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Philippines struggles with AIDS

2011-12-03T18:30:17Z

The Philippines is struggling to deal with a worsening HIV-AIDS problem, with far too little money being spent on reversing a steady rise in infection rates, health experts warn.

The government will have to prioritise its funding to concentrate on helping the most at-risk communities as it faces a budget shortfall of up to $370 million over the next five years, health department assistant secretary Eric Tayag said.<...

UN hails AIDS response, says concerned about funding

2011-11-30T13:30:43Z

HIV infections fell and treatment soared following an unprecedented response to the AIDS epidemic over the last decade, the UN said on Wednesday, while sounding the alarm over declining funds.

New infections dropped by more than a quarter between 2001 and 2009 across 33 countries, a report published ahead of World AIDS Day<...

New HIV infections plunging in Asia: UN

2011-11-21T19:30:41Z

New HIV infections are falling in Asia, with India, the country with the biggest population of infected people in the region, reporting a 56 percent plunge from the epidemic's peak, the United Nations said Monday.

"In South and South-east Asia, the estimated 270,000 new ...

AIDS-related deaths slashed by treatment: UN

2011-11-21T14:30:46Z

A significant expansion in access to treatment helped slash the number of AIDS-related deaths in 2010, bringing the number of people living with HIV to a record 34 million, the United Nations said Monday.

"We are on the verge of a significant breakthrough in the AIDS response," said Michel Sidibe, executive director of UNAIDS. "New HIV infections continu...

Africa reports improvement in HIV treatment: UN

2011-11-21T07:30:26Z

Access to HIV treatment has improved greatly in Sub-Saharan Africa, the region which has long been worst hit by the AIDS epidemic, leading to a steady drop in deaths, the United Nations said Monday.

"The most dramatic increases in anti-retroviral therapy coverage have occurred in sub-Saharan Africa, with a 20 percent increase between 2009 and 2010 alone," ...

HIV numbers hit new high as AIDS drugs save lives

2011-11-21T03:30:24Z

LONDON (Reuters) - More people than ever are living with the AIDS virus but this is largely due to better access to drugs that keep HIV patients alive and well for many years, the United Nations AIDS program (UNAIDS) said on Monday.

In its annual report on the pan...

Life-saving AIDS drugs push HIV numbers to new high

2011-11-21T01:31:56Z

In its annual report on the p...

AIDS: New evidence backs circumcision campaign

2011-07-20T14:30:28Z

A campaign to encourage African men to get circumcised to prevent infection by HIV gained a powerful boost Wednesday by three new studies unveiled at the world AIDS forum in Rome.

New cases of HIV among men fell by an astonishing 76 percent after a circumcision programme was launched in a South African township, researchers reported.

Had no circumcisions been carried out, the tally of new infections among th...

Major AIDS forum gets down to work amid surge of good news

2011-07-17T17:30:29Z

A global medical forum on AIDS got down to business on Sunday for four days of debate on powerful new weapons to combat a pandemic that in 30 years has claimed as many lives as a World War.

Held every two years, the meeting is taking place in Rome amid a flurry of startlingly good news from scientific trials, prompting some veterans to talk of a watershed in the AIDS story.

"This conference could well be a turnaround," Elly Katabira, president of the...

Medical breakthroughs set to buoy AIDS council of war

2011-07-15T13:30:33Z

The biggest medical forum on AIDS kicks off on Sunday to a buzz of excitement about potential strategies for curbing a pandemic that has now claimed 30 million lives in its three-decade history.

A four-day conference in Rome will mull dramatic evidence that drugs designed to treat patients with HIV can be used to shield uninfected people from the AIDS virus.

This could be the best news in 15 years, when antiretroviral drugs started to transform the human immunode...

HIV drugs boost prevention hopes

2011-07-13T11:30:30Z

Heterosexuals who take daily AIDS drugs reduce the risk of being infected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by nearly two-thirds, ground-breaking studies said on Wednesday.

