HIV

UN offers tips for community groups to increase awareness of HIV/AIDS

27 December 2001
Seeking to prevent the further spread of HIV/AIDS, two United Nations agencies have joined forces to produce a new brochure highlighting the linkage between the virus and issues related to human rights.

Group laying foundation for global anti-AIDS fund completes preparatory work

18 December 2001
The panel laying the groundwork for the new anti-AIDS fund that has been championed by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has concluded its activities, paving the way for the first meeting of the fund's newly formed Board early next year.

New UN-backed initiative aims to expand HIV programmes for mothers, children

7 December 2001
A new $100 million initiative by major foundations will expand the scope of mother and child HIV programmes, the head of the United Nations AIDS agency said today.

Three UN agencies join efforts in fight against HIV/AIDS

4 December 2001
Three United Nations agencies have teamed with the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in an effort to examine ways to mitigate the disease's affect on food security, rural livelihoods and rural poverty.

Marking World AIDS Day, UN urges refocused attention to fight epidemic

30 November 2001
Using the occasion of World AIDS Day, United Nations officials today stressed the need to refocus attention on the global fight against the epidemic and to sustain the momentum that has been achieved in that effort so far.

AIDS spreading faster in Eastern Europe than in rest of world: new UN figures

28 November 2001
A new United Nations report released today says the number of HIV infections in Eastern Europe is rising faster than anywhere else in the world.

China must prevent HIV's spread, top UN anti-AIDS official tells Beijing forum

13 November 2001
Addressing a national conference in China on sexually transmitted diseases (STD), the Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) today said the country must act to avert a widespread epidemic before the end of the decade.

UN agency starts HIV prevention training for Ethiopian truck drivers

29 May 2001
In a bid to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS among a high-risk group in Ethiopia, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today began a series of innovative awareness building sessions for truck drivers employed by the agency.

Children in East Asia and Pacific unaware of dangers of HIV, UNICEF warns

14 May 2001
Children and adolescents in East Asia and the Pacific are generally optimistic about the future, but many appear woefully unprepared to deal with the rapidly growing threat of HIV/AIDS in the region, according to the results of a United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) survey released today in New York.

UN agencies warn that Africa's TB cases will grow as HIV spreads

23 April 2001
The number of cases of tuberculosis (TB) in Africa -- already in the millions -- will double over the next decade as HIV continues to spread across the continent, the United Nations warned today, calling for a concurrent effort to fight both infectious diseases.