February

How are babies becoming infected with HIV in Africa?

In Africa, where a pregnant woman living with HIV lives has a big influence on whether...

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

Advocacy toolkit for African first ladies launched

An advocacy toolkit to support a campaign by the first ladies of Africa to end childhood...

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

UNAIDS and IAEA forge a powerful partnership against the interlinked diseases of cervical cancer and HIV

UNAIDS and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have joined forces to increase...

7 February 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

UNAIDS is working with partners in China to ensure that HIV services continue during the novel coronavirus outbreak

UNAIDS expresses its deep condolences to the families who have lost loved ones following...

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

HVTN 702 clinical trial of an HIV vaccine stopped

The United States National Institutes of Health has announced that its HVTN 702 clinical...

4 February 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

January

#InSpiteOf campaign reached more than a million people

#InSpiteOf, a social media campaign featuring the right of women living with HIV in...

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

Key population-led organizations delivering health services in Bangkok

Boy Somjai and Jam Chainukul (not their real names) are a young same-sex couple from...

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

Violence faced by key populations

Gains have been made against HIV-related stigma and discrimination, but discriminatory...

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

The Business Alliance to End AIDS by 2030 is announced at the World Economic Forum

The Business Alliance to End AIDS by 2030, a public–private coalition co-hosted by UNAIDS...

23 January 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

Empowering young people living with HIV to become agents of change in Thailand

There are approximately 24 000 young people aged 15–24 years living with HIV in Thailand...

23 January 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Health should not be a privilege for the rich—the right to health belongs to everyone

UNAIDS is calling on governments to ensure that the right to health is realized by all by...

20 January 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

Supporting communities to be involved in the AIDS response in Thailand

The UNAIDS Country Office in Thailand, with a small team of three staff members, is...

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

Cash transfer schemes reduce the chances of adolescent girls and young women contracting HIV

Efforts aimed at redressing gender inequalities and socioeconomic inequities can mitigate...

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

Turning the tide of the HIV epidemic in Thailand

It is a morning like any other at the Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre, a civil...

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

UNAIDS Executive Director urges Uganda to do more domestically

The new Executive Director of UNAIDS, Winnie Byanyima, has visited the country of her...

9 January 2020   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

December

Treating HIV-positive children with speed and skill

This delayed diagnosis and treatment doesn’t have to happen. UNICEF and Uganda’s Ministry...

26 December 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Health kiosks expanding HIV services in Zimbabwe

If you drive through Zimbabwe on a typical Saturday or Sunday, you will see many places...

18 December 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Communities are making the difference in the HIV response

For young women and girls, for marginalised, vulnerable groups of people such as gay men...

18 December 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Young people and men less likely to know their HIV status

It is vital that people living with HIV know their HIV status. If people know they are...

17 December 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS Executive Director outlines her vision to the UNAIDS Board

Winnie Byanyima, speaking at the first meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board...

13 December 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

Sri Lanka eliminates vertical transmission of HIV and syphilis

UNAIDS congratulates Sri Lanka for achieving the elimination of vertical transmission of...

13 December 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

UNAIDS Executive Director's message on Universal Health Coverage Day

On Universal Health Coverage Day, I stand in solidarity with all people who lack access...

12 December 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

UNAIDS Executive Director's message on the occasion of Human Rights Day

Human rights are key to ending AIDS and have been at the heart of every struggle and...

10 December 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

Barriers to PrEP must be removed

PrEP is now being rolled out in sub-Saharan Africa for serodiscordant couples and...

9 December 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Desert AIDS Project delegation visits health-care centre on the sidelines of ICASA

Stepping into the Remera Health Centre in Kigali, the Desert AIDS Project (DAP)...

5 December 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Communities hailed during South Africa’s World AIDS Day commemoration

Communities played a central role in the commemoration of World AIDS Day in South Africa...

5 December 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Commemorating World AIDS Day in Belgium

Gunilla Carlsson, the UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director, Management and Governance,...

5 December 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Ending stigma and discrimination is critical to expanding HIV services in Jamaica

In 2017, a Jamaican actress starred in an educational video about HIV treatment adherence...

4 December 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Remembering the leadership of Charlot Jeudy

Charlot Jeudy, the President of Haiti’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)...

3 December 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS staff member breaks gruelling world record

A UNAIDS staff member has broken the record for Murphs completed over a 24-hour period....

3 December 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

ICASA conference opens in Rwanda with an emphasis on African leadership

The 20th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) opened in Kigali,...

3 December 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Ending AIDS is everyone’s business

As we commemorate World AIDS Day 2019, we are reminded that despite some remarkable...

2 December 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS welcomes the decision by the Northern Territory of Australia to decriminalize sex work

UNAIDS applauds the decision by the parliament of Australia’s Northern Territory to...

2 December 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

HIV treatment numbers continue to rise

For people living with HIV, being on treatment has two advantages: they stay healthy and...

2 December 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UN Cares: putting people first in Jamaica’s HIV response

Erva-Jean Stephens works as a Strategic Information Adviser in the UNAIDS Country Office...

2 December 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

World AIDS Day 2019: Speech by UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima

I am humbled and excited to be with you in Orkney, in the North West Province of South...

1 December 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

World AIDS Day 2019 message from UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima

On World AIDS Day, UNAIDS salutes the achievements of activists and communities in the...

1 December 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

November

UNAIDS employee to attempt world record of Murphs on World AIDS Day

UNAIDS employee Peter Koopmans will attempt to break the world record for the number of...

29 November 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

United Republic of Tanzania lowers age of consent for HIV testing

The United Republic of Tanzania has approved a change to the law that lowers the age of...

29 November 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

HIV positive refugees support one another in Uganda

29 November 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

iwantPrEPnow website founded out of necessity

When Greg Owen started hearing about a medicine taken daily that could keep people from...

28 November 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Speech by UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima at the World AIDS Day 2019 report launch

Community health volunteers, you are my heroes. I am so happy to be here with you today...

26 November 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Ensuring that people and communities have the power to choose, to know, to thrive and to demand is the key to ending AIDS

A new report by UNAIDS, Power to the people, released ahead of World AIDS Day, shows that...

26 November 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

Women are leading the response to HIV in their communities

Women and girls like Ms Atieno are the backbone of care support in their families and...

25 November 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS welcomes the appointment of Ghada Fathi Waly as Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

UNAIDS warmly welcomes the appointment of Ghada Fathi Waly as the Executive Director of...

25 November 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

Community groups delivering medicines in remote Central African Republic

Zemio is a city cut off from the world. In this remote area of south-eastern Central...

21 November 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Jamaica: tackling HIV-related stigma and discrimination

Rachel Allen (not her real name), who lives in Kingston, Jamaica, was coming to terms...

19 November 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Sex workers often not accessing HIV prevention services

Despite the availability of a widening array of effective HIV prevention tools and...

18 November 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Pace of decline in new adult HIV infections remains short of ambition

The co-conveners of the Global HIV Prevention Coalition, UNAIDS and the United Nations...

14 November 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS Executive Director holds first face-to-face meeting with key donors

Ahead of the opening of the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25, the Executive Director of UNAIDS,...

13 November 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |