HIV

To mark World AIDS Day 2009, UNAIDS chief Michel Sidibé (2nd right) joined President Zuma of South Africa (left)

UNICEF hails South Africa’s new strategy for tackling HIV/AIDS

4 December 2009
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has applauded the big leap taken by the South African Government towards achieving universal access to treatment for HIV for the country’s women and children living with the virus.
Geneva celebrates positive living on World AIDS Day 2009

Discrimination only fuels HIV/AIDS epidemic, UN officials say

1 December 2009
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today led senior United Nations officials in marking World AIDS Day by calling for an urgent end to discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS to help combat the spread of the disease.
A health worker counselling women about HIV/AIDS treatment

UN issues new guidelines for earlier start to treatment of HIV/AIDS

30 November 2009
On the eve of World AIDS Day, the United Nations today issued new recommendations for fighting the pandemic, calling for an earlier start to treatment for adults and adolescents, as well as urging HIV-positive mothers and their infants to take antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) while breastfeeding to prevent transmission.
Support group for people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa

UN reports promising trend in HIV infection rates, record numbers living with virus

24 November 2009
The trend in new HIV infections around the world has slowed markedly over the past eight years, according to a United Nations report released today, which also notes that more people than ever before are living with the virus.

Ban congratulates US leader for lifting entry restriction based on HIV status

31 October 2009
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today congratulated United States President Barack Obama for announcing that travel restrictions for people living with HIV from entering the country will be removed.

UN welcomes United States removal of entry restriction based on HIV status

30 October 2009
The United Nations agency spearheading the world body’s efforts to tackle the HIV/AIDS pandemic today welcomed the decision of the United States to remove 22-year-old entry restrictions based on HIV status.

UN-backed report outlines social, political factors driving AIDS pandemic

22 September 2009
Violence against women, the transition from war to peace and the criminalization of drug use and homosexuality are among the political, economic and social factors driving the HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to a United Nations-backed report released today.
President Paul Kagame of Rwanda (right) with UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé

Senior UN officials applaud Rwandan efforts to stop the spread of HIV and tuberculosis

2 September 2009
Senior United Nations officials today praised Rwanda for successfully integrating the treatment of patients suffering from HIV and tuberculosis after witnessing first-hand the delivery of health services in the African nation.

New UN-backed report finds declining funding levels for HIV vaccine research

20 July 2009
A new United Nations-backed report on investment in HIV prevention research in 2008 finds that funding levels for a possible vaccine for the virus have decreased for the first time since investment trends have been tracked.

UN uses post office network to raise awareness about HIV prevention

7 July 2009
United Nations agencies plan to use hundreds of thousands of post offices around the world as part of a new campaign to raise awareness about HIV prevention at a time when more than 7,400 new infections occur every day.