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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 the critical role of human rights in ending the AIDS pandemic as a public health threat by 2030.Titled “Take the rights path to end AIDS,” [...]
©- - 27 november 2024 - 06:05:33 - thread Health (409 words)


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, which account for a significant majority of people living with HIV globally – 25.9 million people of the nearly 40 million total.If debt payments and [...]
©- - 20 september 2024 - 06:05:03 - thread Health (643 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An immediate increase in HIV services is needed in the countries most affected by the pandemic to end AIDS by 2030, according to a new report by the Global Alliance for Ending AIDS in Children by 2030, released on Monday. The Global Alliance was launched by the [...]
©- - 23 july 2024 - 06:39:23 - thread Health (575 words)


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 professionals working to combat HIV and chronic or emerging viral infections - (AFRAVIH) is holding its 12th conference in Yaoundé, Cameroon, from 16 to 19 [...]
©- - 15 april 2024 - 11:19:07 - thread Health (264 words)


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 contries to sustain gains and accelerate progress toward ending HIV/AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. Ambassador Dr. John Nkengasong – U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator [...]
©- - 25 march 2024 - 07:52:22 - thread Health (277 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Progress on advancing equality and fairness for all, regardless of gender, sexuality or HIV status, is in peril, the UN agency dedicated to ending AIDS by 2030 said on Friday, marking Zero Discrimination Day.  The day of activism was established by UNAIDS a decade ago.  But, despite [...]
©- - 02 march 2024 - 05:56:17 - thread Health (333 words)


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 supplying medicines and facilitating administrative procedures for people infected with HIV/AIDS. This was made in a speech during Saturday's celebration of World AIDS Day in Tripoli. The [...]
©- - 03 december 2023 - 15:23:06 - thread Health (230 words)


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 in Burundi, said the minister of Public Health, Ms. Lidwine Baradahana, on Friday, to mark International AIDS Day. The theme for the 2023 edition of the [...]
©- - 01 december 2023 - 16:28:41 - thread Health (275 words)


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 to UNICEF’s latest Global Snapshot on Children with HIV and AIDS released as World AIDS Day is marked on Friday.  While total infections among girls aged 10-19 [...]
©- - 01 december 2023 - 10:41:56 - thread Health (500 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The leadership of communities affected by HIV has been vital in driving progress to end the epidemic, UN World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday, the eve of World AIDS Day, observed annually on 1 December.  This year’s commemoration pays tribute to the people and organisations that have [...]
©- - 01 december 2023 - 06:58:02 - thread Health (570 words)


New York, US (PANA) - AIDS can be ended as a public health threat by 2030 but only if governments and donors fully support grasstoots communities on the frontlines of the disease.  That’s the message from UNAIDS in a report released ahead of World AIDS Day on 1 December, which shows how communities have [...]
©- - 28 november 2023 - 20:07:38 - thread Health (241 words)


New York, US (PANA) - To find “hidden” children living with HIV around the world, you need to find their mothers. To do so, innovative projects in Africa are entering places of worship and finding thousands who are now receiving life-saving treatment. Every hour, 11 children die of AIDS, so finding [...]
©- - 06 august 2023 - 07:22:20 - thread Health (1025 words)


New York, US (PANA)  - There is a clear path to ending AIDS by 2030 and it requires strong political leadership, following the science, tackling inequalities and ensuring sustainable funding. That’s the message from UNAIDS, the UN agency dedicated to ending the epidemic, which said on Thursday that truly eradicating it [...]
©- - 13 july 2023 - 16:35:05 - thread Health (570 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Fully financing the HIV response in Africa will produce substantial health, social and economic gains for the continent, a new report backed by the UN agency devoted to ending AIDS (UNAIDS) has revealed. The report, based on research by the Economist Impact partnership across 13 African [...]
©- - 13 april 2023 - 09:03:09 - thread Health (471 words)


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 of UNAIDS has said, marking Zero Discrimination Day on Wednesday. “The only reason people are still dying of AIDS is the inequalities in society, and all [...]
©- - 01 march 2023 - 05:42:53 - thread Health (516 words)


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 on Wednesday at the first ministerial meeting of the Global Alliance to end AIDS in Children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.  It marked a step up in [...]
©- - 02 february 2023 - 05:17:42 - thread Health (653 words)


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), Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the country has provided more than $100 billion to save more than 25 million lives and contributed to the resilient [...]
©- - 29 january 2023 - 08:02:28 - thread Health (430 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius on Friday opened its first  community sexual health clinic in a bid to provide a panoply of services to further support  individuals suffering from Human Immuno Deficiency  Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immuno Deficiency  Syndrome (AIDS). Speaking at the ceremony, the Minister of Health and Wellness, Mr Kailesh Jagutpal, said the Banian Centre will provide doctors, [...]
©- - 03 december 2022 - 06:29:41 - thread Health (308 words)


