HIV

Charles Radcliffe. UN File Photo/Cia Pak

LGBTI community faces systematic attempt to stifle its voice

19 May 2016
General News

The international community of lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender and intersex people faces a systematic attempt to stifle their right to voice an opinion; that’s according to Charles Radcliffe from the UN human rights office (OH

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SDGs is projected onto the UN Headquarters.
UN Photo/Cia Pak.

UN Gender Focus: global goals, HIV and Roma women

14 April 2016
UN Gender Focus

Global goals and gender equality: squaring the circle

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Photo: FAO
FAO

HIV resurfaces in gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men

12 April 2016
General News

The annual number of people newly infected by HIV around the world has dropped in the past 15 years, but the virus has resurfaced in the gay community.

That’s according to experts, researchers and human rights defenders belonging to an advocacy platform backed by the UN.

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Fishing community in northern Mozambique. IFAD TV (video capture)

Mozambicans learning to cook healthily to fight off AIDS

6 December 2015
General News

Fishing communities in northern Mozambique are learning how to cook and eat more healthily in order to fight off disease, especially HIV.

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Two HIV-positive women in Uganda sit on the floor while a Registered Nurse (RN) gives them anti retroviral drugs (ARVs).
UNICEF/Shehzad Noorani

UN marks World AIDS Day with ‘new hope’ as momentum builds to break epidemic by 2030

1 December 2015
The first World AIDS Day since political leaders The first World AIDS Day since political leaders committed to ending the epidemic by 2030 as part of the United Nations-led Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has generated “new hope” to break the epidemic and keep it from rebounding in “an unparalleled opportunity to change the course of history for ever.”
In Uganda, 29 year old Christine Adokorach holds a tablet of Niverapine, an antiretroviral drug, wrapped in a sealed plastic bag.
UNICEF/Shehzad Noorani

UN health agency urges expanding antiretroviral therapy to all people living with HIV

30 November 2015
Expanding antiretroviral therapy to all people living with HIV is the key to ending the AIDS epidemic within a generation, the World Health Organization announced on the eve of World AIDS Day, presenting new “treat all” recommendations to enable countries to expand treatment rapidly and efficiently.
Adolescents in Chiang-Mai, Thailand, learning about HIV/AIDS.
UNICEF/Thailand/2015/HIV

‘Hidden epidemic’ of HIV hitting adolescents in Asia-Pacific region, UN agencies warn

30 November 2015
The Asia-Pacific region is facing a ‘hidden epidemic’ of HIV among adolescents, with anestimated 50,000 new infections in 2014 among those aged 15 to 19, United Nations agencies reported today, calling on Governments to develop specifically targeted prevention strategies.
Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé, displays a copy of a new UN report, <em>‘Focus on location and population: on the Fast-Track to end AIDS by 2030,’</em> launched ahead of World AIDS Day.
UNAIDS/Pierre Albouy

UNAIDS: millions receiving HIV treatment globally through accelerated and focused response

24 November 2015
Citing “extraordinary” progress in HIV prevention and response in the last 15 years, a new United Nations report found that many countries are adopting the Fast-Track Strategy developed by the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), which allows more people to receive timely treatment for HIV, in an effort to end AIDS by 2030, as part of the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals.
Stella S. Dongo.
Rotary International/Monika Lozinska

Business skills training empowers women in Zimbabwe

10 November 2015
General News

Programmes that promote women’s entrepreneurship and educate adolescents about HIV and AIDS have changed the lives of more than 6,000 people in Zimbabwe.

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Photo: UNAIDS
UNAIDS

New UN treatment guidelines say all people with HIV should get antiretrovirals

30 September 2015
Anyone infected with HIV should begin antiretroviral treatment as soon after diagnosis as possible, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) announced today, as it issued new guidelines that could help avert more than 21 million deaths and 28 million new infections by 2030.