March

Nigeria adapts strategy to end the AIDS epidemic

Nigeria has adopted its Revised National HIV and AIDS Strategic Framework 2019–2021 to...

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

People who use drugs: still being left behind

While the incidence of HIV infection globally for all ages declined by 22% between 2011...

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

"The community is not on the girls’ side"

Rise clubs are helping adolescent girls and young women start conversations about HIV and...

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

Stepping it up for adolescent girls

“Without our voice, you are doing it for you, not for us”, said Winny Obure, a youth...

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

Landmark international guidelines launched on human rights and drug policy

A coalition of United Nations Member States, United Nations entities and leading human...

15 March 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

New survey results indicate that Nigeria has an HIV prevalence of 1.4%

Expanded data collection and analysis provides better understanding of HIV epidemic in...

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

Promises to improve health outcomes for people who inject drugs remain unfulfilled as 99% do not have adequate access to harm reduction services

A report released today by UNAIDS shows that despite a decline in new HIV infections...

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

International Women’s Day in Ethiopia

The UNAIDS Executive Director, Michel Sidibé, celebrated International Women’s Day in...

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

HIV prevention: not hitting the mark

The number of new HIV infections globally continues to fall. Modelled estimates show that...

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

There is life after HIV, there is love

Mandisa Dukashe was nervous before she took an HIV test in 2002. As a nursing student in...

8 March 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Africa — Achieving health coverage without compromising on quality

Momentum for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Africa is building and many African...

8 March 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

People living with HIV face major challenges in Zimbabwe

According to a recent emergency appeal from the United Nations, around 5.3 million people...

8 March 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

On International Women’s Day, UNAIDS calls for greater action to protect young women and adolescent girls

Every day, 460 adolescent girls become infected with HIV and every week 350 adolescent...

8 March 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

Turning words into action for gender equality

The second annual Global Health 50/50 report was launched on 7 March in Addis Ababa,...

7 March 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS welcomes large-scale HIV prevention trial results showing a 30% decline in the rate of new HIV infections

SEATTLE/GENEVA, 6 March 2019—UNAIDS welcomes the results from the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial...

6 March 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

UNAIDS is greatly encouraged by news of a possible cure of an HIV-positive man

SEATTLE/GENEVA, 5 March 2019—UNAIDS is greatly encouraged by the news that an HIV-...

5 March 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

Not there yet on viral suppression

For people living with HIV to remain healthy and to prevent transmission, the HIV within...

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

UNAIDS urges action to change discriminatory laws in order to restore dignity and respect and save lives

On Zero Discrimination Day, UNAIDS calls on countries to examine discriminatory...

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

How discriminatory Caribbean laws are being challenged in the courts

On the night of 6 February 2009 in Georgetown, Guyana, seven transgender women were...

1 March 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Message from the UNAIDS Executive Director on Zero Discrimination Day

My call this year is focused on changing discriminatory laws and practices that block...

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

February

They don’t judge, so why should I?

“I am lucky,” Charles Somé said. The hyperactive human rights advocacy worker from...

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

Young people to campaign against stigma and discrimination in Egypt

Ahead of Zero Discrimination Day, young people came together in Cairo, Egypt, to learn...

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

Health and safety: sex workers reaching out to sex workers

Leaving the meeting of the REVS Plus nongovernmental organization, the women bid each...

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

Young people change the narrative on HIV in South Africa

Colour my HIV is an HIV prevention and empowerment campaign led by and focused on young...

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

State of Gujarat establishes Transgender Welfare Board

In a landmark ruling in April 2014, India’s Supreme Court introduced recognition of a...

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

The disproportionate impact of HIV on women in western and central Africa

Women are disproportionality affected by HIV, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. However...

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

Stigma makes HIV life-threatening

“If I am meant to be a leader, I needed to be truthful,” said Lloyd Russell-Moyle,...

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

Faith-based organizations: essential partners in the AIDS response for migrants

Faith-based organizations have been delivering HIV services in the countries most...

22 February 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Tanzanian and South African experts exchange expertise

A Tanzanian delegation touring South Africa has stressed the role of political leadership...

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

HIV testing campaign brings the community together in Bangui

The PK5 neighbourhood of Bangui, Central African Republic, is home to much of the city’s...

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

We need action on human rights

“The HIV epidemic is a human rights epidemic. An epidemic of human rights loss, denial,...

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

Healthy populations for healthy economies in Africa

Healthy populations are critical for Africa’s long-term economic growth, increasing...

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

Ethiopia demonstrates that communities deliver

The Community, Health Education and Knowledge Building (CHECK) project in Ethiopia is a...

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

OAFLA to broaden its scope of work

The Organisation of African First Ladies against HIV/AIDS (OAFLA) has announced that it...

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

Taking action against HIV medicine stock-outs in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Over the past two years, UNAIDS has coordinated with the Venezuelan Ministry of Health,...

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

UNAIDS welcomes Shannon Hader as new Deputy Executive Director of Programme

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Shannon Hader as the new...

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

UNAIDS is awarded the Science and Medicine Award at the 25th Annual Steve Chase Awards

The Desert AIDS Project has awarded its prestigious Science and Medicine Award to UNAIDS...

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

AIDS care in the Californian desert

Palm Springs, in the southern Californian desert in the United States of America, is well...

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

African Union recognizes Executive Director of UNAIDS for his outstanding achievements in tackling AIDS

The African Union has passed a motion of support for the Executive Director of UNAIDS...

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

Global Fund presents its Sixth Investment Case in New Delhi

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) presented its Sixth...

8 February 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

United Kingdom pledges to end HIV transmission in the country within 10 years

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has announced that it will end...

7 February 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS welcomes pledge by the President of the United States of America to stop HIV transmission in the country by 2030

UNAIDS welcomes the pledge by the President of the United States of America to stop HIV...

6 February 2019   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

Reducing harm for women who inject drugs in Myanmar

In the mining town in northern Myanmar where Hla Hla (not her real name) lives, drugs are...

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

It’s time to make cervical cancer history

Cervical cancer is preventable with the human papillomavirus vaccine. And if detected and...

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

January

UNAIDS welcomes the call by Pope Francis not to discriminate

During a visit to the Good Samaritan Foundation and Home for people living with HIV in...

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

With UNAIDS’ support, everyone counts

For five weeks in 2018, teams of up to 10 people in each of 120 clinics and hospitals...

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

Shelter founder reflects on 15 years of combining HIV treatment, care and prevention with faith

Named for the Biblical parable of the Good Samaritan, this shelter on the outskirts...

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

She Conquers in South Africa

When she was four years old, Selokela Molamodi’s teacher asked the class what they wanted...

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

Oral fluid HIV testing for gay men and other men who have sex with men in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Most people assume that testing involves taking a blood sample. But oral fluid testing...

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

UNAIDS, UNICEF and WHO urge countries in western and central Africa to step up the pace in the response to HIV for children and adolescents

At a high-level meeting in Dakar, Senegal, UNAIDS, the United Nations Children’s Fund (...

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