Campaigners hailed what they described as a powerful new weapon in the three-decade war against AIDS.

"This is a major scientific breakthrough which reconfirms the essential role that antiretroviral medicine has to play in the AIDS response," Michel Sidibe, executive director of the

U.N. summit sets plan to stop HIV child infections

2011-06-09T17:00:29Z

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - World leaders at a U.N. AIDS summit launched a plan on Thursday to try to eliminate by 2015 most new HIV infections among children, who inherit the condition from already infected mothers.

The campaign was launched as the leaders also agreed on a target of reaching 15 million people with HIV treatment, more than double...

7,000 people a day still catching AIDS: UN

2011-06-03T15:30:15Z

About 7,000 people are being infected with AIDS each day and about half of the 34 million people with HIV do not know they have it, according to a UN report released to mark the disease's 30th anniversary.

The UNAIDS agency said more money, less waste and smarter programs are urgently needed to consolidate gains made in the war on AIDS and HIV.

The report highl...

AIDS at 30: New funds, smarter spending needed - UNAIDS

2011-06-03T01:30:24Z

More money, less waste and smarter programmes are urgently needed to consolidate precious gains in the war on AIDS and HIV, UNAIDS said on ahead of the disease's 30th anniversary.

"The number of people becoming infected and dying is decreasing, but the international resources needed to sustain this progress have declined for the first time in 10 years, despite tremendous unmet needs,"

30 years on, AIDS fight may tilt more to treatment

2011-06-02T23:00:10Z

CHICAGO/GENEVA (Reuters) - After 30 years of AIDS prevention efforts, global leaders may now need to shift their focus to spending more on drugs used to treat the disease as new data show this is also the best way to prevent the virus from spreading.

The Los Angeles, all previously healthy, had fallen ill with pneumonia. Two had died.

They would be the first casualties of a new virus which has now claimed more lives than a world war.

Nearly 30 million people have been killed by acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and more than 33 million others have the virus that causes it.

Clinton, Jackson bring star power to Vienna Life Ball

2011-05-02T14:30:37Z

Janet Jackson, Bill Clinton and Brooke Shields will be the stars at this year's Life Ball, Vienna's colourful AIDS charity event, on May 21, organisers said Monday.

Former US President Clinton, a regular guest, will return for the ball's 19th editi...

In Honor Of World AIDS Day, Elizabeth Pisani's 'Wisdom Of Whores' Is Free

2010-12-03T12:06:48Z

Former UNAIDS epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani's 'The Wisdom of Whores' is available free for a limited time, starting on World AIDS Day

Former UNAIDS epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani's The Wisdom of Whores is available free for a limited time, starting on World AIDS Day.

“A Wor...

Complacency fuels new AIDS surge in West: UN

2010-12-01T02:30:54Z

Complacency among young people is causing a new surge of the AIDS epidemic in the United States and European nations like Britain and Germany, a top UN expert said ahead of World AIDS Day on Wednesday.

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Philippines reports rise in HIV-AIDS infections

2010-11-25T16:30:31Z

The Philippines on Thursday reported a sharp jump in HIV-AIDS cases which runs against a global trend of declining infection rates, with young homosexual men most at risk.

There were 1,305 confirmed new HIV infections in first 10 months of the year, compared with 835 for the whole of 2009, the health ministry said.

Sex between men accounted for nearly 80 percent of all cases this year, and more than half of those infected ...

UNAIDS teams up with Vienna's Life Ball

2010-11-24T16:30:50Z

UNAIDS and the organisers of Vienna's AIDS charity Life Ball announced Wednesday they were teaming up to raise funds and awareness in the fight against the deadly disease.

