HIV and AIDS

A neighbhourhood of Port-au-Prince in Haiti is being digitally mapped for higher rates of HIV infection.
© UNICEF/Marco Dormino

Revealed: Inequalities persist in HIV prevention, child treatment services

22 July 2021
Health

Nearly half of the 1.7 million children worldwide living with HIV were not on treatment last year, the UN programme leading the global fight against HIV and AIDS, UNAIDS, said in a report released together with partners. 

A midwife prepares medicine for a two-week-old HIV-positive baby in Uganda.
© UNICEF/Jimmy Adriko

Step up HIV fight, to end AIDS ‘epidemic of inequalities’ by 2030 

8 June 2021
Health

Although the world has made “great strides” since the first case of AIDS was reported, four decades ago, the UN General Assembly President said on Tuesday that the “tragic reality” is that the most vulnerable remain in jeopardy. 

A man is tested for HIV at a health centre in Odienné, Côte d’Ivoire.
© UNICEF/Frank Dejongh

Address inequalities to end AIDS by 2030, UN chief says in new report

30 April 2021
Health

Inequalities in addressing AIDS threaten global efforts to stamp out the disease as a public health threat by 2030, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned in a report published on Friday, which provides 10 key recommendations to get the world back on track.

Babies at a neonatal intensive unit at a hospital in Kampala, Uganda, which was refurbished with support from UNFPA.
UNICEF/Catherine Ntabadde

UK’s 85% family planning aid cut will be devastating for women and girls says UNFPA, while UNAIDS also 'deeply regrets' cuts

29 April 2021
Women

The United Kingdom’s intention to cut 85 per cent of its contribution to a flagship UN family planning programme this year, will have devastating consequences for women and girls and their families across the world, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency (UNFPA) said on Thursday.

Anísio, who was born with HIV, has problems with the treatments because he is malnourished
UN News

$29 billion a year by 2025 needed to get back on track to tackle AIDS, say UNAIDS

29 March 2021
Health

A new report from the UN agency dedicated to ending HIV and AIDS ( UNAIDS) has shown that investing $29 billion a year to HIV response in low and middle income countries by 2025, will put the world back on track to eradicate the virus as a public health threat by 2030.

Teachers at the Al-Fateh girls’ high school in Kabul Afghanistan receives the shot of COVAX facilitated COVID-19 vaccine that were enrolled in Afghanistan..
© UNICEF

First Person: Prepare for the next pandemic, says WHO scientist

20 March 2021
Health

New technologies have given us new ways to control diseases - crucial to fighting the COVID pandemic, and future global outbreaks, says the World Health Organization’s Chief Scientist.

Everyone deserves love
UN Women/Nguyen Minh Duc

Living and loving with HIV: a UN Resident Coordinator blog

14 February 2021
Human Rights

To mark Valentine’s Day, the annual 14 February celebration of love and affection, Gita Sabharwal, UN Resident Coordinator in Thailand, and Patchara Benjarattanaporn, Thailand Country Director for UNAIDS, call for an end to discrimination against people living with HIV, and recognition of the contribution they make to Thai society.

A HIV-positive woman and her baby take their medication on a daily basis at their home in Mbarara, western Uganda.
UNICEF/Karin Schermbrucker

UN urges ‘global solidarity, shared responsibility’ against pandemics, marking World AIDS Day

1 December 2020
Health

The United Nations is commemorating World AIDS Day, on Tuesday, with a call for “global solidarity and shared responsibility” to overcome not only COVID-19, but also AIDS – another global pandemic that is still with us nearly 40 years after it emerged. 

A mother in Mbarara, Western Uganda, ensures that both her children receive their pediatric HIV medicine at the same time every day.
© UNICEF/Karin Schermbrucke

Global HIV toll likely to be far higher owing to COVID-19, warns UNAIDS

26 November 2020
Health

Countries should adopt ambitious new targets to tackle HIV / AIDS to avoid hundreds of thousands of additional infections and deaths linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN said on Thursday.

An HIV-positive woman receives medication for her three-day-old baby at a hospital in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Critical HIV services in many countries have been disrupted due to the coronavirus pandemic.
UNICEF/Frank Dejongh

A child infected with HIV every 100 seconds, new UN report reveals

25 November 2020
Health

Approximately once every minute and 40 seconds, a child or young person under the age of 20 was infected with HIV last year, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reported, calling on governments to “protect, sustain and accelerate” efforts to combat childhood HIV.