The head of the UN agency focusing on AIDS says he'll leave his post in June, an early departure announced a week after independent experts looking into sexual harassment at UNAIDS blasted its "defective leadership."
Ministers of health and senior policy-makers from 10 countries in eastern Europe and central Asia reaffirmed their political commitment to scale up national HIV responses during a ministerial policy dialogue on HIV, which was held on the eve of the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam, ...
In 2016, Member States agreed a set of targets at the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS to be met to put the world on course to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030.
Everyone will have experienced stigma and discrimination of some kind during their lives; however, non-discrimination is a human right. As part of UNAIDS work to achieve Zero Discrimination, UNAIDS encourages people to speak up and prevent discrimination from standing in the way of achieving ambitions, ...
In order to strengthen the UNAIDS capacity to effectively support member states, civil society and other partners worldwide, the UNAIDS Human Rights and Gender team invites eligible and interested experts and legal professionals with demonstrated experience in human rights programming, health and HIV, to submit ...
No disease has the same level of timely and accurate data collection, analysis and distribution as HIV. With credible and up-to-date data, countries and the international community can plan effective AIDS responses. They can focus services on the locations and populations that most need them, ...
The #YouAreNotAlone campaign is raising awareness about the stigma and discrimination faced by children, adolescents and families affected by HIV in eastern Europe and central Asia.
The T-shirt chimes with the theme of this World AIDS Day campaign, #myrighttohealth. Everyone, regardless of who they are or where they live, has a right to health.
Project SOAR and GNP+, ICW, UNAIDS, USAID, and several experts within and external to SOAR, have updated the People Living with HIV Stigma Index in an iterative process. The updated tool was pilot tested in three countries—Cameroon, Senegal, and Uganda. Presenters will discuss the Index, ...
Global HIV Prevention Coalition holds first meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, to find ways to strengthen and sustain political commitment for HIV prevention
As part of global efforts to end AIDS as a public health threat, UNAIDS, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and partners have launched ...
The World Heath Organization and UNAIDS have announced approval of a revolutionary pricing agreement that will facilitate access to the first affordable and all-purpose single-pill HIV regimen including Dolutegravir (DTG) for the public sector in low and middle-income countries. Its price will be around 75 ...
Igor Kilchevsky is an iconic figure in the PLWH community. His biography is a living illustration of HIV history and establishment of the civil society in Moldova. He went from being an activist who created a small non-governmental organization to being the leader of the ...
A breakthrough pricing agreement has been announced which will accelerate the availability of the first affordable, generic, single-pill HIV treatment regimen containing dolutegravir (DTG) to public sector purchasers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) at around US$75 per person, per year.
The agreement is expected to ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS have released a joint statement on HIV testing services that reinforces two key principles that ensure a human rights-based and public health approach to HIV testing.
The statement says that HIV testing, no matter how it is delivered, must always respect ...