Human rights
Documents
The impact of HIV-related restrictions on entry, stay and residence: personal narratives
18 August 2009
The impact of HIV-related restrictions on entry, stay and residence: an annotated bibliography was commissioned by the International Task Team on HIV-related Travel Restrictions. The Task Team was established by UNAIDS in January 2008 as an advisory/technical group whose role was to galvanize attention to such restrictions on national, regional and international agendas, calling for and supporting efforts towards their elimination. The principles of non-discrimination and the greater involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS Principle formed the core of the Task Team’s work and provided the context in which its efforts were set.
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UNAIDS data 2024
02 December 2024
Global celebrities unite behind UNAIDS’ call for world leaders to “take the rights path to end AIDS”

01 December 2024
Take the rights path to end AIDS — World AIDS Day report 2024
26 November 2024
Evelyn Siula: A journey of strength and solidarity
18 November 2024
Peru approves groundbreaking law to extend health coverage for migrants with HIV and TB

21 October 2024
Can this innovation change the way people think about HIV?

16 October 2024
Documents
The impact of HIV-related restrictions on entry, stay and residence: an annotated bibliography
18 August 2009
The impact of HIV-related restrictions on entry, stay and residence: an annotated bibliography was commissioned by the International Task Team on HIV-related Travel Restrictions. The Task Team was established by UNAIDS in January 2008 as an advisory/technical group whose role was to galvanize attention to such restrictions on national, regional and international agendas, calling for and supporting efforts towards their elimination. The principles of non-discrimination and the greater involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS Principle formed the core of the Task Team’s work and provided the context in which its efforts were set.
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UNAIDS data 2024
02 December 2024
Global celebrities unite behind UNAIDS’ call for world leaders to “take the rights path to end AIDS”

01 December 2024
Take the rights path to end AIDS — World AIDS Day report 2024
26 November 2024
Evelyn Siula: A journey of strength and solidarity
18 November 2024
Peru approves groundbreaking law to extend health coverage for migrants with HIV and TB

21 October 2024
Can this innovation change the way people think about HIV?

16 October 2024
Documents
We can remove punitive laws, policies, practices, stigma and discrimination that block effective responses to HIV
01 August 2010
Despite remarkable recent successes in the global response to HIV, punitive laws, policies, practices, stigma and human rights violations (see Annex) are threatening progress towards universal access targets and the Millennium Development Goals. Successful strategies for HIV prevention, treatment, care and support require supportive legal, regulatory and social environments that advance human rights, gender equality and social justice goals. Punishing and stigmatizing environments, in contrast, can increase people’s vulnerability to HIV infection, reduce access to and use of HIV services and other health and social services, discourage individual behaviour change, and increase the impact of HIV on people already living with the virus and on their families and communities.
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UNAIDS data 2024
02 December 2024
Global celebrities unite behind UNAIDS’ call for world leaders to “take the rights path to end AIDS”

01 December 2024
Take the rights path to end AIDS — World AIDS Day report 2024
26 November 2024
Evelyn Siula: A journey of strength and solidarity
18 November 2024
Documents
Men Having Sex with Men and Human Rights: The UNAIDS Perspective; Statement by Susan Timberlake, Senior Law and Human Rights Adviser, UNAIDS Secretariat, Geneva
29 March 2006
I am speaking today on the human rights of men who have sex with men and the UNAIDS perspective. Let me start by saying that UNAIDS does not have formal oversight of any human rights treaty, like UNICEF, but like any UN agency, UNAIDS is accountable for respecting and promoting the principles of the UN Charter. For the staff, the Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service, paragraph 3, state that “The values that are enshrined in the United Nations organizations must also be those that guide international civil servants in all their actions: fundamental human rights, social justice, the dignity and worth of the human person and respect for the equal rights of men and women and of nations great and small.”
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29th Ordinary General Assembly of the Organization of African First Ladies for Development
16 February 2025
55th meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board
10 December 2024
UNAIDS data 2024
02 December 2024
Global celebrities unite behind UNAIDS’ call for world leaders to “take the rights path to end AIDS”

01 December 2024
Take the rights path to end AIDS — World AIDS Day report 2024
26 November 2024
20th Indian Ocean Colloquium on HIV/AIDS
22 October 2024
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Status of HIV Programmes in Indonesia

24 February 2025
29th Ordinary General Assembly of the Organization of African First Ladies for Development
16 February 2025
Lost and link: Indonesian initiative to find people living with HIV who stopped their treatment

21 January 2025
55th meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board
10 December 2024
UNAIDS data 2024
02 December 2024
Take the rights path to end AIDS — World AIDS Day report 2024
26 November 2024
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UNAIDS calls for rights, equality and empowerment for all women and girls on International Women’s Day

06 March 2025
Impact of the pause of US foreign assistance in Côte d'Ivoire

19 February 2025
29th Ordinary General Assembly of the Organization of African First Ladies for Development
16 February 2025
Government mitigation measures in Cameroon

09 February 2025
55th meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board
10 December 2024
UNAIDS data 2024
02 December 2024
Documents
"AIDS and gender equality: a time for new paradigms" - Speech by Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS Executive Director - Opening of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 53rd Session, 2 March 2009
02 March 2009
It troubles me greatly to say that caring societies are in recession. We are bombarded with news and reports of increasingly terrible acts perpetuated on women. In South Africa according the Medical Research Council of Cape Town University, one in four women report being abused by an intimate partner – and every six hours a woman is killed. In the UK according to the British Crime Survey, a reported 80,000 women suffer rape every year2. Research from a number of countries confirms what seems common sense: there is a strong relationship between intimate partner violence and HIV status.
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UNAIDS calls for rights, equality and empowerment for all women and girls on International Women’s Day

06 March 2025
29th Ordinary General Assembly of the Organization of African First Ladies for Development
16 February 2025
55th meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board
10 December 2024
UNAIDS data 2024
02 December 2024
Take the rights path to end AIDS — World AIDS Day report 2024
26 November 2024
Documents
Putting People First: The AIDS response in Asia and the Pacific
09 August 2009
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U=U can help end HIV stigma and discrimination. Here’s how

27 February 2025
29th Ordinary General Assembly of the Organization of African First Ladies for Development
16 February 2025
Documents
Universal access for men who have sex with men: winds of change; signs of hope
17 September 2009
I thank Chairman Howard Berman and Congresswoman Barbara Lee for their leadership on this issue. I would also like to thank the “MSM Policy Working Group” of the Global AIDS Roundtable for organizing this Forum and inviting me to say a few words. I am honoured to share the platform with my good friend Ambassador Eric Goosby, who brings extensive experience working with the gay community’s early response to the epidemic and San Francisco and to all of you working on the front lines.
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29th Ordinary General Assembly of the Organization of African First Ladies for Development
16 February 2025
UNAIDS urges that all essential HIV services must continue while U.S. pauses its funding for foreign aid

01 February 2025
55th meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board
10 December 2024
UNAIDS data 2024
02 December 2024
Documents
South Africa’s Reinvigorated AIDS Response - Speech by Michel Sidibé
01 December 2009
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The impact of the US funding freeze and cuts on Namibia’s civil society: A struggle for survival

10 March 2025
Comprehensive update on HIV programmes in South Africa

25 February 2025
Zambia - an HIV response at a crossroads

24 February 2025
Status of HIV Programmes in Botswana

20 February 2025