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Government leaders reaffirm their commitment to accelerate HIV prevention efforts to reduce new HIV infections

During the meeting, each country identified commitments that they will drive and will be held accountable for in 2024 as well as technical level actions necessary for programme optimization

With just two years left to attain the 2025 HIV prevention target of fewer than 370 000 new HIV infections annually, the world is not on track. In 2022, 1.3 million people became infected with HIV – the urgency to accelerate progress cannot be overemphasized. The Global HIV Prevention Coalition…

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A call to action to save Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 10: reduce inequalities

H.E. the President of Namibia, Hage Gottfried Geingob, and H.E. the President of Sierra Leone Julius Maada Bio, have expressed their support and willingness to co-sponsor this call to action to Save SDG10 and fight inequality

The Centre for International Cooperation at the University of New York, Development Finance International, Oxfam and UNAIDS are calling for urgent action to save Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 10: Reduced Inequality. COVID-19 caused the largest rise in income inequality in three decades, as poorer countries lacked financing to support the…

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New report from United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) shows that Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) can be ended by 2030 and outlines the path to get there

Progress has been strongest in the countries and regions that have the most financial investments, such as in eastern and southern Africa where new HIV infections have been reduced by 57% since 2010

A new report released today by UNAIDS shows that there is a clear path that ends AIDS. This path will also help prepare for and tackle future pandemics and advance progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The report, ‘The Path that Ends AIDS’, contains data and case studies which…

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Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) receives prestigious award for activism

This year’s event shone a spotlight on work for women by women and highlighted the disproportionate impact HIV is having on women and girls

The Executive Director of UNAIDS Winnie Byanyima has been presented with the prestigious Amsterdam Dinner Award 2023 for her activism and work to end stigma and discrimination around HIV. The annual Amsterdam Diner, initiated in 1992, is the Netherlands largest fundraising event for HIV and has raised millions of euros…

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Brazil hosts the announcement of the Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics

UNAIDS launching group to generate evidence on the inequalities driving pandemics and advocate for the adoption of multisectoral approaches to strengthen the response to AIDS and other pandemics

Brazil is hosting the announcement of the new Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics chaired by The First Lady of Namibia, Monica Geingos, the Director of the University College London Institute for Health Equity, Sir Michael Marmot and the Nobel prize winning economist, Joseph E. Stiglitz. Brazil’s Minister of…

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The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) alerts countries to an unprecedented opportunity to stop new HIV infections, end AIDS and prepare for future pandemics

Hosted by UNAIDS, the event was called to increase political commitment, address policies and laws that drive inequalities and pandemics

UNAIDS urges countries to take full advantage of new opportunities to step up funding, expand new and proven HIV prevention technologies and remove barriers to HIV services. Taking action today will boost progress to end AIDS and respond to current pandemics and pandemics of the future.    On the side-lines of the 76th World…

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African leaders pledge new commitments to end AIDS

Africa has been disproportionately affected by the AIDS pandemic with 67% of people living with HIV living on the African continent

African leaders and partners have joined together at a high-level event on the side-lines of the 36th Session of the African Union to commit to a set of actions to boost progress towards ending AIDS. The event, Health Financing and Sustaining Action to End AIDS and Related Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases, was…

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United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) welcomes Kenya’s High Court judgement in landmark case of involuntary sterilization of women living with HIV

The High Court found that the performance of this operation without consent amounted to a violation of her rights to non-discrimination, to dignity, to health and to family

UNAIDS welcomes the judgement by the High Court of Kenya at Nairobi recognizing that coerced sterilization of women living with HIV is a violation of their human rights.   The judgement follows a case brought forward in 2014 by a Kenyan woman living with HIV who was coerced by professionals at…

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Tanzania commits to invest in secondary education as part of efforts to keep boys and girls free from HIV

The launch of Education Plus in Tanzania will accelerate the ongoing country's adolescent education, health and wellbeing agenda

Tanzania became the 13th African country to join the Education Plus Initiative, committing to provide greater investments to ensure boys and girls complete secondary school.  Education Plus is an initiative spearheaded by UNAIDS to accelerate action and investments in education to prevent HIV. Evidence shows that completing secondary education reduces the risk…

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Criminalisation has hurt sex workers and perpetuated the AIDS pandemic: United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) welcomes South Africa's call to end it

Criminalisation has impeded South African sex workers' access to vital health-care services, including effective HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services

Responding to the decision of South Africa's Cabinet to propose a Bill that will repeal criminalisation of sex work, UNAIDS Country Director Eva Kiwango said: "The evidence is clear: Criminalisation has been proven to have increased the risks faced by South Africa's sex workers, hurt their health and safety, and…