Violence against women is cause and consequence of HIV spread, UN expert says

7 April 2005

Presenting a report indicating how violence against women increases their risk of contracting HIV/AIDS, a United Nations expert told the UN Commission on Human Rights that the number of women living with the disease had increased in every region.

Treatment along with prevention crucial to stopping spread of HIV/AIDS, speaker to UN panel says

7 April 2005

The false dilemma between prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS had caused unnecessary losses, wasted precious time and should be avoided in the future, according to a keynote speaker at this week's annual session of the UN Commission on Population and Development.

Effect of HIV/AIDS on population and development focus of UN commission's annual session

4 April 2005

The United Nations Commission on Population and Development kicked off its weeklong annual session today with top UN officials stressing the effects of HIV/AIDS on population dynamics, including population losses and decreased life expectancy, as well as the pandemic's links to increased extreme poverty, stalled economic growth and poor reproductive health in many parts of the world.

UN urges states of former Soviet Union to respond at once to HIV/AIDS crisis

1 April 2005

With Eastern Europe and Central Asia experiencing one of the world's fastest growing HIV/AIDS epidemics, United Nations bodies leading the fight against the scourge today called on the former Soviet countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) to forge an immediate broad-based response to the crisis.

Attack on AIDS antiretroviral therapy wrong, misleading and dangerous – UN

31 March 2005

United Nations agencies have condemned as wrong, misleading, irresponsible and dangerous a recent advertising campaign that both touts the benefits of vitamin therapy over antiretroviral therapy in treating HIV/AIDS and claims that antiretroviral therapy is toxic.

Former Soviet states must move speedily to confront HIV/AIDS – Annan

31 March 2005

With 1.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) of former Soviet nations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, a coordinated response from all sectors of society and leadership at every level are vital to combat the scourge, United Nations Secretary-General told a regional meeting today.

Fréchette says scaling up AIDS treatments runs into developing country roadblocks

15 March 2005

More assistance is needed in the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic and new ways must be found to compensate for the lack of trained people and the inadequate health infrastructure in many countries, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette said today.

UN agency and donor countries call for coordinated action to eliminate AIDS

9 March 2005

In the wake of its report saying the world will need some $200 billion over the next 20 years to reverse the AIDS pandemic, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) joined three donor countries today in calling for coordinated global action to create effective treatment programmes in developing countries.

With help and effort, up to 43 million Africans can avoid HIV over next 20 years – UN

4 March 2005

Using story-telling methods, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has devised three scenarios to estimate how decisions made today may alter the pandemic's course in Africa, with the best offering hope to save 43 million people on the continent.

Debt repayments are crippling poor countries' efforts to fight HIV/AIDS – UN envoy

24 February 2005

The world's poorest countries spend so much of their income paying off their foreign debts that they have to cut back on funding essential health and education programmes, the United Nations envoy for those nations said today as he called for greater action worldwide to combat the crippling effect of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on the developing world.

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