HIV

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) with Rebecca Awiti, a Kenyan mother living with HIV who has three children – all of them HIV negative, at a UNAIDS special event commemorating World AIDS Day 2016.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

Ahead of World AIDS Day, UN chief honoured for work to end epidemic, fight against stigma

30 November 2016
Speaking at a special event commemorating World AIDS Day, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today underscored the need to stop stigma and abuse against those living with the disease and to ensure that they receive the care, treatment and protection they are entitled to.
HIV testing in Haiti.
UNDP

UN health agency issues new guidelines on HIV self-testing

29 November 2016
Ahead of World AIDS Day, marked annually on 1 December, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has released new guidelines on HIV self-testing, which aim to help millions of people know their HIV status and get treatment.
Longezo, from Malawi, taking his HIV medication.
UNICEF/Schermbrucker

HIV self-test is key to fighting AIDS, says WHO

29 November 2016
General News

Encouraging people to test themselves for HIV could be a game-changer in the fight to rid the world of AIDS, UN health experts have said.

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Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé (left) with President of Namibia, Hage Geingob and his wife Monica, at the launch of Get on the Fast-Track: the life-cycle approach to HIV, in Windhoek, Namibia.
UNAIDS

Even as HIV treatment soars, young women still face high infection risk, UN warns

21 November 2016
The United Nations warned today that while more people than ever are accessing antiretroviral treatment for HIV, girls aged 15 to 24, transitioning to womanhood, face many HIV-related challenges, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, and called for a life-cycle approach to finding solutions for everyone, at all stages of life.