"This collaboration underscores the importance of building partnerships in the AIDS response and doing so in an innovative way," the UN

Health Highlights: Nov. 24, 2010

2010-11-29T14:35:13Z

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New AIDS cases fall by one fifth in a decade: UN

2010-11-23T10:30:40Z

The number of new cases of HIV/AIDS has dropped by about one-fifth over the past decade but millions of people are still missing out on major progress in prevention and treatment, the UN said on Tuesday.

In 2009, 2.6 million people contracted the HIV virus that causes AIDS, down 19 percent from the 3.1 million recorded in 2001, said UNAIDS, the UN agency spearheading...

UN says AIDS epidemic slows, infections dropping

2010-11-29T14:41:18Z

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U.N. sees global AIDS epidemic starting to turn

2010-11-23T03:00:17Z

LONDON (Reuters) - An estimated 33.3 million people worldwide have the HIV virus that causes AIDS, but the global health community is starting to slow down and even turn the epidemic around, a United Nations report said on Tuesday.

The total number of HIV-infected people in 2009 was down slightly from the previous year's 33.4 millio...

HIV Infection Figures Plunge

2010-11-29T14:48:12Z

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The final battle in the war against HIV and AIDS

2010-11-29T15:48:16Z

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Cell phones latest tool to beat HIV-AIDS in Africa

2010-11-03T09:40:42Z

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The World is a Ghetto: Global Slums - Out of Sight and out of Mind: Deterioration of the Human Condition.

2010-11-02T21:36:50Z

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World failing to meet 2010 HIV/AIDS care target: UN

2010-09-28T10:16:13Z

UN agencies warned on Friday that the world will fail to meet an end-2010 deadline for "universal" access to HIV/AIDS care and treatment, while new crisis-driven funding cuts could unravel any gains.

The World Health Organisation, UNAIDS, and the

Hard hit Africa leads fall in new HIV infections: U.N.

2010-09-17T08:45:08Z

LONDON (Reuters) - African nations whose populations have been devastated by AIDS have made big strides in fighting HIV, with new infections down 25 percent since 2001 in some of the worst hit places, a U.N. report said on Friday.

African countries with the biggest epidemics like Sub-Saharan Africa, the region worst affected by AIDS, is leading a decline in new HIV infections, UNAIDS said Friday, with new infections in the area declining by over a quarter in the last decade.

"The data shows that countries with the largest epidemics in Africa --

Global cash support to fight AIDS is falling: UN

2010-09-02T03:20:22Z

The chief of the UNAIDS agency said Thursday that global contributions to fighting the disease are dropping off for the first time in 15 years amid tough economic times.

"The world economic recession is pushing countries... to enforce austerity," UNAIDS chief Michel Sidibe said in Tokyo, calling on Japan ...

Health watchdogs sound alarm over TB/HIV deaths

2010-07-22T09:16:16Z

Two global health agencies joined forces on Thursday in a campaign aimed at averting 200,000 deaths each year by co-infection from tuberculosis and the AIDS virus.

"Every three minutes a person living with HIV has his or her life cut off prematurely by TB," said Jorge Sampaio, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's special envoy on stopping tuberculosis.

"This is comple...

Vaginal gel could slow spread of HIV

2010-11-02T13:11:02Z

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UN taps big names for HIV prevention panel

2010-07-21T03:30:13Z

UN taps big names to promote HIV prevention _ Magic Johnson, Jacques Chirac, Chris Hughes

The U.N. AIDS agency has tapped some big names — including former basketball star Magic Johnson — to boost global efforts to prevent...

AIDS: Fewer than 10 percent of drug users get help

2010-07-20T12:15:35Z

Fewer than 10 percent of injecting drug users (IDUs) get practical help to prevent them from spreading HIV to others, according to research presented at the world AIDS conference on Tuesday.

Of the roughly 16 million IDUs around the world, some three million have the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), although the tally could be as high as 6.6 million, it said.

By being marginalised and criminalised, this group can become a major vector for spreading HIV through shared use o...

