HIV

Youth volunteers and counsellors discussing protection against HIV through correct knowledge and skills, with a group of adolescent boys in Zamboanga City, Philippines.
UNICEF/UNI177053/Palasi

Preventing HIV in the Philippines remains a “difficult” task

25 January 2017
General News

HIV prevention in the Philippines is “difficult” and challenging because of church teaching against the use of condoms, the UN’s Children Fund, UNICEF, has said.

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Life-prolonging anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs.
Sean Kimmons/IRIN

“Emergency response” to HIV launched in Libya

4 January 2017
General News

An “emergency response” to a rise in HIV infections in Libya, has been launched by the World Health Organization (WHO).

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Young people play an “HIV knowledge” board game at an event to promote sexual and reproductive health among adolescents supported by the China Center for Health Education and UNICEF China.
UNICEF/Xia Yong

On World AIDS Day, UNICEF warns of sharp rise in new HIV infections among adolescents

1 December 2016
New HIV infections among adolescents are projected to rise from 250,000 in 2015 to nearly 400,000 a year by 2030 if progress stalls in reaching adolescents, warns a report released by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today, which is observed annually as World AIDS Day.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) with Rebecca Awiti, a Kenyan mother living with HIV who has three children – all of them HIV negative, at a UNAIDS special event commemorating World AIDS Day 2016.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

Ahead of World AIDS Day, UN chief honoured for work to end epidemic, fight against stigma

30 November 2016
Speaking at a special event commemorating World AIDS Day, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today underscored the need to stop stigma and abuse against those living with the disease and to ensure that they receive the care, treatment and protection they are entitled to.
HIV testing in Haiti.
UNDP

UN health agency issues new guidelines on HIV self-testing

29 November 2016
Ahead of World AIDS Day, marked annually on 1 December, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has released new guidelines on HIV self-testing, which aim to help millions of people know their HIV status and get treatment.
Longezo, from Malawi, taking his HIV medication.
UNICEF/Schermbrucker

HIV self-test is key to fighting AIDS, says WHO

29 November 2016
General News

Encouraging people to test themselves for HIV could be a game-changer in the fight to rid the world of AIDS, UN health experts have said.

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Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé (left) with President of Namibia, Hage Geingob and his wife Monica, at the launch of Get on the Fast-Track: the life-cycle approach to HIV, in Windhoek, Namibia.
UNAIDS

Even as HIV treatment soars, young women still face high infection risk, UN warns

21 November 2016
The United Nations warned today that while more people than ever are accessing antiretroviral treatment for HIV, girls aged 15 to 24, transitioning to womanhood, face many HIV-related challenges, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, and called for a life-cycle approach to finding solutions for everyone, at all stages of life.
UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé launches the Prevention gap report at a press conference in Geneva.
UNAIDS

Warning of stalled progress against HIV infections, new UN report urges stepped-up prevention efforts

12 July 2016
Globally, new HIV infections among adults and children have been reduced by 40 per cent since the peak in 1997, but the decline among adults has stalled for at least five years, according to a new report from the United Nations agency leading the world’s HIV/AIDS response.
Homage to LGBTI victims of Orlando, Florida attacks, at the US Mission to the United Nations, in New York.
UN Radio/Laura Jarriel

UN Gender Focus: LBTI people and High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS

16 June 2016
UN Gender Focus

“Huge numbers” of LBTI people “killed and injured around the world”

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Loyce Maturu. UN Radio/J. Sambira

Young woman openly living with HIV shares powerful testimony at UN

11 June 2016
General News

A young woman from Zimbabwe openly living with HIV, has been sharing her personal story of survival with the world to give hope to people in her situation.

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