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 HIV/AIDS. Providing statistics to back its position on World AIDS Day on Thursday, it said 90% of people living with HIV/AIDS in the country had known [...]
©- - 01 december 2022 - 13:55:58 - thread Health (294 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Activities marking World AIDS Day, commemorated on 1 December each year, were organised on Thursday at the Equestrian Square in Abu Setta, on the Tripoli Corniche, aimed at raising public awareness about this disease, its symptoms and transmission processes. Organised under the theme: "Equality", the day is [...]
©- - 01 december 2022 - 12:43:17 - thread Health (271 words)


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 progress towards stopping the pandemic, and eradicating the virus. “The world has promised to end AIDS by 2030,” said Secretary-General  António Guterres in his official message, [...]
©- - 01 december 2022 - 05:04:30 - thread Health (642 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Inequalities will prevent the world from meeting agreed global targets on AIDS, but a “feminist route map” can get countries back on track, the UN agency leading the fight against the disease said in a report published on Tuesday. The study shows how gender inequalities and harmful [...]
©- - 30 november 2022 - 05:28:53 - thread Health (587 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius will introduce shortly the HIV and AIDS (Amendment) Bill to the National Assembly to broaden the scope of HIV testing nationwide and allow for a greater number of persons to know their HIV status, the Government Information Service (GIS) said here Friday. The objective is to [...]
©- - 26 november 2022 - 07:55:34 - thread Health (168 words)


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 in the implementation of the plan. It was organised by the Department of AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases of the National Centre for Disease Control, in [...]
©- - 12 november 2022 - 16:22:41 - thread Health (217 words)


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 doing so, stands at only 52 per cent. In response to this startling disparity, UN agencies UNAIDS, UNICEF, WHO, and others, have formed a global alliance [...]
©- - 02 august 2022 - 05:29:36 - thread Health (458 words)


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 has slowed. Globally, the number of new infections dropped by only 3.6 per cent between 2020 and 2021, the smallest annual decline in new HIV infections [...]
©- - 28 july 2022 - 05:14:54 - thread Health (558 words)


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 lifesaving health technologies, the UN Chef de Cabinet, Courtenay Rattray, has told a meeting of the General Assembly to review progress. The AIDS pandemic continues to be [...]
©- - 11 june 2022 - 06:14:12 - thread Health (522 words)


Amsterdam, The Netherlands (PANA) - Newly published research from the Netherlands has revealed the existence of a more transmissible and damaging variant of HIV, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said on Monday. People living with the newly revealed subtype experience double the rate of immune system decline (measured [...]
©- - 08 february 2022 - 05:42:43 - thread Health (403 words)


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, vice-president of the Guinean Network of Associations of Infected and Affected Persons (REGAP+), told the Guinean Press Agency (AGP) here Saturday. The same source said that [...]
©- - 04 december 2021 - 19:21:06 - thread Health (376 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UNAIDS and the World Health Organization (WHO), on World AIDS Day marked here Wednesday, highlighted the urgent need to end the economic, social, cultural and legal inequalities that drive the AIDS pandemic and other pandemics around the world. With millions of lives on the line, UNAIDS and [...]
©- - 02 december 2021 - 08:00:57 - thread Health (855 words)


Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The executive secretary of the National AIDS Control Council (CNLS), Dr. Safiatou Thiam, has noted a decline in new HIV infections throughout Senegal. "New infections are falling everywhere in Senegal, except in the age group of young people from nineteen to twenty-four, but this is linked to [...]
©- - 01 december 2021 - 14:53:55 - thread Health (488 words)


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 National AIDS Council (CNLS), Dr. Safiatou Thiam revealed here Wednesday. "Sixteen per cent of people living with HIV do not know their HIV status because they [...]
©- - 01 december 2021 - 14:45:21 - thread Health (395 words)


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 to encourage more people to come forward to be tested. Speaking on the occasion, the minister of Health and Wellness, Kailesh  Jagutpal, said Mauritius responded rapidly [...]
©- - 01 december 2021 - 13:43:48 - thread Health (371 words)


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 high risk, the President of the UN General Assembly reminded a commemorative meeting on Tuesday marking World AIDS Day – 40 years after the first [...]
©- - 01 december 2021 - 05:45:10 - thread Health (575 words)


