- Quiénes somos
- Liderazgo de ONUSIDA
- Declaraciones y objetivos de las Naciones Unidas
- Estrategia de ONUSIDA para 2011-2015
- El acceso universal a la prevención, el tratamiento, la atención y el apoyo relacionados con el VIH
- Junta Coordinadora del Programa
- Qué hacemos
- Objetivos y compromisos
- Declaración Política 2011: Objetivos y compromisos de erradicación
- Reducción de la transmisión sexual
- Prevención del VIH entre usuarios de drogas
- Eliminación de nuevos casos de infección por VIH en niños
- Acceso al tratamiento para 15 millones de personas
- Erradicación de las muertes por tuberculosis
- Reducción de las diferencias en los recursos
- Eliminación de las desigualdades de género
- Erradicación del estigma y la discriminación
- Eliminación de las restricciones de viaje
- Fortalecimiento de la integración del VIH
- Declaración Política 2011: Objetivos y compromisos de erradicación
Archivo de comunicados de prensa y declaraciones
diciembre
- Pan Caribbean partnership against AIDS selected as international best practice
- The Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) will be officially designated an “international best practice” by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) during a press launch of the joint CARICOM/UNAIDS Secretariats’ publication: Common Goals, Shared Responses: A Case Study on the Pan-Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP).
- Stop violence against women : halt the spread of AIDS
- Today is Human Rights Day, the 56th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the last of this year’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence. It is also a day on which intolerable numbers of women will suffer violent assaults, and on which many will be infected with HIV.
- AIDS philanthropist appointed as Special Envoy of UNAIDS
- UNAIDS is pleased to announce the appointment of Mrs Mero Kececioglu-Kylicas as Special Envoy of UNAIDS.
- World AIDS Day, Geneva, 1 December 2004, op-ed by Graca Machel, President of the Foundation for Community Development, Mozambique, and Kathleen Cravero, Deputy Executive Director of UNAIDS
- Today, women and girls account for nearly half of the 37.2 million adults living with HIV worldwide. Over the past two years, the number of women infected with the virus has increased in every region of the globe, and if current trends continue, women and girls will soon outnumber men and boys infected with HIV.
- Wall Street firms host the first Wall Street World AIDS Day
- Press Release published at the occasion of World AIDS Day 2004 in which former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Speaks on the growing impact of AIDS and calls on the financial sector to respond.
noviembre
- First-ever global HIV/AIDS creative meeting at the United Nations brings together creative experts from 35 media companies
- Today, more than 100 creative and programming directors from 35 media companies, leading media figures and non-government organizations from around the world are meeting at the United Nations Headquarters to exchange ideas on how to incorporate HIV/AIDS messages into short- and long-form programming.
- Number of women living with HIV increases in each region of the world : close to half of 37.2 million adults living with HIV are women, according to new UNAIDS/WHO report
- A new report released today shows that the number of women living with HIV has risen in each region of the world over the past two years, with the steepest increases in East Asia, followed by Eastern Europe and Central Asia. In East Asia, there was a 56% increase over the past two years, followed by Eastern Europe and Central Asia with 48%.
- Youth leaders join forces to fight AIDS in India
- A two-day ‘National Student and Youth Parliament Special Session on HIV/AIDS’ will bring together 3,000 student and youth leaders from 500 districts across the country to deliberate and present to the Government their recommendations on the draft law on HIV/AIDS. Representatives of student unions, universities, bodies such as the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS), National Service Scheme (NSS), and rural youth will participate in the event.
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- Media leaders commit to fight AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- Media executives from Russia, Ukraine, and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have committed to fight HIV/AIDS in their countries, many of which are experiencing some of the fastest-growing epidemics in the world. Meeting today at the first-ever Eurasia Media Leaders Summit on HIV/AIDS in Moscow, media leaders committed to using the power of mass media to help turn the tide of AIDS. Today’s Summit was organized by Transatlantic Partners Against AIDS (TPAA), Gazprom-Media and the Global Media AIDS Initiative – a joint effort of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the United Nations’ Department of Public Information.
