating new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive.
- Getting to Zero new HIV infections: High Level Meeting panel outlines way forward
- To build on recent successes in HIV prevention, the United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS brought together a panel for an inspired session to outline the way ahead to sustain the momentum of the HIV prevention revolution.