May

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

The high possible cost of COVID-19 on new HIV infections among children

New modelling has shown that the COVID-19 pandemic could have a major impact on new HIV...

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

World leaders unite in call for a people’s vaccine against COVID-19

More than 140 world leaders, experts and elders have made an unprecedented call for...

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

Gender-based violence and COVID-19—“When we are silent, we allow these crimes to multiply”

UN Women estimates that globally in the past 12 months 243 million women and girls aged...

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

UNAIDS negotiates support for frontline GBV counsellors during COVID-19 response

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

UNAIDS urges governments to ensure that HIV service providers from community-led organizations are recognized as essential service providers in the context of COVID-19

A cornerstone of the response to HIV, community-led health service delivery has become...

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

COVID-19 community support for Trinidadians on the margins

Delores Robinson’s days are usually busy. She heads GROOTS Trinidad and Tobago, a civil...

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

New videos highlight LGBTI issues in Brazil

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

An online tool helps report human rights violations during COVID-19 in Thailand

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

UNAIDS calls on governments to stop arbitrary and discriminatory arrests of LGBTI people and to protect their human rights

Ahead of the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT), on...

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

Let transgender people be in the picture

A few days after the lockdown measures in India went into effect, the Humsafar Trust’s...

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

Russian regional AIDS centres leading the fight against COVID-19

The network of the Russian Federation’s more than 100 AIDS prevention and control centres...

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

Uniting behind a people’s vaccine against COVID-19

We are calling on Health Ministers at the World Health Assembly to rally behind a people’...

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

COVID-19 in prisons—a ticking time bomb

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

UNODC, WHO, UNAIDS and OHCHR joint statement on COVID-19 in prisons and other closed settings*

We, the leaders of global health, human rights and development institutions, come...

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

COVID-19 in prisons—a ticking time bomb

With more than 11 million people in custody worldwide, and 30 million people entering and...

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

“We are human, so of course it was scary”

Like many health-care workers, Malika has been caught up in the fight against COVID-19....

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

Sex workers in Bangladesh: building resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic

Shahnaz Khatun (not her real name), a former sex worker now running a small clothing...

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

People with disabilities often left behind by HIV responses

Worldwide, there are 1 billion people living with a disability. The majority live in low...

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

United Nations agencies coordinate their COVID-19 response in South Africa

United Nations entities in South Africa, including UNAIDS, are working closely together...

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

Dealing with COVID-19 in Cameroon

Savina Ammassari has been the UNAIDS Country Director for Cameroon since 2018. Before...

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

The cost of inaction: COVID-19-related service disruptions could cause hundreds of thousands of extra deaths from HIV

A modelling group convened by the World Health Organization and UNAIDS has estimated that...

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

HIV testing and support for homeless people in Belarus

Homeless people have difficulty accessing health-care services at the best of times, but...

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

UNAIDS ensures continuity of HIV treatment for people living with HIV in Botswana

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

UNAIDS calls on Hungary to respect the rights of transgender people

Both international and European human rights bodies have affirmed the right of people to...

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

Combatting COVID-19 discrimination in Jamaica

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

Combatting COVID-19 discrimination in Jamaica

Some Jamaicans have responded to the COVID-19 outbreak in extreme ways. Family members of...

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

Supporting sex workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand

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

United Nations in South Africa launches US$ 136 million COVID-19 flash appeal

The United Nations agencies in South Africa have launched a joint flash appeal to support...

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

UNAIDS urges countries to stay focused on HIV prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic

Overstretched health systems, lockdowns, loss of livelihoods and fewer employment...

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

New platform for a coordinated response against COVID-19 launched in Central African Republic

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

Mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among people living with HIV in India

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

Mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among people living with HIV in India

For the more than 3000 people, including 330 children and adolescents, living with HIV...

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

UNAIDS donates protective equipment to volunteers in Panama

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

We must act together to beat COVID-19 in Africa

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

UNAIDS donates N-95 masks for frontline health workers in China

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

HIV-related discrimination still widespread

Discriminatory attitudes towards people living with HIV remain extremely high in far too...

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

Behind the Front Lines: human faces of the #COVID19 response

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

We must act together to beat COVID-19 in Africa

The COVID-19 outbreak has been placing unprecedented strains on sophisticated health...

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

Paying tribute to care workers during an online Labour Day event

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

Paying tribute to care workers during an online Labour Day event

On 1 May 2020, the UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima joined Oxfam Denmark to pay...

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

Safer sex in the time of COVID-19

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

“The concern did not just come from the community, but also the health workers”

After the 2018 earthquake struck Lombok, in West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, the...

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

A tribute to Charles Domingo Noubissi

“Le baobab est tombé.” “The baobab has fallen,” was Francine Nganhale’s post against a...

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

April

Ensuring continuity of HIV combination prevention for people who use drugs in Algeria

30 April 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |