HIV

Partnership in slashing HIV/AIDS to be focus of UN-backed meeting

10 March 2008
Major actors in the worldwide struggle against the HIV/AIDS pandemic will share experiences of how partnerships can expand the reach of their programmes at a meeting co-sponsored by the United Nations this June in Uganda, where the infection rate has been slowed and around half those infected reached by treatment.

Countries must do more to protect mothers and children from HIV/AIDS – UN

6 March 2008
With over 1,100 children being infected with HIV daily, United Nations organizations have appealed to countries to bolster efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmissions (PMTCT) of the virus.
Meeting of the International Task Team on HIV-related Travel Restrictions in Geneva

UN programme to work toward elimination of HIV travel restrictions

5 March 2008
Calling travel restrictions on HIV positive people, in place in 104 countries, discriminatory and unnecessary, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has set up an international task force to work toward their elimination.