The right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health is a human right. References to the right to health are found in international and regional law, treaties, United Nations declarations, and national laws and constitutions across the globe. The right to health ...

In 2016, 29444 people were diagnosed with HIV in the 31 countries of the EU/EEA, with a rate of 5.9 per 100000 when adjusted for reporting delay (Table  1; Annex  6). Countries with the highest rates of new HIV diagnoses reported in 2016 were Latvia ...

This publication is an update of the 2005 guidelines for measuring national HIV prevalence in populationbased surveys of the UNAIDS/WHO Working Group on Global HIV/AIDS and STI Surveillance. These guidelines are written for public health surveillance and programme officers responsible for monitoring the HIV epidemic ...

Новое сводное руководство по вопросам профилактики, диагностики, лечения и ухода в связи с ВИЧ-инфекцией для ключевых групп населения объединяет все существующие руководящие указания Всемирной организации здравоохранения (ВОЗ), относящиеся к следующим пяти группам населения, которые имеют ключевое значение для действий по борьбе с ВИЧ. Эти группы следующие: ...

WHO guidelines on the use of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs for treating and preventing HIV infection provide a public health approach for scaling up HIV care and treatment programmes and focus on simplified, harmonized and effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimens for use in resource-limited settings. In ...

This paper, intended as a resource for parliamentarians, is the result of long-standing, close collaboration between the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). IPU and UNAIDS hope it will inspire and help parliaments and parliamentarians everywhere take strong political ...

Over the past 15 years, the world has made remarkable strides in halting and reversing the HIV epidemic: annual new infections have declined 35% since 2000 and 15 million people living with HIV (PLHIV) are now on antiretroviral therapy (ART). However, the key populations (KPs) ...

Since the spectrum of engagement in HIV care was first described in the United States, there has been a growing interest in the HIV continuum of care as a means of monitoring delivery of care for people living with HIV and assessing the extent to ...