- UNAIDS praises Viet Nam for adopting National AIDS Strategy
- Dr Kathleen Cravero, Deputy Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), congratulated the Vietnamese government for adopting an evidence-based and progressive National Strategy on the Prevention of HIV/AIDS. “This is an excellent national strategy and stands as a model for other countries in the region and the world”, she told Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Pham Gia Khiem during their meeting today.
- UNAIDS expresses sadness at death of human rights activist
- UNAIDS acknowledges with tremendous sense of loss the tragic news of the sudden death of Paulo Longo, Coordinator of the Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) in Brazil and human rights activist.
- New analysis calls for increased integration of reproductive health and HIV prevention services
- Providers of reproductive health services are in a strategic position to make significant contributions to closing the global HIV prevention gap, according to a new analysis published jointly by The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) and the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) with the collaboration of UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).
- UNAIDS condemns killing of gay rights activist
- UNAIDS is deeply shocked at the recent killing of FannyAnn Eddy, a leading pan-African gay rights activist and founder of the Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association (SLLAGA).
- Government of India and Clinton Foundation sign agreement to scale up HIV care and treatment
- The Government of India and the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative have agreed to collaborate on the development and implementation of the Government’s plans to scale-up integrated HIV care, treatment, and prevention programmes. Dr S Y Quraishi, Project Director of India’s National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), and Ira C. Magaziner, Chairman of the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative, signed a Memorandum of Understanding today in New Delhi.
septiembre
- Combining TB treatment with HIV testing and treatment could save lives of up to 500 000 HIV-positive Africans every year
- Joint TB and HIV interventions are among the best ways to accelerate access to ARVs and to help reach the
- AIDS epidemic poses serious threat to stability in Europe: : UNAIDS and WHO call on governments to turn policy into action
- With more than 1.8 million people living with HIV in Europe and Central Asia, the epidemic poses a serious threat to the region’s social and economic stability, according to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO). UNAIDS and WHO therefore urge European governments to turn strategy into integrated HIV prevention and treatment programmes to save the lives of thousands of people.
- Brazil and UNAIDS join forces in the global fight against AIDS
- The Government of Brazil and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) announced today a new approach to scale up the response to AIDS in developing countries through multilateral agreements between the Government of Brazil, UNAIDS and other developing countries. As part of this new joint initiative, UNAIDS will establish an International Centre for Technical Cooperation on AIDS, based in Brazil.
agosto
- A globally effective HIV vaccine requires greater participation of women and adolescents in clinical trials
- Greater participation of women and adolescents is needed in HIV vaccine clinical trials, according to a group of international experts, who attended a consultation on HIV vaccine trials in Lausanne, Switzerland, from 26-28 August.
- UNAIDS applauds major new Bollywood film on AIDS
- India's entertainment industry is challenging the AIDS epidemic head-on. For the first time ever, a mainstream Bollywood Hindi film, Phir Milenge (We’ll Meet Again), has placed AIDS at the heart of its story line.
- UNAIDS concerned about detention of AIDS activists in Nepal
- Geneva, 16 August 2004 – UNAIDS is deeply concerned about the recent detention and reported mistreatment of 39 members of the Blue Diamond Society, a Nepalese AIDS NGO working with sexual minorities. The Nepali police arrested these people on 9 August 2004 and they are still being held today.
- UN Secretary General’s report calls for action on women, girls and AIDS
- HIV infections among women and girls in nine countries in southern Africa are increasing at an alarming rate, a new report commissioned by United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, has found, with many young women being infected almost as soon as they start having sex.
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- UNAIDS and German Development Bank sign key agreement to tackle AIDS
- Efforts to combat HIV in Central America and the Caribbean received a major boost today. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the German Development Bank (KfW) signed a cooperation agreement to encourage HIV prevention and reduce infection in these severely affected regions. This signing strengthens the already extensive collaboration between UNAIDS and KfW on AIDS programming.
