HIV

Annan urges unified fight against AIDS as UN opens session on pandemic

31 May 2006
As the United Nations General Assembly today opened a special meeting on AIDS, Secretary General Kofi Annan urged participants – including a dozen heads of State and numerous ministers – to unify their efforts to fight the disease especially as it affects young women, who globally suffer double the infection rates of young men.

Secretary-General calls for closer engagement of HIV-infected persons in fighting AIDS

31 May 2006
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the international community to involve HIV-infected people more closely in the fight against AIDS.

UN-backed Global Fund says investment in treatment and prevention pays off

31 May 2006
The number of people being treated for HIV/AIDS through resources provided by the United Nations-backed Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has risen to more than half a million, while programmes it has supported to distribute insecticide-treated bed nets in malaria-plagued countries are now reaching more than 11 million people, officials said today.
NBA, UNICEF, UNAIDS announce PSAs

Making kids champions: UN agencies team up with basketball stars to fight AIDS

31 May 2006
United Nations agencies today teamed up with the premier basketball league in the United States to launch a global campaign aimed at mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and halting the spread of the virus through public service announcements (PSAs) that will air during championship games, reaching hundreds of millions of fans worldwide.
Participants at AIDS Press Conference

Fight against AIDS has achieved important but uneven global progress – UN

30 May 2006
In the most comprehensive report so far on the world’s progress in combating the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the main United Nations agency combating the disease says most countries have built a strong foundation on which to mount an effective response but new infections are continuing to increase in certain areas.

UNICEF and partners urge support for HIV-positive children

26 May 2006
Only one child in twenty who needs HIV treatment receives it, according to a report launched today by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and its partner child advocacy organizations urging that the international community redress this problem to save lives.
German footballer Michael Ballack

UN enlists German soccer star Michael Ballack to save lives in battle against AIDS

25 May 2006
Just a week after turning to the world of the arts to promote its cause, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) went out on the soccer field today, enlisting German National Team captain Michael Ballack as a Special Representative to save young lives by raising awareness with a focus on youth and sport.

UN to host major review of global response to AIDS

24 May 2006
More than a dozen Heads of State and Government, over 100 Ministers, as well as more than a thousand representatives of civil society and the private sector are set to gather at United Nations Headquarters in New York next week for a major review of international efforts to fight AIDS in what officials at the world body today said would be marked by unprecedented action.

UN agency’s ‘AIDS clock’ ticks to represent pandemic’s toll

23 May 2006
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has relaunched its AIDS Clock, an exhibit that has been counting the relentless toll of the epidemic since 1997.

Eastern Europe/Central Asia face world’s most rapidly expanding AIDS epidemic – UN

15 May 2006
With 270,000 people newly infected with HIV in 2005 alone, the Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) region faces the world’s most rapidly expanding AIDS epidemic, and treatment and preventive measures must be urgently boosted, United Nations officials said today.