July

UNAIDS strongly condemns violence against LGBTI activists in Tbilisi, Georgia

UNAIDS strongly condemns the attacks on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex...

7 July 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS calls on Hungary to immediately remove amendments discriminatory to LGBTI people from newly adopted law

UNAIDS is deeply concerned by new legislation in Hungary that includes discriminatory...

6 July 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS saddened by the death of Phumzile Mabizela

It is with deep sadness that I received the news that the Reverend Phumzile Mabizela, the...

6 July 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Education Plus launched in response to alarming rates of HIV among adolescent girls and young women in Africa

Unequal gender power dynamics continue to put women and girls at higher risk of acquiring...

6 July 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS Board closes after discussing the way forward for the new 2022–2026 UNAIDS budget, results and accountability framework

The 48th meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB), which commenced on 29...

6 July 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

YouTube influencers campaign to increase PrEP uptake among Mandarin-speaking people in Australia

ACON, one of Australia’s largest HIV organizations, working to promote HIV prevention...

5 July 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Ending AIDS on wheels: a drive with Samuel Larkai

In 1999, when he started working for UNAIDS, Samuel Larkai committed himself to using his...

5 July 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

New film sends a powerful message to world leaders: end inequalities, end AIDS

Celebrities and supporters of the global HIV response take part in a new UNAIDS film and...

1 July 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Report shows big COVID-19-related HIV prevention programme service disruptions, but highlights that HIV service innovations and adaptations are possible

The COVID-19 pandemic is threatening decades of hard-won development and public health...

1 July 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

June

UNAIDS, IOM: People on the move living with HIV must have access to COVID-19 vaccines

Migrants, refugees, internally displaced as well as crisis-affected and mobile...

30 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

The journey towards comprehensive sexuality education

School-based comprehensive sexuality education plays a vital role in...

28 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Training on data on the location and size estimates of key populations in western and central Africa

Since key populations and their sexual partners account for 69% of new HIV infections in...

25 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Small steps towards a big goal

On 29 June, one of the largest non-profit organizations based in Saint Petersburg,...

21 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

The importance of young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights to the global HIV response

On the sidelines of the United Nations High-Level Meeting on AIDS, a group of young...

21 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS is deeply saddened by the death of the former President of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda

UNAIDS is deeply saddened by the death of the first President of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda,...

18 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

Listening to the voices of migrants living with HIV in the Russian Federation

Sevara Khalimova (not her real name) moved from Uzbekistan to the Russian Federation to...

15 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

United Nations High-Level Meeting on AIDS draws to a close with a strong political declaration and bold new targets to be met by 2025

After weeks of robust discussions, the 2021 United Nations General Assembly High-Level...

14 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Global HIV Prevention Coalition reinforces the need for leadership and decisive action

Forty years into the HIV epidemic, despite there being a range of HIV prevention...

14 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS is deeply saddened by the death of Manuel da Quinta, a great professional and activist in the response to HIV and the promotion of human rights and equality

The UNAIDS family is deeply saddened by the death from COVID-19 of our dear colleague and...

14 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

What responses to HIV and COVID-19 in Asia and the Pacific led by civil society can teach us

COVID-19 continues to threaten the gains made in the HIV response and has brought...

11 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

City leaders unite to regain momentum in the urban HIV response

Mayors from four cities, together with a representative of civil society and the core...

11 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Young key populations from Asia and the Pacific claiming their space at the 2021 High-Level Meeting on AIDS

A side event held on the sidelines of the United Nations High-Level Meeting on AIDS, held...

11 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

First Lady of Côte d’Ivoire sponsors national consultation on paediatric HIV and tuberculosis

Children living with HIV are particularly susceptible to tuberculosis (TB), one of the...

11 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Gender equality and justice critical for ending AIDS

On 10 June, representatives of the United Nations, Member States, young women’s movements...

10 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Addressing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the AIDS response

A panel that met on the sidelines of the United Nations High-Level Meeting on AIDS,...

10 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Putting people and communities at the centre of the HIV response

Communities living with and affected by HIV, including communities of key populations,...

10 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Resources and funding for an effective AIDS response

The goal of putting the HIV response on a secure financial footing is a work in progress...

10 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Addressing inequalities to end AIDS: 10 years to 2030

HIV is fuelled by inequalities. A panel, Addressing Inequalities to End AIDS: 10 Years to...

10 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Prioritizing human rights to end inequalities and end AIDS

Inequalities and human rights barriers, which have been magnified by the COVID-19...

9 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

New global pledge to end all inequalities faced by communities and people affected by HIV towards ending AIDS

World leaders agree to reduce the annual number of new HIV infections to under 370 000...

8 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Opening remarks by UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima at the High-Level Meeting on AIDS

We cannot be neutral on inequalities. To get back on track to ending AIDS, we must be...

8 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

Strengthening national social protection systems

Many factors in society, including poverty, stigma, discrimination and persistent gender...

8 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Science, HIV and COVID-19—where are we headed?

A side event at the United Nations High-Level Meeting on AIDS, being held in New York and...

8 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Caribbean stakeholders call for focus on key populations and community-led approaches to HIV and COVID-19

Caribbean partners from governments, civil society and the development community met on 7...

8 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Faith2EndAIDS, Faith2EndInequality

Around 300 faith leaders and representatives of faith-based organizations met on 7 June...

7 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Jamaica partnership works to promote human rights

To accelerate progress towards that goal, in 2020 Jamaica became one of the first...

7 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Costa Rica joins Global Partnership for Action to Eliminate all Forms of HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination

Costa Rica has joined the Global Partnership for Action to Eliminate all Forms of HIV-...

7 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Hearing civil society’s voice on the High-Level Meeting on AIDS

At the United Nations High-Level Meeting on AIDS, which will take place from 8 to 10 June...

4 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Forty years on and new UNAIDS report gives evidence that we can end AIDS

UNAIDS urges world leaders to adopt a bold political declaration on HIV at the United...

3 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

“Even though we are sex workers, we’re still people”: living the harsh reality of sex work in Zimbabwe

Holding her baby in her arms, Melody (Melody preferred to use just her first name for...

2 June 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

May

Republic of Moldova is pioneering high-tech community-led monitoring

The Republic of Moldova has launched an online platform, ScorecardHIV, to measure...

31 May 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS supports the Partnership for Accelerated COVID-19 Testing in Ghana

The UNAIDS Country Office for Ghana is supporting the Millennium Promise Alliance, the...

25 May 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

How the LGBTI community is surviving the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia

For Vanessa Chaniago, a young transgender woman living in Jakarta, Indonesia, the first...

25 May 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Support to countries’ equitable and resilient recovery from the pandemic towards the health SDGs: The 2021 SDG3 GAP progress report

WHO and 12 other signatory agencies to the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and...

21 May 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

The world can only beat AIDS by ending the inequalities that drive the epidemic

COVID-19 pandemic threatening progress towards ending AIDS by 2030, warn UNAIDS Executive...

21 May 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

A grandmother’s transformative love for her transgender grandchild

Mampolokeng Mosolo is the picture of a dignified, proud African gogo (granny). Dressed in...

20 May 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Integrated services and inclusion key to eliminating mother-to-child HIV transmission in Dominica

Over four consecutive years, no child in the eastern Caribbean country of Dominica was...

19 May 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS Executive Director engages with women leaders and young women in Namibia

Monica Geingos, the First Lady of Namibia, showcased two flagship programmes of the...

19 May 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS and its partners implement Partnership to Accelerate COVID-19 Testing in Madagascar

UNAIDS is partnering with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa...

18 May 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

#NotYetUhuru: 60-year-old Patson Manyati reflects on being gay in Zimbabwe*

Patson Manyati cuts an awkward and lonely figure in a room bustling with young people in...

17 May 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |