June

Germany ramps up its contribution to the HIV response with an extra €20 million to UNAIDS

The Government of Germany has announced that, in addition to its annual core contribution...

25 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

“I also need to be happy”: Anna Morena’s story

Officially, she calls herself Juliana, but she also goes by the name Anna Morena and has...

25 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Love on Wheels: e-bikes to ensure continuity of HIV services to key populations

24 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Survey shows that many people lack multimonth HIV treatment in Latin America

Once the COVID-19 lockdown in her country was put in place, Marisela Mariño (not her real...

24 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS Executive Director sets out HIV/COVID-19 landscape at opening of PCB meeting

The 46th meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board commenced on 23 June 2020....

24 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

Community-led responses in the time of COVID – UNAIDS global survey

24 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

COVID-19 could affect the availability and cost of antiretroviral medicines, but the risks can be mitigated

UNAIDS study shows that the impact on production and logistics caused by COVID-19 could...

22 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS supports call centre for people living with HIV in Rwanda

To respond to the challenges that the lockdown has caused for people living with HIV,...

19 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS helps response to food insecurity during COVID-19 outbreak in Angola

“Angola has a long history of epidemic outbreaks,” said Michel Kouakou, UNAIDS Country...

19 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Local skills and knowledge help Senegalese community-led organizations deliver

Like in many other countries around the world, face masks and other personal protective...

18 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Remembering human rights activist Yves Yomb

Yves Yomb, a human rights activist from Cameroon, died on 15 June 2020. His journey to...

17 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Assessing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic among women and girls living with HIV in Asia and the Pacific

As part of a regional initiative supported by UNAIDS, the International Community of...

16 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Online games fighting HIV stigma and discrimination in the Islamic Republic of Iran

The UNAIDS Country Office for the Islamic Republic of Iran and the country’s branch of...

16 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS highlights six critical actions to put gender equality at the centre of COVID-19 responses

The AIDS response has taught the world the importance of protecting human rights and...

15 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

New online resource for mental health services for key populations in Kazakhstan

The lockdowns and self-isolations imposed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic have affected...

15 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Impact of COVID-19 on mental health and quality of life of young key populations and young people living with HIV in Asia and the Pacific

The Interagency Task Team (IATT) on young key populations (YKPs) in Asia and the Pacific...

12 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

New HIV community group in Guinea fighting COVID-19

Communities have always played an important role in the fight against epidemics in Africa...

12 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Five UNAIDS country directors taking the lead in the COVID-19 response

The experience of the UNAIDS Country Director for El Salvador, Celina Miranda, a trained...

11 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Peer consultants helping the AIDS response in Kyrgyzstan

For the past six years, Ms Toktonalieva has channelled that campaigning zeal into working...

10 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS speaks to REDLACTRANS regional coordinator Marcela Romero about the human rights of the LGBTI population in times of COVID-19

UNAIDS Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, César Núñez spoke with...

8 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

COVID-19 lockdown in Wuhan: Community group delivers HIV medicine

Once COVID-19 broke out in Wuhan, China’s Central Hubei Province, and the city went into...

8 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

New HIV infections differ by sex and by region

In sub-Saharan Africa, where 61% of all new HIV infections occur, women are...

8 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Targeting sex workers is not the answer

When the Government of Cameroon ordered everyone to stay at home as part of the COVID-19...

8 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

The value of integrating HIV prevention and contraceptive services

In 2019, the ECHO trial reminded the world of the very high HIV incidence among women in...

5 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on key populations

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected everyone, including key populations at higher risk of...

4 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS collaborates with private sector in Eswatini to disseminate information on COVID-19

UNAIDS collaborated with the Swaziland Business Coalition on HIV and AIDS (SWABCHA), the...

4 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Lessons learned from HIV for COVID-19 in Senegal

Forty years of responding to the HIV epidemic has provided considerable experience on the...

3 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Mobilizing COVID-19 relief for transgender sex workers in Guyana and Suriname

Twinkle Paule, a transgender activist, migrated from Guyana to the United States of...

2 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS congratulates Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim on being awarded the 2020 Christophe Mérieux Prize

UNAIDS congratulates Quarraisha Abdool Karim, the Associate Scientific Director of the...

2 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

“We cannot provide only HIV services while sex workers are hungry”: Thai community organization steps in

When the Thai government ordered the closure of entertainment venues in the country in...

1 June 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

May

Informal traders in Namibia given a lifeline during COVID-19 pandemic

The restrictions imposed in Namibia in response to COVID-19 meant that thousands of...

29 May 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Caribbean community organizations call for decisive action to end homophobic abuse and cyberbullying

While countries in the Caribbean focus on combatting COVID-19, community organizations...

29 May 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS celebrates the life of pioneer AIDS activist Larry Kramer

The AIDS movement has lost one of its earliest and leading activists, Larry Kramer, who...

28 May 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

“My biggest concern is to get my antiretroviral medicines”: HIV and COVID-19 in Latin America

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Marcela Alcina, of the Latin American and the...

28 May 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Pia Wurtzbach on how she is helping the response to COVID-19

Pia Wurtzbach, Miss Universe 2015 and UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific...

27 May 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

“When people are asked to isolate themselves, we also need to make sure that they have food and medicine”

When non-essential shops and markets were closed in Senegal in response to the COVID-19...

26 May 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

“We are in this together”: Uganda Young Positives respond to COVID-19

Mr Mubiru is the Executive Director of Uganda Young Positives (UYP), a community-based...

25 May 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Modelling the extreme—COVID-19 and AIDS-related deaths

The models looked at potential disruptions in sub-Saharan Africa owing to the COVID-19...

25 May 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

We will not defeat COVID-19 without including Africa in the global response

In much of the global COVID-19 conversation, Africa is barely mentioned. But the risks...

25 May 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS and civil society helping stranded people living with HIV

Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, UNAIDS has helped stranded people to obtain HIV medicine...

22 May 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Lessons from the HIV response against COVID-19

21 May 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Mapping community responses to COVID-19 and HIV in eastern Europe and central Asia

21 May 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS brings together Chinese and African health practitioners to share COVID-19 experiences

21 May 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Communities strengthening the AIDS response in Nepal

From the very beginning, communities were in the vanguard of the AIDS response in Nepal....

21 May 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Kenyan sex workers abandoned and vulnerable during COVID-19

During the more than a decade that Carolyne Njoroge worked as a sex worker, she never saw...

20 May 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Health: providing free health for all, everywhere

As we have seen in wealthier countries, economic and social determinants of ill-health...

20 May 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS welcomes new tool for HIV prevention for gay men and other men who have sex with men and transgender women

Ground-breaking new study shows the efficacy of a long-acting injectable to prevent HIV

19 May 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF