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UNAIDS warmly welcomes the announcement by the United Nations Secretary-General that Henrietta Holsman Fore has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Ms Fore is a champion of economic development, education, health and humanitarian assistance and was the first woman to serve as...

The 41st UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board meeting concluded in Geneva, Switzerland, on 14 December. The Board took note of the report on progress in implementing the UNAIDS Joint Programme Action Plan and the Strategic Resource Mobilization Plan 2018–2021 and called for additional contributions towards fully funding UNAIDS’ core Budget, Results...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Gunilla Carlsson as the new UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director, Management and Governance, and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations.

The advances in the response to HIV have been unprecedented. In South Africa in 2000, just 90 people had access to antiretroviral therapy. Today, South Africa has the largest treatment programme in the world, with 4.2 million people living with HIV in the country now on treatment. We have exceeded...

UNAIDS and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) today signed a new cooperation agreement to promote access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services for migrants, mobile populations and people affected by humanitarian emergencies.

New report highlights urgent need for an improved HIV response for children and adolescents

New report from UNAIDS shows the blind spot in reaching men with HIV services

The World Health Organization has validated Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, and Saint Kitts and Nevis as achieving dual elimination

The celebrated fashion designer Marc Jacobs has designed a limited edition T-shirt to raise funds for UNAIDS’ activities in support of people around the world living with or affected by HIV. The T-shirt will retail for US$ 55 and is on sale at marcjacobs.com.

This World AIDS Day, we are highlighting the importance of the right to health and the challenges that people living with and affected by HIV face in fulfilling that right.

New report from UNAIDS highlights the right to health as the key to ending AIDS

The Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé, has appointed the Associate Scientific Director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, as a UNAIDS Special Ambassador for Adolescents and HIV. The announcement was made in Cape Town during the launch of a new...

UNAIDS welcomes the appointment of Peter Sands as the new Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund).

In the lead-up to World AIDS Day on 1 December, UNAIDS has launched this year’s World AIDS Day campaign. The campaign, My Health, My Right, focuses on the right to health and explores the challenges people around the world face in exercising their rights.

UNAIDS warmly welcomes the nomination by the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) of Audrey Azoulay as its new Director-General.

Global HIV Prevention Coalition holds first meeting to find ways to strengthen and sustain political commitment for HIV prevention.

UNFPA’s response to HIV is integral to its goals of achieving universal access to sexual and reproductive health and ending gender-based violence.

UNAIDS warmly congratulates Mariângela Batista Galvão Simão on her appointment as the Assistant Director-General for Drug Access, Vaccines and Pharmaceuticals at the World Health Organization (WHO).

New report from UNAIDS gives evidence and highlights best practices on confronting stigma and discrimination to ensure access to health services

Negotiated pricing agreements have lowered costs and will improve access to quality treatment for people living with HIV

World leaders come together to renew the urgency around ending AIDS as part of the Sustainable Development Goals

UNAIDS congratulates Lesotho and Uganda on the progress made towards ending AIDS shown in their respective Population-Based HIV Impact Assessments (PHIAs).

Innovation and research are critical.

New study shows results delivered thanks to focused efforts in collaboration with United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief

AIDS investments, exceptional value for money.

What's on track, what's off track.

Her contribution to the AIDS response began in the early 1990s during her work with the Society of Women and AIDS in Africa.

African heads of state have endorsed two major new initiatives to help end AIDS by 2030.

Ghana has pledged US$ 200 000 to support the work of UNAIDS. The pledge was made at the close of PCB-40.

Board members unanimously approve US$ 484 million budget for 2018–2019.

The Government of Germany has announced that it will double its funding to UNAIDS in 2017-2018, to €5 million per year. Germany made the announcement at PCB-40.

Hosts welcomed around 270 guests.

To be hosted by Princess Eugenie of York, Caroline Rupert and Ndaba Mandela.

Dr Osotimehin was widely regarded for his work on sexual and reproductive health, as well as his work on HIV.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director Jan Beagle as the next Under-Secretary-General for Management.

WHO Member States cast their final votes at a closed session during the 70th World Health Assembly.

On HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, UNAIDS is calling for continued research to find a vaccine for HIV.

To end AIDS it is essential to end the stigma and discrimination faced by LGBTI people.

The UN General Assembly confirmed the appointment of Mr Steiner for a four-year term of office at UNDP beginning on 20 April 2017.

An internationally renowned scientist, Dr Wainberg was a leading HIV researcher from the start of the AIDS epidemic.

“The appointment of David Beasley comes at a critical moment,” said UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé. “WFP’s work to achieve food security is at the heart of global efforts to break the cycle of hunger and poverty and essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals which include ending the AIDS...

On World Tuberculosis Day, 24 March, UNAIDS is urging countries to do much more to reduce the number of tuberculosis (TB) deaths among people living with HIV. TB is the most common cause of hospital admission and death among people living with HIV. In 2015, 1.1 million people died from...

Nearly 1 million women are becoming infected with HIV every year and only half of all women living with HIV have access to lifesaving treatment—making AIDS now the leading cause of death worldwide among women between the ages of 30 and 49.

Everyone will have experienced discrimination of some kind during their lives; however, non-discrimination is a human right. Equally, states and individuals have a legal obligation not to discriminate. This year, on 1 March, Zero Discrimination Day, UNAIDS is urging people to make some noise around zero discrimination, to speak up...

UNAIDS extends its congratulations to Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo, former Prime Minister of Togo, who has been newly appointed as President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

On International Condom Day, UNAIDS is calling for countries to remove barriers that hinder access to, and the use of, condoms.

On World Cancer Day, UNAIDS is calling for all women living with HIV to have access to information about the human papillomavirus (HPV) and to be offered cervical cancer screening and treatment if necessary.

UNAIDS has presented Professor Peng Liyuan, the First Lady of China, with the UNAIDS Award for Outstanding Achievement in recognition of her remarkable contribution to the global response to HIV.