- UNAIDS welcomes United Kingdom's new £1.5 billion AIDS strategy
- UNAIDS welcomes the new initiative announced by the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, Tony Blair. This commitment, to spending at least £1.5 billion over the next three years on HIV-related programmes, represents a tremendous step forward in the global effort to combat AIDS. UNAIDS also applauds the strategy’s strong focus on women, young people and orphans; often the most vulnerable groups. The UK is once again showing the importance of directed and informed leadership.
- Action against AIDS must address epidemic’s increasing impact on women, says UN report
- Action against HIV/AIDS that does not confront gender inequality is doomed to failure, according to a report released today by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.
- Stronger AIDS response in Asia could avert millions of new HIV infections by 2010, says new report
- Political leaders in Asia and the Pacific have a precious window of opportunity to save millions of people from HIV infection. But to succeed, they will need to drastically increase spending on AIDS and scale up prevention, care and treatment programmes, according to a report by the Asia Pacific Leadership Forum (APLF) on HIV/AIDS and Development.
- Stigma biggest hurdle to AIDS prevention in South Asia
- Stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV and gender inequality remain the two biggest challenges to AIDS prevention in South Asia, according to experts. A satellite session at the XV International AIDS Conference today reviewed the progress made and challenges in mounting an effective AIDS response in South Asia.
- UNAIDS welcomes Australia’s increased funding for AIDS
- UNAIDS welcomes the announcement by the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Alexander Downer, to more than double Australia’s funding for AIDS from AUS$ 250 million (US$ 180 million) to AUS$600 million (US$ 435 million) by 2010. The announcement was made in tandem with the appointment of Australia’s first Special Representative on HIV/AIDS.
- UNAIDS predicts 50% funding shortfall in fighting global AIDS epidemic
- Total global spending on AIDS has increased from US$1.2 billion in 2000 to an estimated US$6 billion this year – a five-fold increase – according to a new UNAIDS report released today. Without dramatic increases, there is still an expected shortfall of US$6 billion in 2005, according to UNAIDS. “Unless more resources are directed toward the global response, the gap between the need and available resources will grow significantly in coming years,” said Dr Paul De Lay, Director of Evaluation of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
- UNAIDS and Thai ministries join forces to combat HIV in uniformed services
- Today the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) signed an agreement to tackle HIV among the uniformed services with Thailand’s Minister of Defence, General Chetta Thanajaro and the Minister of Public Health, Mrs. Sudarat Keyuraphan. Focusing on young men and women, all parties will work together to reduce the impact of HIV and increase prevention efforts.
- HIV/AIDS treatment, microbicide and vaccine advocates release plan of action and joint statement of commitment
- AIDS activists from around the world, representing different movements, today called for concerted action aimed at ramping up HIV/AIDS health care services in low and middle-income countries.
- Asian countries can choose the future of their HIV epidemics, scientists say
- Nationwide programmes to increase condom use in commercial sex, help drug injectors to use clean needles and cut risky sex between men are needed to reverse a growing HIV epidemic in Asia, according to leading scientists. In a report released ahead of the 15th International AIDS Conference on Sunday, the Monitoring the AIDS Pandemic (MAP) Network said that HIV was spreading rapidly in several Asian countries.
- 10 million more Asians HIV-infected by 2010 unless urgent action taken, warns new report
- Countries in Asia and the Pacific region must urgently adopt comprehensive responses to HIV in order to avert a catastrophic increase in infections and drastic economic consequences, according to a new report released today by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
- Aid to combat HIV/AIDS increases
- A new study by the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), ‘Analysis of aid in support of HIV/AIDS control, 2000-2002’, presents the first comprehensive overview of aid allocations to AIDS activities by donor and recipient countries. It is being released in advance of the XV International AIDS conference, to be held in Bangkok 11-16 July 2004.
- UNAIDS welcomes UK £116 million to fight AIDS and promote sexual and reproductive health
- UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS, today welcomes the announcement made by Hilary Benn, UK International Development Secretary, of increased funding to UNAIDS and to UNFPA to help tackle the global AIDS epidemic and improve sexual and reproductive health for women and young people in developing countries.
- New UNAIDS report unveils latest global epidemic trends
- UNAIDS warned that the number of people living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has risen in every region of the world and last year five million people became newly infected with HIV -- more people than any previous year. These findings are contained in the 2004 UNAIDS Report of the global AIDS epidemic, released today in advance of the XV International AIDS Conference, to be held in Bangkok from 11-16 July 2004. The new report represents the most accurate picture of AIDS to date due to the more comprehensive country surveillance data and improved methods for estimating HIV rates.
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- UNHCR becomes tenth Cosponsor of UNAIDS : HIV prevention central to protecting refugees
- Geneva, 25 June 2004 – Today the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is pleased to announce that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has joined UNAIDS as the tenth Cosponsor. Together with the nine existing Cosponsors, UNHCR will help broaden and strengthen the UN’s response to the global AIDS epidemic.
- UNAIDS welcomes the EU-US summit statement on HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB
- UNAIDS particularly commends the agreement on supporting the United Nations General Assembly Special Session Declaration on HIV/AIDS and the summit’s statement on paragraph 6 of the Doha Ministerial Declaration on TRIPS, dealing with ensuring availability of medicines for those most in need.
- UNAIDS calls on the International Monetary Fund to prioritise AIDS epidemic in Zambia
- UNAIDS today calls on the International Monetary Fund to prioritise the impact of the AIDS epidemic and the need of the government of Zambia to invest in a sustained and urgent response, when reviewing the country's progress in meeting the conditions of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility agreed in April this year.
- AIDS placed high on agenda of Haitian peacekeeping mission
- Today efforts to combat HIV among peacekeeping troops bound for Haiti have received a significant boost. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and representatives from the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) have arrived in the country to develop an HIV/AIDS programme for the newly established peacekeeping mission before the arrival of the main contingent of troops.
- WHO/UNAIDS welcomes G-8 endorsement of the global HIV vaccine enterprise
- The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) today welcomed the G-8's endorsement of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, a virtual consortium proposed by an international group of scientists that is being established to accelerate HIV vaccine development.
- 'Positive' role model Musa Mjoko to carry Olympic Torch
- HIV-positive 31 year-old South African Musa Njoko has been nominated by UNAIDS to participate in this year’s Olympic Torch Relay, to be held in Cape Town on Saturday 12 June 2004.
- World AIDS Campaign issues 'call for action' challenging G8 governments to keep promises on HIV/AIDS
- The World AIDS Campaign (WAC) has challenged governments of the G8 countries to help save millions of lives by honouring the commitment they made when they signed the global AIDS compact at the United Nations three years ago.
- IOC and UNAIDS join forces to engage sport community in fight against AIDS
- The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in which both organisations agreed to combine their efforts to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS, particularly among the sport community. The signing ceremony took place at the IOC Headquarters in Lausanne in the presence of IOC President Jacques Rogge and UNAIDS Executive Director Dr Peter Piot.
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- UNAIDS welcomes women health ministers' initiative to address gender inequality
- The Joint United Nations Programme (UNAIDS) welcomes the decision taken by women health ministers today to form an international network to address the growing inequalities women face in accessing basic health services, including HIV care and prevention services.
- Statement from UNAIDS on Team Joachim Franz initiative
- The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) sees the Team Joachim Franz initiative as an innovative project which combines the use of sport with AIDS education.
- Women health ministers join forces
- Concerned by the growing AIDS burden faced by women in developing countries, women health ministers from around the world agreed to form an international network to address the persistent inequalities women experience in accessing basic health services, particularly HIV prevention and care services. The ministers were gathered at an unprecedented meeting organized by the Council of Women World Leaders (CWWL) on the occasion of the 57th World Health Assembly.
- Mongolian Ministry of Defense and UNAIDS join forces to tackle HIV in uniformed forces
- The Mongolian Minister of Defence, H.E. Mr. J. Gurragchaa, and the Minister of Justice and Home Affairs, H.E. Mr. Ts. Nyamdorj signed a partnership agreement today with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to tackle HIV in uniformed services.
