The United Nations health agency is reinstating two generic AIDS antiretroviral drugs it de-listed earlier this year after the Indian manufacturer carried out new studies to confirm that the medicines, widely used in developing countries, are as effective as their brand-name counterparts.
As preparations for Wednesday's observance of World AIDS Day gather steam, a United Nations official today stressed that HIV-prevention programmes targeting peacekeepers can help stop the epidemic's spread in areas where the UN is operating.
The number of women living with HIV has risen in each region of the world over the past two years, with the steepest increases in East Asia, followed by Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to a new United Nations report released today.
By 2010 sub-Saharan Africa’s total labour force is expected to shrink by 9 per cent due to HIV/AIDS, with losses topping 20 per cent in the worst affected countries, a United Nations-organized workshop has been told.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today warned that failure to speed up disbursement of grants already made to the campaign against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis put at risk necessary new contributions.
Sex workers around the world can now help protect themselves and their clients from HIV/AIDS with the first-ever online tool kit aimed at bringing valuable expertise and preventive practices to the underground industry, which suffers a general lack of access to these services, the United Nations health agency announced today.
Integrating providers of reproductive health services into the battle against HIV infection could bring the campaign to millions of women who are now at the centre of the global pandemic but fall through gaps in preventive efforts, according to a new United Nations analysis published today.
Training health service workers to tackle HIV/AIDS will also help improve general health care in developing countries, the United Nations public health chief said as he thanked Canada for donating C$100 million (US$82.82 million) to provide such instruction.
