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- 2011 Political Declaration: Targets and elimination commitments
More Aid Effectiveness & Country Capacity Division Feature Stories
- UNAIDS Forum on HIV, Human Rights and Men Who Have Sex with Men
- As part of his official visit to Washington, D.C., UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé participated in the Forum on HIV, Human Rights and Men Who Have Sex with Men on 16 September 2009. The event was organized by UNAIDS in collaboration with the HIV Policy Working Group on Men Who Have Sex with Men and Other Sexual Minorities, and in cooperation with the Honorable Howard Berman (D-CA) and the Honorable Barbara Lee (D-CA).
- Michel Sidibé presents UNAIDS’ vision in Washington, D.C.
- The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Global Health Policy Center invited the UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé to share his vision for the future direction of UNAIDS, including prospects for accelerated global action in support of universal access to HIV services.
- Moldova: NGOs coming together to strengthen HIV response
- Speaking with many voices and representing many different perspectives, the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play a key role in the response to the AIDS epidemic in countries around the world. As key partners in the development of national AIDS responses, NGOs are well positioned to provide quantative and qualitative information to augment the data collected by governments.
- Lesotho: HIV free babies bring hope
- Michel Sidibé, executive director of UNAIDS has ended his visit to Lesotho with call for strengthened health services for mothers living with HIV and their babies to help end vertical transmission of HIV.
- Morocco: Coming together to strengthen the AIDS response in the workplace
- The world of work is a key arena for successfully challenging the AIDS epidemic. To promote this challenge in Morocco, the Ministry of Employment, in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and UNAIDS, hosted a two-day national workshop on HIV workplace programmes in Casablanca at the end of June.
- UNAIDS Executive Director met Caribbean delegations
- UNAIDS Executive Director Mr Michel Sidibé met on Wednesday 20th May with a delegation of the Caribbean community (CARICOM) at the 62nd World Health Assembly to discuss the Caribbean priorities for collaboration with UNAIDS.
- Romania discusses successful national AIDS response with UNAIDS
- During an official visit to Bucharest, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé yesterday met with Mr Ion Bazac, Minister of Health of Romania.
- UN Secretary General applauds efforts to address AIDS in Lao PDR
- The United Nations Secretary-General, Mr Ban Ki-moon, praised the efforts of the UN Country Team and its partners to support prevention, treatment, care and support activities for people living with HIV, and to raise knowledge and understanding of the issue in Lao PDR.
- UNAIDS praises Viet Nam’s efforts to reach universal access
- UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé praised Viet Nam’s efforts to reach its universal access goals in a meeting with Viet Nam’s Deputy Prime Minister H.E. Mr Truong Vinh Trong in Paris. The meeting took place on 28 April during a study visit to the Netherlands and France.
- UNAIDS reaffirms its partnership with Global Fund as board meeting concludes
- The 19th Board Meeting of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) concluded yesterday in Geneva, Switzerland. Opening a technical session on “The Global Fund's role as a strategic and responsible investor in HIV/AIDS” earlier, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé reaffirmed UNAIDS commitment to its partnership and reiterated his call for a fully funded Global Fund. He called for bolder action in order to address the challenges facing the AIDS response.
- AIDS responses in action in rural Ethiopia
- Across Ethiopia, community initiatives and local government are coming together to make a difference in the AIDS response. During his official travel to the country, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé visited some of the programmes and projects putting into action the goals of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services.
- New UNGASS Guidelines for 2010 reporting
- To assist Member States in preparing and submitting their 2010 Country Progress reports, UNAIDS has released the new UNGASS Guidelines on Construction of Core Indicators for 2010 reporting.
- Insight into AIDS responses in Middle East and North Africa
- Across North Africa and the Middle East, UNAIDS estimates that 35,000 people acquired HIV in 2007, bringing to 380,000 the number of people living with HIV. An estimated 25,000 died of AIDS-related illness in the same year. Effectively coordinated HIV prevention, treatment, care and support strategies are vital to the reduction of these figures.
- New tool distills guidance on writing strong Global Fund HIV proposals
- As applicants prepare their proposals for the next round of HIV funding, Round 9, UNAIDS and WHO have jointly developed an online resource kit to provide guidance in planning and writing strong Global Fund proposals.
- US AIDS relief programme exceeds goals for HIV treatment and care
- According to the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) 2009 Annual Report, PEPFAR has exceeded its five-year goals for treatment of two million and care of ten million people.
- HIV: Know your epidemic, understand the politics
- For every two people accessing HIV treatment, another five are newly infected with the virus. Given the gap, there is broad agreement among scientific, government and civil society communities on the need to intensify HIV prevention efforts.
- More prevention focus needed for the Caribbean to sharpen its response to HIV
- Those at highest risk of being infected by HIV in the Caribbean are not generally included at the heart of HIV prevention strategies. This is one of the conclusions of Keeping Score II, a publication launched by UNAIDS Caribbean Regional Support Team recently in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
- Public and private sector partnerships in the AIDS response: An opportunity for innovation and leadership
- Assessing what really works in the AIDS response, and understanding how it works, is all the more pressing in the current context of global financial slowdown said experts at an ICASA session on Friday. The event, “Public private partnerships against HIV: how can we together turn the tide?” was organized by UNAIDS as part of the conference’s Leadership Programme.
- ICASA 2008: Long term financing for a sustainable response in Africa
- The priority of investment in health is crucial for African countries’ successful development stressed Dr Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. Dr Kazatchkine was speaking at the 15th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) where he highlighted the need for a long-term approach to the reinforcement of health systems in sub-Saharan Africa. Only this will mean a sustainable response to the AIDS epidemic.
- UNAIDS welcomes Mrs Carla Bruni-Sarkozy’s Ambassador role for Global Fund
- Mrs Carla Bruni-Sarkozy took up her appointment as Ambassador for the Protection of Mothers and Children against HIV/AIDS of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) at an event in Paris.
Press centre
- 21 May 2013
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UNAIDS reports more than 7 million people now on HIV treatment across Africa––with nearly 1 million added in the last year—while new HIV infections and deaths from AIDS continue to fall . More
- 21 May 2013
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UNAIDS saddened by death of human rights activist Shivananda Khan. More