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- Kenyan business leader named UNAIDS special advisor to strengthen business response to AIDS
- Chris Kirubi, leading African businessman and Chairman of Kenya’s HIV/AIDS Business Council, has been named Special Advisor to the UNAIDS Executive Director in an effort to strengthen the business response to AIDS in East Africa. Mr Kirubi has agreed to accept this honorary position on a voluntary basis for one year. He is also the corporate advisory board member of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS.
- Landmark agreement reached in fight against AIDS
- A major step was taken at a meeting today in Washington D.C., co-chaired by UNAIDS, the UK and the US, where donors and developing countries agreed to three core principles to better coordinate the scale-up of national AIDS responses. Known as the “Three Ones”, the principles are: one agreed HIV/AIDS action framework that provides the basis for coordinating the work of all partners; one national AIDS coordinating authority, with a broad based multi-sector mandate; and one agreed country-level monitoring and evaluation system.
- Jackie Chan signs on for UNICEF and UNAIDS
- The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the UN agency charged with coordinating United Nations efforts to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic, jointly appointed today action star Jackie Chan as one of its Goodwill Ambassadors.
- South Asia's new commitment to fight AIDS marks turning point, says UNAIDS Executive Director
- Despite the low HIV prevalence in South Asia, the epidemic continues to spread unabated, particularly among high-risk groups. In an effort to accelerate and strengthen the response to AIDS in the region, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has taken a significant step forward by signing a memorandum of understanding with UNAIDS today.
- Nordic countries' commitment to AIDS unrelenting, says UNAIDS Executive Director
- Nordic funding to fight AIDS globally ranks among top 5 in donor spending
- India and Pakistan fight AIDS through cricket
- London/Geneva, 13 April 2004 – Players from the India and Pakistan cricket teams will wear the symbolic red ribbon as part of international cricket’s commitment to raise awareness about HIV in today’s third Test match, being held in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. As part of this ground-breaking initiative, the team captains will also be accompanied by an HIV-positive person for the coin toss before the match.
- UNAIDS statement to the 60th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Agenda Item 12: Integration of the human rights of women and the gender perspective
- Discrimination against women, both legal and de facto, renders them disproportionately vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. Women's subordination in the family and in public life is one of the root causes of the rapidly increasing rate of infection among women. Systematic discrimination based on gender also impairs women's ability to deal with the consequences of their own infection and/or infection in the family, in social, economic and personal terms.
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- UNAIDS statement to the 60th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Agenda item 10: Economic, social and cultural rights
- The HIV/AIDS epidemic poses serious human rights challenges - for example, unequal access to HIV/AIDS-related treatments remains a global reality. If countries are seriously committed to protecting the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, then this inequality must be addressed. The problem is urgent. In poor countries, millions of people with HIV/AIDS need antiretroviral treatment immediately and very few of these are on antiretroviral treatment. Without accelerated prevention and treatment the AIDS epidemic will continue destroying communities, health care systems and economies, placing a shadow upon the future of entire countries.
- Pacific Islands face rapidly expanding HIV epidemic, says UNAIDS Executive Director
- The Pacific Island countries have a unique opportunity to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS before it is too late. “Although HIV prevalence levels remain low, we must not underestimate the size of the challenges confronting the Pacific Islands region,” said Dr Peter Piot, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, in a video statement for the opening of the UNAIDS workshop, “Accelerating Action Against HIV/AIDS in the Pacific”, being held in Fiji from 22-26 March 2004.
- Women in Mekong region faced with higher rates of HIV infection than men : China, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam showing similar trends
- The rate of HIV infection in the Mekong Region is rising faster among women than men. “Lack of attention to women’s rights is fuelling the HIV epidemic,” said Dr Kathleen Cravero, Deputy Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), speaking at the Mekong Leaders’ Consultative Meeting on Women and AIDS on the occasion of International Women’s Day.
- Lao women at greater AIDS risk: UN
- Women in Lao PDR are at an unacceptably high risk of contracting HIV and AIDS, according to a UN expert.
