Upholding human rights is key to ending AIDS by 2030
New York, US (PANA) - Ahead of World AIDS DAy on 1 December, a new report by the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) highlights [...] Full text...
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Upholding human rights is key to ending AIDS by 2030
New York, US (PANA) - Ahead of World AIDS DAy on 1 December, a new report by the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) highlights [...] Full text...
UNAIDS: Rising debt in sub-Saharan Africa costing lives
New York, US (PANA) - A report by UNAIDS has detailed how debt crisis is jeopardising progress aimed at ending AIDS in Sub-Saharan African countries, [...] Full text...
UNAIDS: Rising debt in sub-Saharan Africa costing lives
New York, US (PANA) - A report by UNAIDS has detailed how debt crisis is jeopardising progress aimed at ending AIDS in Sub-Saharan African countries, [...] Full text...
UN agencies urge immediate boost in HIV services to end AIDS by 2030
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An immediate increase in HIV services is needed in the countries most affected by the pandemic to end AIDS by 2030, [...] Full text...
UN agencies urge immediate boost in HIV services to end AIDS by 2030
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An immediate increase in HIV services is needed in the countries most affected by the pandemic to end AIDS by 2030, [...] Full text...
Namibia earns praise for efforts to end mother-to-child transmission of HIV
Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) - Namibia has become the first country in Africa and the first high-burden country in the world to reach a key milestone [...] Full text...
French-speaking healthcare professionals on HIV/AIDS to meet in Cameroon on Tuesday
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Alliance francophone des acteurs de santé contre le VIH et les infections virales chroniques ou émergentes (French-speaking alliance of healthcare [...] Full text...
US to launch Nursing Leadership Initiative across seven African countries
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US will on Monday launch the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Nursing Leadership Initiative across seven African [...] Full text...
US to launch Nursing Leadership Initiative across seven African countries
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US will on Monday launch the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Nursing Leadership Initiative across seven African [...] Full text...
UNAIDS marks 10th anniversary of Zero Discrimination Day
New York, US (PANA) - Progress on advancing equality and fairness for all, regardless of gender, sexuality or HIV status, is in peril, the UN [...] Full text...
UNAIDS marks 10th anniversary of Zero Discrimination Day
New York, US (PANA) - Progress on advancing equality and fairness for all, regardless of gender, sexuality or HIV status, is in peril, the UN [...] Full text...
Libyan Centre for Disease Control assists AIDS patients
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Director-General of the Libyan National Centre for Disease Control, Haider El-Saieh, has praised the role played by the Centre in [...] Full text...
HIV/AIDS prevalence rate below 1% in Burundi
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The national prevalence rate of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has fallen from 6% to 0.9% over the past 15 years [...] Full text...
Despite progress, adolescent girls continue to bear the brunt of the HIV epidemic: UNICEF
New York, US (PANA) – Nearly 98,000 adolescent girls aged 10-19 were infected with HIV in 2022 – or 1,900 new infections every week.
This is according [...] Full text...
Despite progress, adolescent girls continue to bear the brunt of the HIV epidemic: UNICEF
New York, US (PANA) – Nearly 98,000 adolescent girls aged 10-19 were infected with HIV in 2022 – or 1,900 new infections every week.
This is according [...] Full text...
World AIDS Day celebrates communities working to end the disease
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The leadership of communities affected by HIV has been vital in driving progress to end the epidemic, UN World Health Organisation [...] Full text...
World AIDS Day celebrates communities working to end the disease
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The leadership of communities affected by HIV has been vital in driving progress to end the epidemic, UN World Health Organisation [...] Full text...
Support communities that ‘light the way to the end of AIDS’ - UNAIDS
New York, US (PANA) - AIDS can be ended as a public health threat by 2030 but only if governments and donors fully support grasstoots [...] Full text...
Faith leaders find ‘hidden’ children living with HIV (Feature by UN News)
New York, US (PANA) - To find “hidden” children living with HIV around the world, you need to find their mothers. To do so, innovative [...] Full text...
Ending AIDS by 2030 a ‘political and financial choice’
New York, US (PANA) - There is a clear path to ending AIDS by 2030 and it requires strong political leadership, following the science, tackling [...] Full text...
'Repealing laws targeting people living with HIV/AIDS saves lives'
New York, US (PANA) - Repealing discriminatory laws against people living with HIV/AIDS saves lives and helps advance the end of the pandemic, the chief [...] Full text...
'Repealing laws targeting people living with HIV/AIDS saves lives'
New York, US (PANA) - Repealing discriminatory laws against people living with HIV/AIDS saves lives and helps advance the end of the pandemic, the chief [...] Full text...
African leaders commit to end AIDS among children by 2030
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - UN agencies have welcomed a pledge by 12 African countries to end AIDS in children by 2030,
This was announced [...] Full text...
US provides $100 billion to save more than 25 million lives in AIDS relief programme
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - As the US marks the 20th anniversary of the creation of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), [...] Full text...
