Topic: Unaids
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 UN Children's Fund UNICEF ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This could be a turning point in the battle against HIV, particularly in Africa where 60 per cent of new infections are in women. It was organised by the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), run by ...
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 on ...
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 ...
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 drugs ...
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 ...
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