HIV

Photo: UNAIDS/D. Kwande
UNAIDS/D. Kwande

UN-backed initiative announces deal to sharply lower price of HIV early infant diagnosis

20 July 2015
A dramatic 35 per cent reduction in the price for HIV early infant diagnostic technologies today has been announced by the United Nations-backed Diagnostics Access Initiative, in partnership with Roche Diagnostics.
Peer educator Arafat speaks with a group of school children and distribute HIV/AIDS awareness materials, in a community in Khartoum, Sudan.
UNICEF/SUDA2014-XX166/Noorani

ADDIS: world has delivered on halting and reversing AIDS epidemic, UN announces

14 July 2015
The world has exceeded the targets contained in the Millennium Development Goals to halt and reverse the spread of HIV and is on track to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, according to a report released today in Addis Ababa by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
PAHO-WHO have been working with partners in Cuba and other countries in the Americas to implement a regional initiative to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis.
PAHO/WHO

Cuba achieves global milestone in eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis

5 July 2015
General News

Cuba has become the first country to receive validation from the World Health Organization (WHO) for eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis.

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