Outside news
UNAIDS news and HIV/AIDS related announcements that are currently making headlines in the media.
Guest post: Laura Hoemeke on women and health
Laura Hoemeke is Director of Strategic Communications at IntraHealth International, based in Chapel Hill, N.C. This post follows a discussion Monday at Aspen Institute on womens health.
The Aspen Institute?s Ministerial Leadership Initiative panel discussion on Women and Health taught, or maybe reminded me, of three important lessons, among countless others.
First, as Dr. Susan Brems noted, [...]
Regional body adopts programme of joint action on HIV for Commonwealth of Independent States
An estimated 1.5 million adults and children are living with HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. With an adult HIV prevalence of 1.6% in 2007, Ukraine has the largest prevalence in all of Europe. Estonia, Russian Federation and Ukraine all have HIV prevalence that exceeds 1%.
Technical support
UNAIDS is mandated to provide technical support to assist in the implementation of national AIDS programmes. Usually, this technical support is in the form of expertise but also increasingly it involves helping countries to plan ahead and predict what support they are going to need for different aspects of their AIDS responses.
New evidence on violence against women
The figures were shocking. A World Health Organization study of 11 countries found between 15 percent and 71 percent of women, depending on the country, had experienced physical or sexual violence by a husband or partner in their lifetime ? and between 4 percent and 54 percent had experienced it within the previous year. Ethiopian [...]
South Africa committed to achieving universal access
South Africa is transforming its AIDS response. Today, the Deputy President of South Africa HE Mr Kgalema Motlanthe met with Executive Directors of UNAIDS and Global Fund in Johannesburg. He recommitted his government?s commitment to meet their universal access targets.
Global Fund projects that UNAIDS? call for elimination of mother?to-child HIV transmission by 2015 is within reach
A new report by the Global Fund projects that UNAIDS? call for the virtual elimination of mother?to-child transmission by 2015 is within reach. UNAIDS? Executive Director and South Africa?s Health Minister joined the Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for the launch of the Global Fund 2010 Results Report in South Africa which highlights progress made towards these three diseases.
Launch of the Global Fund 2010 Results Report in South Africa
A new report by the Global Fund projects that UNAIDS? call for the virtual elimination of mother?to-child transmission by 2015 is within reach. UNAIDS? Executive Director and South Africa?s Health Minister joined the Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for the launch of the Global Fund 2010 Results Report in South Africa which highlights progress made towards these three diseases.
South Africa: We Must Not Falter in Aids Battle - AllAfrica.com
South Africa: We Must Not Falter in Aids Battle
AllAfrica.com
Johannesburg ? TEN years ago I was in Durban to attend the International AIDS Conference. Many things about that conference I will never forget, ...
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Global Fund: Elimination of HIV transmission from mother to child by 2015 within reach
Virtual elimination of mother to child HIV transmission by 2015 is now within reach if current rates of progress by Global Fund-supported programmes and other efforts are maintained. Malaria may be eliminated as a public health problem within a decade in most countries where it is endemic. Tuberculosis prevalence in many countries is declining and the international target of halving TB prevalence could be met by 2015.
International Women's Day
The theme of this year?s International Women?s Day (IWD) ? which is observed worldwide on 8 March ? is "Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities: Progress for All".