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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`.
Following a meeting with persons living with HIV who are attending a major United Nations meeting on AIDS in New York, Secretary-General Kofi Annan reported their appeal to diplomats not to negotiate away past gains in a declaration to be adopted by the end of the three-day session, which concludes Friday.
Visionary leadership and an unprecedented partnership among Governments, the private sector and civil society were called for to meet the goal of reversing the spread of HIV and AIDS by 2015, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the opening session of the General Assembly's High-Level Meeting on AIDS.
Participants at a major United Nations conference in New York today reviewed the increasing prevalence of HIV/AIDS in women compared to men. Panelists discussed the importance of women's rights being at the center of the AIDS response.
African women including HIV positive women, women's rights activists, feminists, scholars, professionals, community workers and policy makers from the African continent participating in the African Women's Regional Consultation on Women's and Rights and HIV/AIDS in Africa, in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 6-7, 2006 have prepared a declaration/position on women's rights and HIV/AIDS in Africa.
An international conference opened on Sunday in South Africa to discuss a revolutionary technology to curb the spread of HIV and Aids. More than 1,000 scientists will gather in Cape Town over the next four days to study a product known as microbicides. The product, which can take the form of a gel or cream, releases an active ingredient designed to kill HIV during sexual intercourse.
A safe and effective gel allowing women to protect themselves from the AIDS virus may be available by 2010 if current trials involving thousands of women are successful, researchers said Sunday. Gita Ramjee, director of the HIV prevention research unit at South Africa's Medical Research Council, said microbe-killing vaginal gels offered huge potential for stemming the epidemic, especially in societies where men are reluctant to use a condom.
HIV prevention interventions that include information on condoms do not inadvertently encourage an earlier sexual debut, more frequent sexual activity or more sexual partners, according to a meta-analysis of 174 studies published in the March edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
Chinese patients with HIV-Aids will be legally protected from discrimination under a law unveiled yesterday. China, with an estimated 650,000 cases of HIV infection, has taken several steps in the past two years to tackle the virus.
Some 5,000 people involved in the international effort to eliminate HIV/AIDS in Africa are meeting this week in Nigeria's capital to examine such issues as how new intellectual property (IP) policies and trade agreements can help ensure that nearly 26 million HIV-infected Africans have access to life-saving drugs. UNIFEM is also using the opportunity provided by the ICASA conference to launch a new campaign called "Who Cares for the Caregiver?"…
World AIDS day traditionally has become an occasion for reciting statistics of a plague so overwhelming it remains beyond comprehension. Just one example: 3 million die a year--an average of 5.7 every minute of every day. But there was one AIDS day that was different and it was just two years ago.
Message by the World Health Organization Director-General, LEE Jong-wook, for World AIDS Day - December 1, 2005.
The first-ever World Health Organization (WHO) study on domestic violence reveals that intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence in women's lives - much more so than assault or rape by strangers or acquaintances. The study reports on the enormous toll physical and sexual violence by husbands and partners has on the health and well-being of women around the world and the extent to which partner violence is still largely hidden.