August

Redefining HIV prevention messages for young people in Latin America

A dozen young people from nine different countries in Latin America came together in July...

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

Fear of the unknown

When her husband came home with a positive HIV test, Jokapeci Tuberi Cati decided that...

12 August 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

The right to disclose your own status

At 17, preparing for her baccalaureate, Francine Nganhale was carefree. She followed her...

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

July

Mapping HIV laws and policies

A new website that enables people to identify national laws and policies related to the...

31 July 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

I’m just a normal teenager living with HIV

Aziwe is 19 years old and lives with her mother, Phatiswa, in an informal settlement...

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

United Nations Economic and Social Council calls for urgent action to scale up the AIDS response

ECOSOC resolution calls for the United Nations General Assembly to convene a high-level...

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

Botswana puts young people at the centre of its AIDS response

While Botswana has made great progress in reducing the number of new HIV infections—down...

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

Empowering women living with HIV in Djibouti to live dignified lives

Zarah Ali (not her real name) remembers how things changed for the better. “In 2014, I...

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

UNAIDS calls on countries to accelerate efforts and close service gaps to end the AIDS epidemic among children and adolescents

A new report released today at the 10th  IAS Conference on HIV Science in Mexico...

22 July 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

UNAIDS calls for greater urgency as global gains slow and countries show mixed results towards 2020 HIV targets

The pace of progress in reducing new HIV infections, increasing access to treatment and...

16 July 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

Kaiser/UNAIDS analysis finds donor governments spent US$8 billion for HIV in 2018, similar to a decade ago

Donor government disbursements to combat HIV in low- and middle-income countries totaled...

16 July 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Pan-African Parliament calls for increased domestic resources for HIV and health in Africa

A communiqué adopted at the High-Level Pan African Summit on HIV and Health Financing has...

15 July 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Indonesia commits to piloting PrEP

Indonesia has decided to pilot pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in four cities with high...

15 July 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Charting progress against discrimination

Laws discriminate in many ways, but the criminalization of people is one of the most...

12 July 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS calls for the immediate release of NGO members arrested in Malawi

UNAIDS regrets unnecessarily involving the authorities in Malawi in its outstanding issue...

11 July 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

Youth networks are saving lives

A study undertaken by Watipa and commissioned by UNAIDS and the PACT as...

10 July 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Pakistan: bringing services closer to communities affected by the HIV outbreak

A newly refurbished paediatric centre is to open in Ratodero, Pakistan, to serve families...

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

“The staff at the clinic are very friendly. I am an old client so they all know me very well”

According to the first ever integrated bio-behavioral surveillance study (IBBSS) 2014,...

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

June

No end to AIDS without respecting human rights

“Sex workers are 13 times more at risk of becoming HIV positive than the general...

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

UNAIDS Board welcomes the UNAIDS Management Action Plan and advances the nomination process for the next UNAIDS Executive Director

Board members also approve UNAIDS 2020-2021 budget and the establishment of an...

28 June 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

Positive movement: safety, trust and services for people who inject drugs

Most people in the capital city of Belarus become infected with HIV from injecting drugs...

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

New modelling research shows partial progress in South Africa’s response to HIV

South Africa is making strong progress in scaling up HIV testing and increasing viral...

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

UNAIDS and UNDP call on 48* countries and territories to remove all HIV-related travel restrictions

New data show that in 2019 around 48* countries and territories still have restrictions...

27 June 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

Deported, denied access, discriminated against because of their HIV status

In 2019, 48 countries and territories impose some form of HIV-related restrictions and...

27 June 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

South Africa: pace really matters

South Africa has reaffirmed its commitment to accelerate the pace of its response to HIV...

27 June 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS and the Global Fund sign new strategic framework to strengthen joint support to countries in ending AIDS

UNAIDS and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) have...

27 June 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

Civil society engagement in universal health coverage

Achieving universal health coverage in a country is an ambitious, but transformative,...

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

Pushing for harm reduction success in Burundi

Getting life-saving harm reduction services to people who use drugs in Burundi was the...

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

A powerful voice for the AIDS response

In September 2018, on the sidelines of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC)...

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

HIV prevention for all at the 2nd European Games 2019 in Minsk

At the 2nd European Games 2019 taking place in Minsk, Belarus, athletes and spectators...

24 June 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Virtual communities power HIV services in China

According to national estimates, an estimated 1.25 million people are living with HIV in...

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

Botswana enters new phase of AIDS response

Botswana has reaffirmed its commitment to end the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat...

20 June 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

China marks International AIDS Candlelight Memorial Day

The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, coordinated by the Global Network of People...

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

Young women more affected by HIV than young men in western and central Africa

In western and central Africa, survey data suggest that HIV prevalence among women aged...

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

UNAIDS continues to support the response to the HIV outbreak in Pakistan

UNAIDS is continuing its support to Pakistan in responding to the outbreak of HIV in...

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

Ukraine: government to fund publicly procured HIV services

Ukraine has announced that it is to allocate $16 million to the country’s AIDS response...

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

UNAIDS welcomes important study results which find no significant difference in HIV risk among three highly effective contraceptive methods

UNAIDS also calls for urgent action to integrate full HIV combination prevention with...

14 June 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

Positive health, education and gender equality outcomes for Myanmar youth

Young people in Myanmar make up more than half of the national population, with 5-14-year...

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

Stepping up for China’s AIDS response

Zhou Kai has worked in the UNAIDS China office for almost 13 years and has been involved...

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

UNAIDS welcomes the decision of the Constitutional Court of Colombia to strike down the section of the criminal code criminalizing HIV transmission

UNAIDS welcomes the decision of the Constitutional Court of Colombia to remove the...

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

Leadership as a process of influence

Accelerating progress towards gender equality and the empowerment of women is fundamental...

11 June 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS welcomes the decision of the High Court of Botswana to repeal laws that criminalize and discriminate against LGBT people

UNAIDS applauds the landmark decision of the High Court of Botswana to declare...

11 June 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

Responding to the HIV outbreak in Larkana

At the end of April, following warnings from a medical practitioner in Ratodero that a...

11 June 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Women who inject drugs more likely to be living with HIV

Drug use is more common among men, with women accounting for just one in three people who...

11 June 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

A bond of intimacy, free from HIV

“I thought I could never be happy again,” said Mei Zi, who is living with HIV and a...

6 June 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Malawi: remember where we have come from to move forward

Dan Namarika, the Principal Secretary for Health in Malawi, graduated from the College of...

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

Young women demand accountability at Women Deliver

It has been 25 years since the groundbreaking International Conference on Population and...

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

Chisinau signs the Paris Declaration

Ruslan Codrenu, the Acting Mayor of Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, signed the Paris...

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

Changing the lives of transgender people in Malawi

Lesbian, Intersex, Transgender and other Extensions (LITE) started out in 2016 as a...

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

Galvanizing global ambition to end the AIDS epidemic after a decade of progress

A new report from the United Nations Secretary-General, Galvanizing global ambition to...

3 June 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF