May

Protecting prisoners from HIV and COVID-19 in Mexico

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

COVID-19: make it the last pandemic

UNAIDS strongly welcomes the report and recommendations of the Independent Panel on...

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

Community-led HIV services stepped up in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic

The HIV response in the Philippines has been hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially...

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

UNAIDS saddened by the death of Smarajit Jana

How do you begin to describe Mr Jana? A medical doctor, a public health specialist, an...

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

Pioneers of the harm reduction response in Uganda

The drop-in centre of the Uganda Harm Reduction Network (UHRN) looks lonely from the...

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

UNAIDS condemns new law that further criminalizes and marginalizes vulnerable groups of people in Uganda

UNAIDS is deeply concerned by the Ugandan parliament’s decision earlier this week to...

6 May 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

Specialized medical waste management equipment for Republic of Moldova’s harm reduction programme

The Union for HIV Prevention and Harm Reduction is a nongovernmental organization located...

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

Statement from the Executive Director of UNAIDS, Winnie Byanyima on the decision by the United States of America to support the TRIPS waiver for COVID-19 vaccines

I applaud the announcement from United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai...

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

UNAIDS Executive Director visits projects in Namibia that empower adolescent girls and young women

Winnie Byanyima, the UNAIDS Executive Director, recently visited the Hakahana Clinic in...

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

UNITY Platform publishes annual report on violence against sexual and gender minorities in Cameroon

The UNITY Platform, a network of 34 organizations for lesbian, gay, bisexual and...

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

UNAIDS is saddened by the death of Patrick O’Connell, the founding director of Visual AIDS

UNAIDS is saddened by the death from AIDS-related causes of Patrick O’Connell. Mr O’...

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

100% Life: 20 years of fighting

100% Life, formerly known as the All-Ukrainian Network of People Living with HIV, the...

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

Big drops in the cost of antiretroviral medicines, but COVID-19 threatens further reductions

Civil society activism and competition from manufacturers of generic drugs drove down the...

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

April

Joint mission supports the response to HIV in Gboklè/Nawa/San Pedro, Côte d'Ivoire

A joint United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/UNAIDS mission to the region from 16...

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

United Nations Secretary-General calls for a greater focus on ending inequalities to end AIDS

Forty years since the first AIDS cases were reported and just weeks before the United...

30 April 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

UNAIDS welcomes Lord Fowler as an ambassador

Norman Fowler, the pioneering United Kingdom Secretary of State for Health, human rights...

30 April 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

UNAIDS statement on UK’s proposed reduction in financial support

The government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) has...

29 April 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

High rates of hepatitis C and HIV coinfection among key populations

Viral hepatitis infection is a major global public health problem causing approximately 1...

26 April 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Interactive multistakeholder hearing takes place ahead of United Nations High-Level Meeting on AIDS

Representatives of all stakeholders in the AIDS response came together virtually on 23...

26 April 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Civil society from Asia and the Pacific join the first regional consultation on the High-Level Meeting on AIDS

More than 150 civil society representatives from 17 countries in Asia and the Pacific...

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

Epidemiological Well-Being conference opens in Moscow

The Epidemiological Well-Being international conference, which will draw...

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

Regional network of people living with HIV launched in the Middle East and North Africa

The HIV epidemic in the Middle East and North Africa is still growing—an estimated 20 000...

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

Less than 60% of pregnant women living with HIV in western and central Africa have access to services to stop vertical transmission of HIV

In western and central Africa, the picture is not so positive—coverage of services for...

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

Commission on Narcotic Drugs discusses how COVID-19 is impacting the world drug problem

The 64th regular session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs—the policymaking body of the...

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

Former heads of state and Nobel laureates call on President Biden to waive intellectual property rules for COVID vaccines

More than 170 former heads of state and government and Nobel laureates, including former...

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

Benefits of continuing to provide life-saving HIV services outweigh the risk of COVID-19 transmission by 100 to 1

Disruption to HIV services as high as 75% has been reported in some countries—to prevent...

13 April 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

Wide range in access to HIV testing of babies in the Caribbean

Early diagnosis of infants who have acquired HIV vertically (from their mother) is vital...

12 April 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Statement by Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS, on the occasion of World Health Day

On World Health Day 2021, let us make that call to ensure that people’s lives come before...

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

Keeping girls in school reduces new HIV infections

Staying in school longer has a protective benefit in reducing the risk of HIV infection....

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

President of Afghanistan declares ‘unwavering support’ for a People’s Vaccine for COVID-19

In a letter to the People’s Vaccine Alliance, President Ghani outlined that despite the...

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

New study recommends strategies to serve the under-protected Caribbean transgender community

On International Transgender Day of Visibility (March 31), the United Caribbean Trans...

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

March

UNAIDS joins human rights community in mourning Christof Heyns, legal academic and expert

Tributes have been pouring in since the announcement of the sudden passing of Christof...

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

(Wo)man in the Mirror: seeing your true self

UNAIDS is releasing the Mirror on the International Transgender Day of Visibility. Gender...

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

Solidarity fund helping transgender people during the COVID-19 pandemic

As transgender communities become increasingly marginalized, especially during the...

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

Fighting transphobia and violence one social media post at a time

The online abuse mirrors the violence most transgender women experience in Uganda at the...

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

Transgender communities in Asia and the Pacific respond to COVID-19 through activism

The global health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has brought existing...

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

UNAIDS supports community-based campaign against COVID-19 in Equatorial Guinea

The Government of Equatorial Guinea has launched a new community-based campaign against...

29 March 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Positive Women with Disabilities in Uganda puts people at the centre during COVID-19 pandemic

The World Health Organization estimates that, globally, more than 1 billion people (15%...

29 March 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Less than 40% of countries report having training programmes at the national level for law enforcement personnel on human rights and HIV

Effective HIV responses require legal, policy and social environments that empower people...

29 March 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Representatives of people living with HIV, key populations and other affected communities selected to join the multistakeholder task force for the high-level meeting on HIV

Following a public call for nominations, UNAIDS and the Programme Coordinating Board...

29 March 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS works with partners to support the COVID-19 recovery for vulnerable people in Indonesia

In Indonesia, the latest labour force survey results show that 29 million workers have...

26 March 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS shows that with the right investment we can end AIDS by 2030

UNAIDS modelling shows that investing US$ 29 billion a year in the HIV response in low-...

26 March 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS Board adopts new global AIDS strategy which paves the way to end AIDS by 2030

The new Global AIDS Strategy 2021–2026, End Inequalities, End AIDS, is a bold approach...

25 March 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

Tuberculosis deaths among people living with HIV are declining globally, but worrying gaps in TB care persist

Globally, the number of people living with HIV who died from tuberculosis (TB), a curable...

24 March 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Huge gaps in TB care for people living with HIV in some countries

All (100%) of people living with HIV newly started on antiretroviral therapy should...

24 March 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Drop-in centre provides a lifeline for sex workers in Ethiopia

Located in Bole sub-city, the Bole drop-in centre is one of 12 such centres established...

24 March 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Drop-in centre for sex workers opened in Togo

After years, their wait is over. The Association des Femmes Amazones Zen (AFAZ) has...

24 March 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Digital HIV education for Jamaican young people during COVID-19 and beyond

Since school doors closed last March due to COVID-19, the majority of Jamaican students...

22 March 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Education Plus—gender justice for adolescent girls and young women in Africa

“For a moment, imagine with me. Imagine finding out that you acquired HIV from a boy who...

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

UNAIDS welcomes bold support from the United States of America in response to colliding pandemics

UNAIDS warmly welcomes the passing of the US$ 1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act. The...

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