HIV

Huge challenge remains to treating 3 million AIDS patients by end of 2005 – UN

26 January 2005
By the end of 2004, 700,000 AIDS-infected people in developing countries were receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART), an increase of 75 per cent over a year ago but still posing an enormous challenge in order to meet the target of reaching 3 million people by the end of this year, United Nations agencies reported today.
Dr. Peter Piot of UNAIDS

Chief of UN programme on HIV/AIDS reappointed to four-year term

25 January 2005
The head of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has been reappointed for another four years to spearhead the world body's battle against a global pandemic in which close to 40 million people now live with the virus.

Businesses failing in policies to tackle AIDS threat – UN-backed report

20 January 2005
In a critical report on the corporate response to the social and business threats of HIV/AIDS, a new United Nations-backed report today lamented that businesses rarely draw up written policies to tackle the crisis, such as counselling, testing and treatment, until 20 per cent of a country’s population is infected.
Stephen Lewis

UN envoy battling AIDS in Africa finds infected children lack key treatment

18 January 2005
Although 2.2 million children are living with AIDS, at least two-thirds of them in Africa, anti-retroviral formulations for children are not available and the youngsters are just being left to die, a United Nations special envoy battling HIV/AIDS on the continent said today.

UNAIDS congratulates Mandela on his candour on son's death from AIDS

10 January 2005
Expressing condolences to former South African President Nelson Mandela on the recent death of his only surviving son, the Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said his candour in disclosing that his son had died in the pandemic was vital in the fight against stigmatizing AIDS victims.