Huge rise in patients on HIV drugs: UN

2010-07-19T11:16:06Z

Anti-HIV drugs reached 1.2 million more people last year, the UN announced Monday at the world AIDS forum, as former US president Bill Clinton defended Barack Obama's funding to fight the disease.

The increase meant that 5.2 million people had access to dr...

Funding crisis darkens mood at AIDS forum

2010-07-18T14:15:27Z

A world forum on AIDS opened in Vienna on Sunday to warnings led by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that the 29-year war against the disease was at threat from funding cuts.

Launching the six-day 18th International AIDS Conference, the UN chief said in a video message that hard-won advances could all be fo...

Money worries, "broken promises" at AIDS conference

2010-07-18T10:16:22Z

VIENNA (Reuters) - The head of the world's largest backer of programs against HIV and AIDS said at a global conference on AIDS on Sunday he feared wealthy donor countries may cut funding in the wake of global recession.

Speaking at the start of an international gathering of some 20,000 AIDS activists, scientists and sufferers in Vienna, Group of Eight (G8) nations, the European Commission and oth...

New global AIDS focus: careful budgets?

2010-07-13T19:30:13Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New AIDS plans released by the United Nations and the U.S. government on Tuesday stress smarter, targeted spending as a way to keep up the fight against the pandemic during a global recession.

Even Bill Gates, the multi-billion...

HIV prevalence falling among youths: UNAIDS

2010-07-13T09:16:15Z

Prevalence of HIV among young people is falling in some of the worst-hit countries around the world amid a change in their sexual behaviour patterns, UNAIDS said Tuesday.

"For the first time... reductions in HIV prevalence among young people have coincided with a change in sexual behaviour patterns among people," said the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS in a report.

"A chang...

Safer sex by Africa's young drives HIV rates down

2010-07-13T08:17:01Z

LONDON (Reuters) - Young people in Africa are leading a "revolution" in HIV prevention and driving down rates of the disease by having safer sex and fewer sexual partners, the United Nations AIDS program said on Tuesday.

The prevalence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS is falling among youn...

U.N. sets out AIDS treatment plan to save 10 million

2010-07-13T06:00:21Z

LONDON (Reuters) - Ten million AIDS deaths could be averted by 2025 and a million new HIV infections prevented every year if countries took a fresh look at how to meet targets for treating the disease, the United Nations AIDS programme said on Tuesday.

The UNAIDS Outlook report called for a simpler approach to tack...

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UN: HIV among young people going down in Africa

2010-07-13T04:30:18Z

UN: Number of young people with HIV in Africa is falling in countries hardest hit by the virus

The number of young people infected with HIV in Africa is falling in 16 of the 25 countries hardest hit by the virus, according to a new report by a U.N. agency.

The number of young people infected with HIV dropped by at least 25 percent in a dozen countries, the...

Safer sex by young in Africa drives HIV rates down

2010-07-13T03:00:07Z

The prevalence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS is falling among yo...

Disease Year In Review 2009

2010-11-02T15:31:59Z

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TARGETED ACTION ON HIV AND TUBERCULOSIS NEEDED TO REACH DRUG USERS

2010-11-02T15:30:28Z

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The future of AIDS in Africa lessons from two scenario projects

2010-11-02T15:11:28Z

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UN forms team to look at impact of discriminatory AIDS laws

2010-06-24T11:16:05Z

The United Nations Development Programme and UNAIDS said Thursday that they have formed a commission to examine the impact of laws around the world that discriminate against people living with HIV.

"Laws that inappropriately criminalise HIV transmission or exposure can discourage people from getting tested for HIV or revealing their HIV...

Hollywood Steps Up for the Gulf and More of This Week's Inspirational Pop Culture Moments

2010-10-27T09:06:32Z

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Eurythmics' Annie Lennox named UNAIDS ambassador

2010-06-02T10:16:42Z

Eurythmics singer-songwriter Annie Lennox has been named Goodwill ambassador by the UN Programme on HIV/AIDS to speak out for women and children affected by the deadly pandemic, the agency said Wednesday.

"How can anyone not be moved by Annie Lennox and her voice?" said UNAIDS<...

UNAIDS calls for lifting of HIV travel bans

2010-03-28T12:15:52Z

UNAIDS, backed by hundreds of parliamentarians, called Sunday for the lifting of travel restrictions on HIV-positive people which are still by imposed by 52 countries.

Complete entry bans on HIV-positive visitors are in place in 11 countries, including Singapore and China, while other restrictions including the refusal of residency rights remain el...

New HIV infections increasing among homosexuals

2010-03-15T22:00:09Z

New HIV infections are increasing among homosexuals, drug users and prostitutes who don't seek help because of laws that criminalize these practices, the head of the U.N. AIDS agency said Monday.

Michel Sidibe, the head of UNAIDS, said "it is unacceptable" that 85 countries still have laws criminalizing same sex relations among adults, including seven that impose the death penalt...

E.Europe in spotlight at Vienna AIDS conference

2010-03-10T10:16:19Z

AIDS 2010, the 18th International AIDS Conference being held in Vienna later this year, will focus on marginalised groups living with the disease, such as injecting drug users in Eastern Europe, organisers said Wednesday.

"AIDS 2010 will be the conference for people without a voice," the head of UNAIDS, Uganda may lose the chance of hosting a major AIDS research institution if it passes an anti-homosexual bill that seeks to significantly curtail gay rights, a UN official said Monday.

United Nations and Ugandan health officials announced that the Geneva-based African AIDS Vaccine Programme (AAVP) will be shif...

World AIDS Day is Today

2010-11-02T14:53:15Z

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AIDS epidemics risk being generalised: UN

2010-04-16T08:47:03Z

The AIDS epidemic in Ukraine, one of Europe's most affected countries, risk becoming generalised as heterosexual contacts become the chief transmission route for the HIV virus, UN and Ukrainian officials warned Monday.

"Heterosexual contact has become the chief transmission path as the number of new cases transmitted through drug cons...

China AIDS sufferers face widespread discrimination: U.N.

2010-04-16T08:51:27Z

BEIJING (Reuters) - People in China living with HIV and AIDS face widespread discrimination and stigma, with even medical workers sometimes refusing to touch them, according to a U.N. survey released on Friday.

UNAIDS report says heterosexual sexual contact main cause for HIV's spread in China

The virus that causes AIDS is now spreading fastest in China through heterosexual sex, a trend demanding new strategies to stave off a rebound in the epidemic after years of progress in containing it, a United Nations report said.

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AIDS deaths top 25 million but infections slow

2010-04-16T08:54:46Z

AIDS has killed 25 million people worldwide but new infections are slowing sharply, the UN said in an annual report on the crisis Tuesday that mixed hope with a warning against complacency.

Almost 60 million people have been infected by the HIV virus since it was first recorded but prevention programmes are having a significant impact, the UNAIDS agency said in its latest report,...

AIDS deaths top 25 mln but infections slow

2010-04-16T08:54:46Z

AIDS has killed 25 million people worldwide but new infections are slowing sharply, the UN said in an annual report on the crisis Tuesday that mixed hope with a warning against complacency.

Almost 60 million people have been infected by the HIV virus since it was first recorded but prevention programmes are having a significant impact, the UNAIDS agency said in its latest report,...

AIDS death toll passes 25 mln: UNAIDS

2010-04-16T08:55:03Z

AIDS has killed 25 million people worldwide but new infections are slowing sharply, the UN said on Tuesday as it issued its annual report that mixed hope with a warning against complacency.

Almost 60 million people have been infected by the HIV virus since it was first recorded but prevention programmes are having a significant impact, the UNAIDS agency said in its latest report...

Over 33 million infected with AIDS virus: U.N.

