UNAIDS The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

Caribbean regional launch of UNAIDS global report 2008

29 July 2008

According to latest data released by UNAIDS in its 2008 Report on the global AIDS epidemic, the situation in the Caribbean regarding HIV remains precarious, despite a range of successes and gains. (Port of Spain, 29 July 2008).

UNAIDS welcomes United States Senate action to renew its global AIDS programme

16 July 2008

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS welcomes U.S. Senate approval of the “Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde Global Leadership on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008.” With this key vote, the U.S. government has taken another major step in keeping its commitment to the global AIDS response.

Universal access 2010 remains priority for G8 leaders

09 July 2008

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) welcomes the decision reached by the Group of Eight (G8) leaders at the Summit in Hokkaido, Japan to honour in full their commitments to continue working towards the goal of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010.

UN trains Olympic volunteers on AIDS awareness

16 June 2008

The UN, Beijing Youth League, China Red Cross and MSI join forces with people living with HIV to train Olympic volunteers on HIV prevention and anti-discrimination

Correction to AIDS story in Independent article 8 June 2008

11 June 2008

Joint Note for the Media WHO/UNAIDS

Progress in AIDS response but still a long way from meeting global targets

09 June 2008

Governments review international response to AIDS at United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting 10-11 June 2008

NEARLY THREE MILLION HIV-POSITIVE PEOPLE NOW RECEIVING LIFE-SAVING DRUGS

02 June 2008

The close of 2007 marks an important step in the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Nearly 3 million people are now receiving anti-retroviral therapy (ART) in low- and middle-income countries, according to a new report launched today by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

UN General Assembly Convenes High-Level Meeting on AIDS

28 May 2008

UN General Assembly Convenes High-Level Meeting on AIDS - Governments to review progress on access to HIV treatment and prevention

UNAIDS mourns the death of prominent AIDS activist Wellington Solomon Adderly

28 May 2008

It is with profound sadness that UNAIDS mourns the death of AIDS activist Wellington Solomon Adderly who was killed at his home in Nassau, Bahamas earlier this week. Mr Adderly was one of the leading figures in the response to HIV in the Bahamas having served for many years as President of the Bahamas National Network of Positive Living. He was also a prominent member of the Bahamas Resource Committee and Administrator of the Bahamas AIDS Foundation.

Statement of the UNAIDS Secretariat to the Sixty-First World Health Assembly - Health of Migrants

22 May 2008

Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, governments have prevented people living with HIV from entering or residing in their countries based solely on their HIV status. Such restrictions have stopped HIV positive people from travelling for business, family visits, or tourism; and from entering a country for study, labour migration, and political asylum.

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