October

A Dose of Reality: How rich countries and pharmaceutical corporations are breaking their vaccine promises

Developing countries have been hit with an endless tide of inadequate gestures and broken...

21 October 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Strengthening the response of health systems to pandemics in the Commonwealth of Independent States

Representatives of ministries of health of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)...

19 October 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

“Realizing the right to reproductive health and the future starts with sexual education”

“I am 18 years old, and I am already thinking about getting married. In our area, girls...

18 October 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Capitalizing on experiences to improve HIV care for key populations in western Africa

Participants from four countries—Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal—...

18 October 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Upper-middle-income countries pay more for HIV medicines, but price reductions can be achieved

The cost of antiretroviral medicines has a major effect on resource needs for HIV...

18 October 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Community mobilization and digital technologies accelerate the response to HIV and COVID-19 in Gabon

Gabon is one of the partnering countries involved in the Partnerships to Accelerate COVID...

13 October 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Partnering to strengthen community engagement in the HIV and COVID-19 responses in Namibia

In the response to the colliding COVID-19 and HIV pandemics, communities continue to...

12 October 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Helping Haiti build a sustainable HIV response

At the GHESKIO (Groupe Haïtien d'Étude du Sarcome de Kaposi et des Infections...

11 October 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

People living with HIV at higher risk of COVID-19 illness but have lower access to COVID-19 vaccines

An increasing body of evidence indicates that people living with HIV who acquire SARS-CoV...

11 October 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS Board approves 2022–2023 budget and a five-year results and accountability framework

The UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) has approved, at a special session, the...

7 October 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Multicountry People Living with HIV Stigma Index 2.0 study launched in Latin America

The Latin America and Caribbean region has deep and widespread inequalities and includes...

5 October 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Don’t be silent on gender-based violence

transmission, legal illiteracy and insecurity prevent women from asserting their rights...

4 October 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Slow progress on AIDS-related deaths among adolescents

Current inequalities in HIV testing and treatment for children living with HIV and trends...

4 October 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

ArtPositive—art to raise awareness around HIV-related stigma and discrimination

The Gallery Marie de Holmsky, in the heart of Paris, recently hosted the ArtPositive...

1 October 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

September

The first but not the last: Indonesian transgender man fights for recognition

Medan, a city of more than 2.4 million people, is a long way from Indonesia’s capital,...

29 September 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS welcomes President Biden’s intent to nominate John Nkengasong as the new United States Global AIDS Coordinator

UNAIDS warmly welcomes the intent of the President of the United States of America, Joe...

28 September 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Launch of advocacy explainers on western Africa model drug law

Since the West Africa Commission on Drugs launched a groundbreaking model drug law in...

28 September 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Children being left behind

New HIV infections among children declined by more than half (54%) from 2010 to 2020, due...

27 September 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Partnering to get back on track to end AIDS by 2030

UNAIDS, the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the...

24 September 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Community-led initiative helps LGBTI migrants to learn their rights in Ecuador

“My life is now in my hands,” says Erick González, a Venezuelan who has been living in...

21 September 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

New report outlines the impact of United Kingdom aid cut on the global HIV response

A new report released today highlights the impact of the United Kingdom’s decision to cut...

21 September 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Empty promises will not save the world from COVID, campaigners warn ahead of Biden Global Vaccine Summit

On the eve of President Biden’s global COVID summit on the side-lines of the UN General...

21 September 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Inequalities at the heart of uneven progress in the AIDS response

Zimbabwe has been an HIV testing and treatment leader. The southern African country’s...

20 September 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Forty years of campaigning for equal access to life-saving medicines

Previously unseen images from the early 1990s of AIDS activists campaigning for life-...

17 September 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Community-led projects reach vulnerable populations in Latin America and the Caribbean

“We have changed our way of thinking and our attitude towards people living with HIV. In...

15 September 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

More than 140 former heads of state and Nobel laureates call on candidates for German chancellor to waive intellectual property rules for COVID vaccines

More than 140 former heads of state and government and Nobel laureates today called on...