2010-04-16T08:55:37Z

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - An estimated 33.4 million people worldwide are infected with the AIDS virus, up from 33 million in 2007, but more people are living longer due to the availability of drugs, according to a United Nations report.

However, more than half of the people who need life-saving drugs are not getting...

HIV kills 25 million, infects 60 million: UNAIDS

2010-04-16T08:55:21Z

Almost 60 million people have been infected by HIV and 25 million people killed by causes related to the virus since the epidemic started, according to new data published by UNAIDS on Tuesday.

While prevention programmes have helped to cut infection rates by 17 percent over the past eight years, the total number of people living with HIV continued to rise in 2008.

By the end of 2008, a total of 33.4 million people or 20 percent more...

New HIV infections down 17%: UNAIDS

2010-04-16T08:55:26Z

New HIV infections have fallen by 17 percent over the past eight years, UNAIDS said Tuesday, noting that prevention programmes were having an impact.

"The good news is that we have evidence that the declines we are seeing are due, at least in part, to HIV prevention, said Michel Sidibe, UNAIDS executive director.

UNAIDS said Tuesday, noting that prevention programmes were having an impact.

"The good news is that we have evidence that the declines we are seeing are due, at least in part, to HIV prevention, said Michel Sidibe, UNAIDS executive director.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon hailed US President Barack Obama's removal of a decades-old travel ban on HIV-positive visitors, and urged other countries to do the same.

"I congratulate President Obama on announcing the removal of the travel restrictions for people living with HIV from entering the

HIV preexposure prophylaxis trials socioeconomic and ethical perspectives for subSaharan Africa

2010-10-22T11:41:35Z

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HIV spreading faster than treatment in Africa: UNAIDS

2010-04-16T10:03:53Z

New HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa are growing twice as quickly as anti-retroviral drugs are rolled out, despite a 39 percent hike in treatment access, UNAIDS said Wednesday.

The number of people receiving AIDS treatments in the region, where two-thirds of the world's HIV positive people live -- rose from 2.1 million in 2007 to 2.9 million last year.

Although ...

Tenfold rise in HIV treatment for poor: UN

2010-04-16T10:04:02Z

More than four million people from poor and middle-income countries received HIV/AIDS treatment in 2008, marking a tenfold increase in access to medication over five years, a UN report said Wednesday.

The biggest progress was recorded in sub-Saharan Africa, where two-thirds of all HIV infections occur, said the joint report by the UN says estimated 50 million women in Asia are at risk of HIV infection from their partners

An estimated 50 million women in Asia are at risk of becoming infected with the HIV virus from their husbands or long-term partners, according to a U.N. report published Tuesday.

The report produced by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, known as Asia were infected by their partners and 50 million more are at risk of infection, according to a report released on Tuesday.

The "HIV Transmission in Intimate Partner Relationships in Asia" report by UNAIDS said the women at risk are either married or in long-term relationships with men who engage in "high-risk sexual behaviours."

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Economic crisis hurts HIV fight: World Bank, UN

2010-04-16T11:28:39Z

The economic crisis has disrupted HIV prevention and treatment programmes, including causing shortages of anti-retroviral drugs, a report by UNAIDS and the World Bank said Monday.

"In 22 countries in Africa, the Caribbean, Europe an...

Economic crisis a 'major threat' to AIDS fight in Africa: UN

2010-06-12T11:02:09Z

The global economic crisis poses a "major threat" to the fight against AIDS in Africa as funding for treatment programmes dries up, a top UN official said Thursday.

Michel Sidibe, the head of the UNAIDS agency, told reporters on the sidelines of an African Union summit in

UN AIDS official concerned by economic crisis

2010-04-16T11:51:44Z

The global economic crisis will make it difficult to raise funds to fight AIDS, and scarce funding will have to be used best effect, a senior U.N. AIDS official said Thursday.

