HIV

Annan urges world leaders to be accountable for promises made on HIV/AIDS

30 November 2006
Calling the struggle against the HIV/AIDS pandemic “the greatest challenge of our generation,” Secretary-General Kofi Annan tonight called on international leaders to make sure they deliver on all the promises that their governments have made.

Zambian tailor wins AIDS award for providing orphans with free school uniforms

30 November 2006
Six years after a teenage Zambian tailor started using his only sewing machine to make free school uniforms for AIDS orphans, the organization he founded has become one of the first winners of a United Nations prize to honour community groups on the front line of the global fight against the pandemic.

Regional approach key to fight HIV/AIDS in Horn of Africa, UN-backed meeting told

14 November 2006
Horn of Africa countries, meeting to combat the alarming spread of HIV/AIDS in a region that has around 2 million people suffering from the disease, have agreed to work together for prevention, according to a joint United Nations effort set up to tackle the scourge.
Stephen Lewis

UNIFEM, top HIV/AIDS envoy in Africa hail panel’s call for new gender agency

10 November 2006
The United Nations women’s fund chief and UN envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa have heralded a high-level panel’s call for the creation of a new gender agency as a major step towards equality.

UN agencies spearhead efforts to curb escalating spread of HIV in Asia-Pacific

7 November 2006
With an estimated 930,000 new HIV infections in Asia and the Pacific last year, United Nations agencies have called for urgent efforts to prevent the escalating spread of the virus and reduce mortality by better integrating HIV prevention, treatment and care into maternal and newborn health services.