Burundi says it has shown the way in fight against HIV/AIDS
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi's health ministry said on Thursday the country is showing the way in West and Central Africa in the fight against [...] Full text...
Burundi says it has shown the way in fight against HIV/AIDS
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi's health ministry said on Thursday the country is showing the way in West and Central Africa in the fight against [...] Full text...
Libya marks World AIDS Day
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Activities marking World AIDS Day, commemorated on 1 December each year, were organised on Thursday at the Equestrian Square in Abu [...] Full text...
Libya marks World AIDS Day
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Activities marking World AIDS Day, commemorated on 1 December each year, were organised on Thursday at the Equestrian Square in Abu [...] Full text...
Proven solutions must be put in place to end AIDS by 2030: Guterres
New York, US (PANA) - The UN chief is marking World AIDS Day on Thursday with a call to action to end the inequalities which are blocking [...] Full text...
Gender inequalities hampering global efforts to end AIDS
New York, US (PANA) - Inequalities will prevent the world from meeting agreed global targets on AIDS, but a “feminist route map” can get countries [...] Full text...
Three years of flatlined progress on HIV treatment and prevention affect 2.7 million youth
New York, US (PANA) - Some 110,00 youth under age 19 died last year from AIDS-related causes, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said, noting [...] Full text...
Libya holds workshop on 2023-28 National AIDS Strategy
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A workshop on the National AIDS Strategy (2023-2028) has been held in Tripoli, aimed at defining the objectives to be achieved [...] Full text...
New global alliance launched to end AIDS in children by 2030
New York, US (PANA) - While more than three-quarters of all adults living with HIV are receiving some kind of treatment, the number of children [...] Full text...
WHO supports new long-acting prevention HIV drug cabotegravir
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN health agency on Thursday recommended the use of a new long-acting “safe and highly effective” prevention option for people [...] Full text...
UNAIDS calls for urgent global action as progress against HIV falters
New York, US (PANA) - New UN data released on Wednesday showed that the decline in new HIV infections which can lead to full-blown AIDS [...] Full text...
UNAIDS calls for urgent global action as progress against HIV falters
New York, US (PANA) - New UN data released on Wednesday showed that the decline in new HIV infections which can lead to full-blown AIDS [...] Full text...
World must ‘speed up’ efforts to end AIDS pandemic by 2030
New York, US (PANA) - To end AIDS, beat COVID-19 and “stop the pandemics of the future”, the world needs to ensure global access to [...] Full text...
World must ‘speed up’ efforts to end AIDS pandemic by 2030
New York, US (PANA) - To end AIDS, beat COVID-19 and “stop the pandemics of the future”, the world needs to ensure global access to [...] Full text...
Gamechanger HIV injection rolls out in South Africa and Brazil
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The first injection to offer long-lasting protection against HIV is being rolled out in South Africa and Brazil, as an alternative [...] Full text...
Fast-spreading HIV variant doubles rate of immune system decline
Amsterdam, The Netherlands (PANA) - Newly published research from the Netherlands has revealed the existence of a more transmissible and damaging variant of HIV, the [...] Full text...
Fast-spreading HIV variant doubles rate of immune system decline
Amsterdam, The Netherlands (PANA) - Newly published research from the Netherlands has revealed the existence of a more transmissible and damaging variant of HIV, the [...] Full text...
Low access to anti-retroviral drugs for AIDS patients in Guinea
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Out of the 110,000 people living with HIV/AIDS in Guinea, only 48,000 have access to anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs), Kadiatou Bodié Baldé, [...] Full text...
16 per cent of PLHIV in Senegal do not know their HIV status, CNLS
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Sixteen per cent of people living with HIV/AIDS in Senegal do not know their HIV status, the executive secretary of the [...] Full text...
16 per cent of PLHIV in Senegal do not know their HIV status, CNLS
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Sixteen per cent of people living with HIV/AIDS in Senegal do not know their HIV status, the executive secretary of the [...] Full text...
Mauritius commemorates World Aids Day
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius commemorated on Wednesday World Aids Day with testing and counselling through a mobile caravan that would travel around the country [...] Full text...
Battle to end HIV, COVID, demands greater international solidarity
New York, UA (PANA) - The early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic were “plagued by confusion, fear, isolation, and discrimination” against those infected or at [...] Full text...
Battle to end HIV, COVID, demands greater international solidarity
New York, UA (PANA) - The early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic were “plagued by confusion, fear, isolation, and discrimination” against those infected or at [...] Full text...
World ‘dangerously unprepared’ for future pandemics unless leaders tackle inequalities, UNAIDS warns
New York, US (PANA) - Unless leaders tackle stark inequalities, the world could face 7.7 million AIDS-related deaths over the next 10 years, the Joint [...] Full text...
World ‘dangerously unprepared’ for future pandemics unless leaders tackle inequalities, UNAIDS warns
New York, US (PANA) - Unless leaders tackle stark inequalities, the world could face 7.7 million AIDS-related deaths over the next 10 years, the Joint [...] Full text...