Paul DeLay, deputy executive director of UNAIDS, said that, of the $25 billion needed for low and middle income countries to achieve universal access to prevention, care, drugs and counseling by 2010, only ...

UNAIDS chief says pandemic can be chance to change

2010-04-16T15:40:48Z

The HIV/AIDS pandemic, which has already killed an estimated 25 million people since the 1980s, is not only a problem but a social opportunity for change, according to new UNAIDS chief Michel Sibide.

The Malian is the first African to hold the post of the United Nations AIDS czar.

"People shouldn't see the epidemic as only a problem, ...

Donors, health experts meet in AIDS 'epicentre'

2010-04-16T16:07:27Z

International donors and top health experts from southern Africa began a meeting on Wednesday on how to improve and expand the European Commission's efforts in fighting HIV-AIDS crisis in the region.

"The meeting will focus on HIV prevention from mother to child, human resources for health and the mobilisation of regional funding for HIV and AIDS," U.N. agency leading the fight against AIDS says preventive health programs in the Caribbean must be strengthened.

Karen Sealey is the chief of UNAIDS Caribbean. She says prevention needs to improve "to achieve an increase in knowledge about HIV," the virus that causes AIDS.

Sealey made the comments Thursday night in

UNAIDS program appoints new executive director

2010-04-16T14:03:07Z

UNAIDS appoints its deputy executive director to become chief

The United Nations' AIDS program says Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed a new executive director for the group.

The U.N. said Monday that Michel Sidibe will be the next execu...

UN chief names Mali's Michel Sidibe to head UNAIDS

2010-04-16T14:03:11Z

On the occasion of World AIDS Day on Monday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed Michel Sidibe of Mali to head the world body's AIDS-fighting agency, UNAIDS, a spokeswoman said.

Sidibe, 56, will start his new job as executi...

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Nations Mark 20th World AIDS Day, Face Different Challenges

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Global AIDS crisis overblown? Some dare to say so

2010-06-12T03:51:07Z

On World AIDS Day, some experts suggest AIDS is hogging world attention and budgets

As World AIDS Day is marked on Monday, some experts are growing more outspoken in complaining that AIDS is eating up funding at the expense of more pressing health needs.

They argue that the world has entered a post-AIDS era in which the disease's spread has largely been curbed in much of the world,

Go back to basics, says UN ahead of World AIDS Day

2010-06-12T11:18:04Z

The United Nations on Friday urged countries to focus on the roots of the AIDS epidemic and draw on a panoply of tried-and-tested tools to help prevent HIV spreading among groups of people who most at risk.

"There is no single magic bullet for HIV prevention, but we can choose wisely from the known prevention options available so that they can reinforce and complement each other," said Gery Keszler, left, organizer and founder of largest annual AIDS charity gala in Europe known as the Life Ball and Chairman AIDS LIFE shakes hands with Michel Sidibe, right, Executive Director of UNAIDS after signing a basic agreement for the co-operation of UNAIDS and AIDS LIFE for 2011 in

Switzerland South Africa UNAIDS

2010-11-23T08:02:26Z

Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of UNAIDS, arrives to deliver the UNAIDS 2010 Global Report on the global AIDS epidemic at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Nov 23, 2010. In South Africa, th...

China AIDS Day

2010-03-29T13:36:08Z

Chinese tug at a volunteer dressed as a red ribbon for a snap shot during an AIDS awareness event to mark World AIDS Day in Beijing Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009. A group of protesters, who have been infected with AIDS or have relatives who became HIV positive after receiving infected blood disrupted a UNAIDS event, calling for greater support for people l...

China AIDS

2010-03-29T17:18:47Z

Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) speaks as he shows the agency's new report entitled UNAIDS Outlook 2010 during its launch press conference ahead of World AIDS Day on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 in Shanghai, Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of the United Nations Organization UNAIDS, speaks during an informal meeting with the press at the United Nations building in Geneva, Switzerland, 13 March 2009