- Women on the frontlines of the AIDS response : between one fifth and half of girls worldwide experience sexual violence, premiere of Women and AIDS film on International Women’s Day
- Across the world, between one-fifth and half of all girls and young women report that their first sexual encounter was forced. Too many women are unable to refuse sex or insist on a condom because they lack social and economic power, according to the film “Women Are”, being premiered in Geneva today to mark International Women’s Day.
- HIV prevention and protection efforts are failing women and girls : more young women are becoming infected by husbands and long-term partners – female-controlled HIV prevention methods urgently needed
- Existing HIV prevention and protection efforts are failing to stem infections among women and girls because they do not take into account such issues as gender relations and sexual behaviour, according to the United Nations AIDS programme.
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- UNAIDS welcomes US president’s emergency plan for AIDS relief five-year strategy
- The U.S. government is to be commended for both seeking to enhance and coordinate its own AIDS efforts, and affirming that the AIDS fight can only be won through a concrete partnership between the international community, national governments, the private sector and people living with HIV/AIDS. UNAIDS stands ready to work with Randall L. Tobias, the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, and U.S. country teams to scale up the AIDS response on the ground in the 15 target countries worldwide.
- Europe's economic growth threatened by AIDS
- “HIV/AIDS is a growing challenge for the entire continent of Europe, from Dublin to Moscow,” Kalman Mizsei, Regional Director for Europe and the CIS of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), warned European leaders gathered here to discuss a regional response to the epidemic.
- AIDS threat growing throughout Europe: UN, World Bank and Global Fund call on European Ministers to scale up HIV prevention and treatment programmes
- AIDS is rapidly spreading in Eastern Europe and is on the rise again in Western Europe because integrated prevention and treatment programmes have not been sustained or do not exist. Countries in Eastern Europe, home to the fastest growing epidemic in the world, will soon be on Europe’s borders following the European Union’s enlargement on 1 May 2004. The Baltic States, which will soon be part of the EU, are also experiencing a rapid rise in HIV infections.
- UNAIDS applauds Brazilian samba school’s first HIV prevention campaign during Rio carnival
- Grande Rio, a samba school in Rio de Janeiro, has composed a song entitled,
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- HIV efforts are failing women and girls by Dr Peter Piot and Emma Thompson
- The escalating global struggle against AIDS cannot afford to neglect women, and special efforts will be needed to ensure it is not allowed to. To that end, UNAIDS has pulled together a high profile group of men and women -- the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS -- which gathers activists, government representatives, celebrities, and community workers who are committed to improving the lives of women and girls.
- African Cup of Nations soccer matches to rally fans against poverty, AIDS
- In a partnership among soccer stars, soccer officials and a UN agency, organizers of the African Cup of Nations tournament plan to use the high-profile games in Tunisia from 24 January to 14 February to promote a growing “Africa 2015” campaign against poverty and the spread of HIV/AIDS.
- UNAIDS welcomes Clinton foundation's move to cut prices of AIDS tests
- The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) welcomes the agreement struck by the Clinton Foundation to significantly reduce the price of HIV/AIDS laboratory tests in Africa and the Caribbean, the regions worst-hit by the epidemic. A number of diagnostic companies, including, Bayer, Beckman Coulter, Inc., BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), bioMérieux and Roche Diagnostics, have cut the costs of their tests by up to 80%, enabling more HIV- positive people to access life-prolonging treatment and care.
- UNAIDS response to Kenyan HIV prevalence survey
- The Kenyan survey found a lower HIV prevalence among Kenyans – 6.7% compared to 9.4% estimated by UNAIDS and WHO for 2003. However, when broken down by gender, the survey found an HIV prevalence of 8.7% among women, which is in the same range as the 9.4% prevalence estimated by UNAIDS and WHO. However, it also found an HIV prevalence of 4.5% among men, significantly lower than expected.
- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan launches global media AIDS initiative
- As part of the ongoing mobilisation of civil society in the fight against HIV/AIDS, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today met with leaders of some of the world’s leading media organizations to launch a Global Media AIDS Initiative. The Initiative aims to activate media organizations to reach the world’s people – especially youth - with information about how to prevent and treat HIV and to help combat AIDS-related stigma and discrimination.