14 September 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Community-based organizations call for scaled up Internet-based HIV prevention services in China

Networks of key populations and community-based organizations in China have called for...

14 September 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Decline in new HIV infections has stalled

While the global roll-out of HIV treatment has saved millions of lives, efforts to...

13 September 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Central African Republic adopts plan to address gender inequality in the AIDS response

Alida Nguimale is a survivor. She has been living with HIV for 21 years in the Central...

8 September 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Global roll-out of HIV treatment has saved millions of lives

The 90–90–90 targets, agreed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2016, called for...

6 September 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Anambra, Nigeria, commits to eliminating vertical transmission of HIV by end of 2022

New HIV infections among children declined by more than half (53%) globally from 2010 to...

6 September 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

August

Key population-led social enterprises awarded UNAIDS Solidarity Fund grants begin implementation

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many community-led organizations working on HIV to shift...

24 August 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

The humanitarian activist supporting Venezuelan migrants living with HIV in Brazil

Nilsa Hernandez, 62, used to work as an informal greengrocer in Venezuela to help...

23 August 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS strongly supports calls for the rejection of draft law targeting LGBTI people in Ghana

UNAIDS fully backs calls made today by an eminent group of United Nations experts that...

12 August 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS welcomes Chile’s recognition of responsibility for violating the rights of a woman living with HIV sterilized without her consent

UNAIDS welcomes the announcement by Chile that it recognizes international responsibility...

11 August 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Defending rights and overcoming fear in Kyrgyzstan

In July 2021, adolescents living with HIV in Kyrgyzstan who were infected in state...

10 August 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

July

We must scale up support for an HIV response led by young people in eastern Europe and central Asia

“We are demanding that you step up and finally do your part,” said Yana Panfilova, a...

27 July 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

2021 ECOSOC resolution on the Joint Programme adopted by consensus

On 22 July, the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) adopted a resolution...

23 July 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS saddened by the death of Cyriaque Yapo Ako

It is with great sadness that I learned on 15 July 2021 of the death of Cyriaque Yapo Ako...

22 July 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Changing the landscape of community engagement in the HIV response in Indonesia

“Communities must be allowed to sit in the driver’s seat and take control of their lives...

22 July 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

New report reveals stark inequalities in access to HIV prevention and treatment services for children—partners call for urgent action

Almost half (46%) of the world’s 1.7 million children living with HIV were not on...

21 July 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    Download PDF

An HIV vaccine: who needs it?

The participants of the International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Science...

21 July 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

2025 AIDS targets: the next generation of goals for the global AIDS response

At a session at the International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Science, the...

21 July 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

KFF/UNAIDS analysis finds that while donor government spending on HIV increased in 2020, future funding is uncertain with COVID-19 challenges

A new report from KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) and the Joint United Nations Programme...

19 July 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

Opening session of the IAS Conference on HIV Science

The International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Science opened on 18 July. The...

19 July 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS report shows that people living with HIV face a double jeopardy, HIV and COVID-19, while key populations and children continue to be left behind in access to HIV services

The UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2021, launched today, highlights evidence that people...

14 July 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS saddened by the death of Geoff Makhubo, Executive Mayor of Johannesburg

Having served in various senior positions in the Johannesburg Council and as the Member...

12 July 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNDP and UNAIDS support more than 300 pregnant and breastfeeding women living with HIV in Abidjan

Like the rest of the world, COVID-19 has hit Côte d’Ivoire hard. As soon as the first...

8 July 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

UNAIDS is shocked and saddened by the assassination of Jovenel Moïse, the President of Haiti

UNAIDS is shocked and saddened by the assassination of Jovenel Moïse, the President of...

8 July 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |    

African first lady technical advisers to align OAFLAD’s strategic plan with the new HIV targets

In a briefing co-hosted by the Organisation of African First Ladies for Development (...

8 July 2021   |   Read more   |   Email this link to me   |