Mensaje del director ejecutivo del ONUSIDA, Michel Sidibé

Ginebra, 24 de marzo 2011—Me satisface ver cómo la ampliación de la colaboración entre los programas para el VIH y la tuberculosis está dando sus frutos. Desde 2002, el número de pacientes de tuberculosis que se han realizado las pruebas del VIH se ha multiplicado por 80.

Para los pacientes de tuberculosis que descubren que son seropositivos, conocer su estado les permitirá  buscar acceso al tratamiento y a los medicamentos para el VIH que salvarán sus vidas.

Sin embargo, en este Día Mundial de la Tuberculosis, estoy preocupado. Estamos siendo testigos de una epidemia emergente de tuberculosis resistente a los fármacos. Debemos reflexionar sobre el hecho de que, si no se toman medidas urgentes, unos dos millones de personas que viven con el VIH podrían fallecer desde ahora hasta 2015 como consecuencia de la tuberculosis.

Actualmente disponemos de las herramientas necesarias para prevenir muchas de estas muertes: se ha desarrollado una prueba de detección de tuberculosis más rápida y precisa y el acceso a la terapia antirretrovírica ha mejorado significativamente. Las comunidades de la tuberculosis y del VIH deben seguir ampliando sus esfuerzos conjuntos para extender rápidamente estos servicios y salvar así muchas vidas.

No olvidemos que el VIH y la tuberculosis son dos enfermedades, pero estamos hablando de una vida.

El ONUSIDA se ha comprometido a reducir a la mitad las muertes por tuberculosis en personas que viven con el VIH para 2015. Creo que no solo podemos conseguir este objetivo, sino superarlo.

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It is with profound sadness that UNAIDS mourns the death of staff member Mr Sam Were who recently passed away in Kampala, Uganda. Sam lived openly with HIV and served as a role model by declaring his HIV-positive status at a time when few people living with HIV were willing to disclose.

UNAIDS today acknowledges the life and legacy of Dr Jonathan Mann, a formative force in the fields of HIV, health and human rights. Dr Mann and his wife, AIDS researcher Mary-Lou Clements-Mann were on their way to Geneva when their plane crashed off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada on 2 September 1998.

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) expresses deep concern over the safety of three individuals who were arrested at the HIV/AIDS Implementers Meeting held in Kampala, Uganda, 3-8 June 2008, and who are currently involved in ongoing court proceedings on charges of trespass.

Washington DC, 30 July 2008: This signing is a historic event. The world is beginning to

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.

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.

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

Joint Note for the Media WHO/UNAIDS

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.