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 UN Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) warned on Monday in a new report. In an urgent call to action ahead of World AIDS Day on 1 [...]
©- - 30 november 2021 - 05:04:17 - thread Health (768 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) -  The UNAIDS and partners have warned in their 'Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free' report that progress towards ending AIDS among children, adolescents and young women has stalled, a statement received by PANA here Wednesday said. As a result, it said none of the targets set for [...]
©- - 21 july 2021 - 22:24:40 - thread Health (1308 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Although the world has made “great strides” since the first case of AIDS was reported, four decades ago, the UN General Assembly President said on Tuesday that the “tragic reality” is that the most vulnerable remain in jeopardy.  “They are at greatest risk of being left [...]
©- - 09 june 2021 - 05:42:48 - thread Health (552 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius on Wednesday launched a new health caravan specialised in HIV/AIDS screening in Grand River North West, a suburb of Port-Louis, in a bid to offer better services to the community and also to raise awareness, especially among the youth, on the disease. According to Health and [...]
©- - 03 june 2021 - 07:24:07 - thread Health (175 words)


New York, US (PANA) - A new report from the UN agency dedicated to ending HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) has shown that investing $29 billion a year to HIV response in low and middle income countries by 2025, will put the world back on track to eradicate the virus as a [...]
©- - 30 march 2021 - 05:36:56 - thread Health (485 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The African Union Commission (AUC) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the aim of establishing a stronger partnership for a better response to HIV/AIDS on the continent. Under the agreement, the two organisations want to [...]
©- - 18 march 2021 - 15:27:46 - thread Health (333 words)


Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Women show a prevalence rate higher than 3.7 per cent in Congo, the Congolese government declared here Tuesday on the occasion of the International AIDS Day celebrated 1 December every year. According to a statement issued here, youths aged between 15 and 19 years present a prevalence [...]
©- - 01 december 2020 - 21:17:02 - thread Health (502 words)


Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso  Prime Minister Christophe Marie Joseph Dabiré on Tuesday called on the public to refrain from stigmatisation of people living with AIDS. Observing the World AIDS Day, Dabire said: "This day is the framework for demonstrations in support of people living with the virus. It [...]
©- - 01 december 2020 - 16:35:31 - thread Health (166 words)


New York, US (PANA) - The United Nations is commemorating World AIDS Day on Tuesday with a call for “global solidarity and shared responsibility” to overcome not only COVID-19, but also AIDS – another global pandemic that is still with us nearly 40 years after it emerged.  In a message, Secretary-General [...]
©- - 01 december 2020 - 11:54:13 - thread Health (333 words)


Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Guinea's Prime Minister, Dr Ibrahima Kassory Fofana, on Monday hailed the courage and faith of people living with HIV. In a radio and television message ahead of the 32nd World AIDS Day on Tuesday, he said one pandemic should not hide or make us forget another, stressing [...]
©- - 01 december 2020 - 11:34:12 - thread Health (316 words)


Ne York, US (PANA) - 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. In its appeal, the specialised UN agency, UNAIDS, warned that the pandemic has pushed the world’s AIDS [...]
©- - 27 november 2020 - 05:27:24 - thread Health (405 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Seventy-three countries have warned that they are at risk of running of stock of antiretroviral (ARV) medicines as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new WHO survey conducted ahead of the International AIDS Society’s biannual conference The UN health agency said in a statement [...]
©- - 07 july 2020 - 17:46:28 - thread Health (956 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Stocks of medication for HIV patients could run out in the next two months, because of higher costs linked to lockdowns and COVID-19 border closures, UNAIDS said on Monday. In a call to countries and manufacturers to take pre-emptive action now, the agency said that both the [...]
©- - 22 june 2020 - 13:35:39 - thread Health (418 words)


New York, US (PANA) - As the world continues to grapple with the coronavirus, decades of advances made in the battle against HIV are under threat, noted two UN agencies on Monday. And they point out that disruptions to treatment could cause hundreds of thousands of HIV-related deaths. “There is a risk [...]
©- - 12 may 2020 - 06:09:36 - thread Health (652 words)


Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congo's First Lady Antoinette Sassou Nguesso has underlined the urgency for prevention of pediatric mother-to-child HIV transmission in the country. She made the remark on Monday during a  working visit to the Nkayi Rreferral Hospital in Bouenza, in the south of the country, the Congolese public radio [...]
©- - 10 march 2020 - 18:41:23 - thread Health (387 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Gender discrimination and violence, as well as “huge” gaps in education, are among the factors why women and girls remain vulnerable to HIV, according to the UN agency working to end the AIDS epidemic.  In a report launched on Thursday, UNAIDS noted that almost 40 years [...]
©- - 06 march 2020 - 05:31:55 - thread Health (577 words)

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