HIV

AIDS epidemic grows in China, with 70,000 new HIV cases every year: report

25 January 2006
China’s AIDS epidemic is growing and every year 70,000 more people become infected with HIV, according to a report released today by the Chinese Ministry of Health, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World Health Organization (WHO).

UN cultural agency and global business group sign pact to fight AIDS

16 January 2006
The head of the United Nations cultural agency and the President of the Global Business Coalition (GBC) on HIV/AIDS today in Paris signed an agreement to fight the disease by promoting preventive education and encouraging partnerships.

UNAIDS expresses concern over arrests of men who have sex with men in India

11 January 2006
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has expressed concern that the recent arrests of men who have sex with men in Lucknow, India, criminalizes the people most at risk of HIV infection possibly increases stigma and discrimination and could expand the AIDS epidemic.