July

UNAIDS to release new data showing end of AIDS is possible by 2030, but only if leaders act now on resourcing and rights

UNAIDS will launch a new report, The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroads just ahead of...

22 July 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS and China sign two strategic agreements to advance the HIV response

Beijing, 15 July 2024 – The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and China...

15 July 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS welcomes the adoption of a key HIV resolution by the Human Rights Council

GENEVA, 12 July 2024— UNAIDS welcomes the adoption, by consensus, of a critical...

12 July 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Joint UN statement calling for sexual and reproductive health and rights for all

Joint UN statement calling for sexual and reproductive health and rights for all

11 July 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

New HIV drug can only offer hope of ending AIDS if all have access, UNAIDS says

GENEVA, 10 July 2024— UNAIDS has welcomed the release of Gilead Sciences’ trial results...

10 July 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Girls’ education for HIV prevention at 1st Pan-African Conference on Girls’ and Women’s Education in Africa

Girls’ education as a tool to prevent HIV infection has been centered at the 1st African...

8 July 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

June

Governments, civil society and United Nations agencies join together to “accelerate and sustain” a resilient response to HIV

GENEVA, 27 June 2024—At the 54th meeting of UNAIDS’ Programme Coordinating Board (PCB)...

27 June 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Mountaintop moment: Ensuring a sustainable AIDS response beyond 2030

Key figures in the AIDS response came together at the 54th meeting of the UNAIDS...

27 June 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

United Nations General Assembly debate highlights the need for urgent action to ensure that progress in the HIV response is accelerated and sustained

On 19 June 2024, the United Nations General Assembly convened to evaluate the progress...

26 June 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

To help ensure the end of AIDS, leaders need to move away from punitive approaches to people who use drugs

GENEVA, 26 June 2024—UNAIDS welcomes the recent report by Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, Special...

26 June 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS and Global Fund sign a new strategic framework for their collaboration to end AIDS

UNAIDS Executive Director, Winnie Byanyima, and Executive Director of The Global Fund to...

24 June 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS applauds Namibian High Court's decision to declare unconstitutional the law that had criminalised same-sex relationships

GENEVA, 21 JUNE 2024—UNAIDS applauds the judgment by the High Court of Namibia, striking...

21 June 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Four Albanian cities commit to ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030

Four Albanian cities—Kolonja, Durrës, Pogradec, and Shkodra—have signed the Paris...

19 June 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Splash of colors: Exhibit at UNAIDS headquarters by members of People Living with HIV Geneva Association

PVA-Geneva offers art therapy sessions weekly to all of its members. For the Director of...

17 June 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS urges sub-Saharan African countries and global partners to ensure children living with HIV are on life-saving treatment and to stop new infections

On the International day of the African Child this 16 June, UNAIDS is...

14 June 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS commends Mexico's ban on conversion therapy

​UNAIDS has applauded the decision by Mexico to ban the practice of so-called "...

12 June 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS Executive Director and Inequality Council urge G20 to back bold network on medicine production and address the social determinants of pandemics

At the G20 preparatory meeting in Brazil, Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under-...

6 June 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

To protect sex workers’ health, protect their human rights

On International Sex Workers’ Day, 2nd June 2024, and every day, UNAIDS stands in...

2 June 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

May

UNAIDS and the Australian Government sign partnership to boost the fight against AIDS

The Government of Australia and UNAIDS have today signed a new multi-million-dollar...

30 May 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS stands with LGBTQ+ communities worldwide as PRIDE celebrations get underway

As LGBTQ+ communities and allies take to the streets to mark PRIDE month, UNAIDS is...

29 May 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UN Plus relaunches to support and advocate for UN workforce members living with HIV

The survey findings underscored that many UN workforce living with HIV still face...

28 May 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Meet Azima: Frontline hero of the HIV response in Uzbekistan

Azima has lived with HIV since childhood; she was abandoned by her parents and raised by...

27 May 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS launches inequalities visualization tool

Tackling inequalities is how the world will end AIDS, so it is vital to know what type of...

20 May 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS calls for the protection of human rights on the International Day to End Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT)

Ahead of IDAHOBIT, commemorated worldwide on 17 May, UNAIDS is calling on governments...

15 May 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

April

UNAIDS expresses deep concern over the passing of new anti-LGBT legislation in Iraq

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is deeply concerned about the...

30 April 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS – planning for sustainability of the HIV response up to and beyond 2030

To support countries and partners in implementing the Sustainability Framework as...

30 April 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

How communities led in the HIV response, saving lives in Eswatini at the peak of a crippling AIDS epidemic

Eswatini is one of the countries which has been most affected by HIV. At the peak of the...

25 April 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS welcomes Court’s ruling to protect the rights of LGBTQ people in Dominica

UNAIDS welcomes the decision of the High Court of Dominica to protect the rights of LGBTQ...

22 April 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Navigating HIV services during migration crisis in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Countries affected by the migration crisis in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, prompted...

17 April 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS calls for sustained and expanded health and HIV investments at the Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank

Debt restructuring and reforms to the global tax system are urgently required to finance...

16 April 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Expand HIV services to power gains across health, urges new report

A new report released today by UNAIDS and Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS,...

15 April 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Sudan’s unsung heroes: Protecting people living with and affected by HIV amidst conflict and famine

One year ago, on 15 April 2023, armed conflict broke out in Sudan between the Sudanese...

15 April 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Monaco Principality renews its collaboration with UNAIDS

Winnie Byanyima, the Executive Director of UNAIDS—the organization leading the global...

11 April 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS notes the judgment of the Constitutional Court of Uganda which has struck down certain parts of the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023

The Constitutional Court of Uganda has today struck down certain sections of the Anti-...

3 April 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

March

With a modest increase in investment UNAIDS can get 35 countries over the line to end their AIDS pandemics by 2025

UNAIDS is urging donors for a modest increase in funding to ensure that 35 countries can...

28 March 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Haiti’s crisis exacerbates vulnerability of people living with and affected by HIV. UNAIDS committed to continuing to provide support to people in need.

The humanitarian crisis in Haiti is exacerbating the vulnerability of people living with...

27 March 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS urges Indian Ocean Island countries to strengthen HIV prevention to end AIDS

Despite progress across most of sub-Saharan Africa, UNAIDS warns that gaps in HIV...

27 March 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS welcomes governments’ commitment to end AIDS, tackle gender-based violence, discrimination and inequalities

On 22 March, governments attending the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of...

25 March 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS welcomes the adoption of a crucial resolution recognizing harm reduction measures at the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs

UNAIDS welcomes the adoption of a key resolution today at the 67th session of the United...

22 March 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Guayaquil joins the worldwide group of cities committed to ending the HIV epidemic

Mayor Aquiles Alvarez Henriques of Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city and the nation's...

15 March 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS urges scaling up of evidence-based services to address the transmission of HIV and viral hepatitis among people who use drugs

At the 67th meeting of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs taking place in...

14 March 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Reductions in new HIV infections in several Global HIV Prevention Coalition countries, but global progress needs to be accelerated

A new report, HIV Prevention: From Crisis to Opportunity shows that HIV infections...

13 March 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Invest in women and girls’ education and health rights to end AIDS in Africa

Despite substantial declines in new HIV infections globally, the HIV/AIDS epidemic...

11 March 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

At the 68th Commission on Status of Women UNAIDS calls for action to achieve gender equality and end AIDS

UNAIDS is gearing up for the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (#...

11 March 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Asia Pacific women living with HIV build their power through Feminist School

One-third of people living with HIV in Asia and the Pacific are women. But their issues...

8 March 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Community leadership driving progress to eliminate mother-to-child HIV transmission in Indonesia

In June 2023 Indonesia established the National Alliance to End AIDS in Children. This...

7 March 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

On International Women’s Day, UNAIDS calls for protecting women’s rights to protect their health

Ahead of International Women’s Day, celebrated on 8 March, UNAIDS is calling for the...

6 March 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

February

UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima responds to the passage of the Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill in Ghana’s parliament

Responding to the passage of the Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill in...

28 February 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Expertise France partners with UNAIDS to fight HIV stigma and discrimination in western and central Africa

The French public international cooperation agency ‘Expertise France’ and UNAIDS have...

28 February 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

On the 10th anniversary of Zero Discrimination Day UNAIDS calls for the protection of human rights as a path to protecting health for all

On this Zero Discrimination Day (1 March), and across the whole month of March, events...

27 February 2024   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |