HIV

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.