The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria today approved new grants totalling $2.9 billion, drawing immediate praise from the United Nations.
The United Nations agencies for refugees and for HIV/AIDS have teamed up as part of the effort to strengthen the world body’s response to the global epidemic of the disease.
Two United Nations agencies today welcomed the endorsement by the leaders of the Group of Eight most-industrialized countries of a new international consortium for accelerating the development of an HIV vaccine.
Intensively educated about HIV/AIDS, refugees in East Africa have made progress in the fight against the infection by changing their sexual behaviour, according to a HIV/AIDS expert in the United Nations refugee agency.
Ethiopia has taken crucial steps to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic, but the east African country urgently needs external assistance if its efforts are to meet with success, a senior United Nations official said today.
