HIV

Launch of a new UNAIDS report entitled Global AIDS update 2016.
UNAIDS

Two million more people living with HIV on life-saving treatment in 2015 – new UN report

31 May 2016
The number of HIV-positive people taking antiretroviral medicines more than doubled to an estimated 17 million people from 2010 to 2015, with two million people gaining access to the life-saving drug last year alone, the United Nations agency leading the world’s HIV/AIDS response announced today.
In Lesotho, A woman holds the AIDS anti-retroviral treatment medicine for her granddaughter.
IRIN/Eva-Lotta Jansson

HIV: 17 million worldwide now accessing life-saving medicines

31 May 2016
General News

There has been an “extraordinary scale-up” in the number of people living with HIV who are now accessing life-saving medicines, according to a new UN report.

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Charles Radcliffe. UN File Photo/Cia Pak

LGBTI community faces systematic attempt to stifle its voice

19 May 2016
General News

The international community of lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender and intersex people faces a systematic attempt to stifle their right to voice an opinion; that’s according to Charles Radcliffe from the UN human rights office (OH

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