Community-led responses ‘essential for ending pandemics’ – UNAIDS

Dec 16, 2022, at 05:54 pm

New York: Communities must be empowered and appropriately resourced to lead the fight against HIV/AIDS and other pandemics, UNAIDS, the UN agency dedicated to tackling HIV/AIDS, stressed at an international meeting held in Thailand.

World ‘dangerously unprepared’ for future pandemics unless leaders tackle inequalities, UNAIDS warns

Nov 30, 2021, at 10:26 pm

New York: Unless leaders tackle stark inequalities, the world could face 7.7 million AIDS-related deaths over the next 10 years, the Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) warned on Monday in a new report.

Global HIV toll likely to be far higher owing to COVID-19, warns UNAIDS

Nov 27, 2020, at 03:59 pm

New York: Countries should adopt ambitious new targets to tackle HIV / AIDS to avoid hundreds of thousands of additional infections and deaths linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN said on Thursday.

Healthcare’s a human right, not ‘a privilege for the rich’ UNAIDS argues at Davos

Jan 22, 2020, at 09:52 am

New York/IBNS: The UN agency devoted to ending AIDS as a public health threat is calling on top politicians and governments across the world to ensure the right to quality healthcare is upheld, and not just a privilege to be enjoyed by the wealthy.

More ‘political commitment’ needed urgently for HIV prevention: UNAIDS chief

Jul 25, 2018, at 09:00 am

New York, July 25 (IBNS): As HIV infections continue to rise, UNAIDS — the UN agency leading the global effort to end the public health threat posed by the virus — called on Tuesday for countries to boost prevention measures and continue facilitating access to treatment.

‘Prevention crisis’ is hampering global HIV response, warns head of UNAIDS

Jul 19, 2018, at 08:28 am

New York, July 19 (IBNS): Complacency over HIV and AIDS has created a “prevention crisis” that risks destabilizing efforts to reach the key 2020 target of fewer than 500,000 new HIV infections per year, the head of the UN agency in charge of fighting the pandemic warned on Wednesday.

UNAIDS piloting new mobile platform to better inform HIV patients, improve health care

Mar 10, 2016, at 02:47 pm

New York, Mar 10(Just Earth News/IBNS):Starting this month, a thousand people living with HIV in Côte d’Ivoire will receive additional health information through their mobile phones, the United Nations agency leading the world’s HIV/AIDS response announced on Wednesday.