Topic: Unaids
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 ...
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 ...
UN taps big names to promote HIV prevention _ Magic Johnson, Jacques Chirac, Chris HughesThe U.N. AIDS agency has tapped some big names — including former basketball star Magic Johnson — to boost global efforts to prevent the spread of HIV. Others ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Funding by rich economies for poor countries fighting HIV/AIDS fell back slightly last year, to 7.6 billion dollars after 7.7 billion dollars in 2008, as a result of the economic recession, a report card issued at the world AIDS forum said on ...
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-billionaire Microsoft ...
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 ...
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Joint HIV prevention postal campaign
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