HIV

World’s smallest countries step up to plate for UN AIDS campaign

30 March 2006
Four of the world’s tiniest countries – San Marino, Andorra, Liechtenstein and Monaco – with a total area of 691.15 square kilometres, less than four times the size of Washington, D.C., and a total population of some 165,000, have pooled contributions to help a United Nations AIDS campaign in the African country of Gabon.

Global HIV therapy access tripled in past two years but challenges remain: UN

28 March 2006
Access to HIV treatment in low- and middle-income countries has more than tripled to 1.3 million people in the past two years with the greatest progress in those regions most heavily affected by the epidemic but this welcome progress still falls short of the ambitious United Nations target, the world body said today in a new report.

Fighting HIV/AIDS in Asia-Pacific region must focus on children – UNICEF

22 March 2006
With HIV and AIDS spreading at a faster rate in East Asia than almost anywhere else in the world, children must be at the centre of a dramatically scaled up response, a United Nations official told the opening session of the first high level regional meeting focusing on children and AIDS today.
Stephen Lewis

AIDS scourge in Africa shows urgent need for new women’s agency: UN envoy

17 March 2006
Lesotho and Swaziland are “gasping for survival” amidst the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the United Nations special envoy for the disease in Africa said today, repeating his call for setting up an international women’s agency to deal with the discrimination that has allowed the global scourge to ravage the continent.

UN, OPEC launch joint $4 million HIV/AIDS prevention project in Central Asia

16 March 2006
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Fund for International Development today launched a $4 million project to improve HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment among drug users and prisoners in five Central Asian countries and Azerbaijan.
14 million children are orphans due to HIV/AIDS

HIV children in Africa to have better treatment under new UN-backed accord

1 March 2006
Children living with HIV/AIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa will have greater access to antiretrovirals and other treatments under an agreement signed this week between the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Baylor College of Medicine of Texas.