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As a week-long meeting of health ministers organised by the African Union (AU) got underway in Johannesburg on Monday, AIDS activists expressed concern that commitments on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, reached at several meetings last year, were missing from the agenda.
A UN-sponsored conference on HIV/AIDS being held in Auckland has called on health ministers and attorney generals in the Pacific to apply the lessons learnt from Africa.
Interventions that target individuals with a high risk of contracting HIV have a negligible impact on HIV transmission in the general population, according to a new study of communities in Zimbabwe, published today.
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced a bipartisan bill to reduce the vulnerability of women and girls to HIV infection in developing countries and eliminate the requirement that thirty-three percent of AIDS prevention funds be spent for abstinence-only programs.
UNAIDS Executive Director, Peter Piot's Statement on International Women's Day stressing the importance of addressing gender inequality and the feminization of the AIDS epidemic.
Africa Action marks International Women's Day with a recognition that the global HIV/AIDS crisis continues to take a disproportionate toll on the world's women, and with a call to U.S. and international policymakers to do more to address the vulnerability of women and girls to HIV/AIDS and other health challenges.
Clinical trials of a new drug designed to help prevent women contracting the Aids virus have been stopped. The World Health Organization said the drug, which uses a microbicidal gel, did not help the women and made them more vulnerable.
A new report from UNICEF says children around the world would be healthier if their mothers had more control over household decisions and finances. "Gender equality and the well-being of children are inextricably linked," said Anne Veneman, UNICEF's executive director. "When women are empowered to lead full and productive lives, children and families prosper
Message on the occasion of World AIDS Day 1 December 2006 by Dr Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS
Women in both the global South and North face not only staggering rates of HIV infection, but also unabating levels of violence, whether at the hands of male partners, police, or community members. While most see these as distinct, women around the world are now calling attention to the ways these experiences can be fundamentally linked.
The One Man Can Action Toolkit is a resource to support South African men to take action to end violence against women in South Africa. The Toolkit includes a resource directory, workshop materials, and information on how to develop healthy relationships and how to support victims of violence. Facts about violence against women in South Africa and action sheets for teachers, fathers, coaches, religious leaders and youth are also included.
Despite some promising trends, the global AIDS epidemic continues to grow, with 2.9 million deaths and 4.3 million new HIV infections in the past year, amid worrying evidence of a resurgence in infection rates in some countries that were previously stable or declining, according to latest United Nations data released today.
The United Nations women's fund chief and UN envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa have heralded a high-level panel's call for the creation of a new gender agency as a major step towards equality.
Health and Sanitation Minister, Abator Thomas, officially launched the Acceleration of HIV prevention initiative at the Miatta Conference Hall, Youyi Building in Freetown. Giving her key note address, Mrs. Abator Thomas started by saluting the National HIV/AIDS Secretariat (NAS) for taking the acceleration of HIV prevention initiative, which, she said, was in accordance with a resolution they adopted during a Minsters of Health summit held in…
The hitherto marginalised groups of people identified as being especially vulnerable to HIV/AIDS discrimination, appear to be gradually pushing their agenda into the National Strategic Framework for HIV/AIDS (2003-2009) in Botswana. The framework was obviously not crafted to include specific needs of these groups that include sex workers, intravenous drugs users, homosexuals, mobile populations, women, youths, and prison inmates. Interestingly,…
A unique match-making event in the western Indian state of Gujarat for HIV positive men and women has ended with three couples deciding to marry. Held in the city of Surat, the event was attended by 45 men and 15 women. The organisers of the event said it was an attempt to end the isolation of those infected by the HIV virus.
A home-based care programme that uses weekly visits and medicines supporters in Uganda has shown some of the highest rates of viral load suppression and medication adherence reported anywhere in the world, according to a report published as an early online article in The Lancet.
US Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) has proposed a bill that would require all HIV programs funded by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to address the rapid spread of infection among women and young people. This legislation, titled the PATHWAY Act of 2006, also removes earmarks in the current law requiring 33 percent of funding to go toward "abstinence-until-marriage" programs. Previously this month, a Government…
A new political declaration on AIDS that strengthens the world's response to the epidemic was presented to member states for adoption. In his remarks at the General Assembly High Level Meeting, Secretary-General Kofi Annan called AIDS "the greatest challenge of our Generation."
Civil society advocates at the UN High Level Meeting on AIDS in New York say that overnight negotiation may have moved the political declaration towards text that is more supportive of universal access to prevention, treatment and care, and which acknowledges the existence of `vulnerable groups`.