HIV :: Universal access to reproductive health
If we are to stop AIDS and keep the promise, we must guarantee universal access to reproductive health as world leaders have agreed.
If we are to stop AIDS and keep the promise, we must guarantee universal access to reproductive health as world leaders have agreed.
ILO staff made a human AIDS ribbon in their central hall, the Colonnades, in Geneva for World AIDS Day.
I urge everyone to use the occasion of this year?s World AIDS Day to renew our collective commitment by holding ourselves accountable for the success of UNESCO?s response to HIV and AIDS.
Political leaders are gradually becoming more aware of the need for food and nutritional support in the ‘essential package of care’ for people affected by HIV.
This is the 19th World AIDS Day, the 25th year since the first case of AIDS was identified and 10 years since UNAIDS was established.
In the 25 years since the first case was reported, AIDS has changed the world. It has killed 25 million people, and infected 40 million more.
As World AIDS Day is celebrated across the world on 1 December 2006, UNAIDS partners including Cosponsor organizations, UNAIDS Special Representatives, civil society and faith-based organizations release commemorative messages.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was joined by UNAIDS Executive Director Dr Peter Piot and leaders of different faiths to commemorate World AIDS Day at St. Bartholomew?s Episcopal Church in New York.
Pfizer announced today that it plans to establish a multi-national Expanded Access Program (EAP) to make the investigational CCR5 antagonist maraviroc, currently in ongoing phase 3 clinical trials, available to HIV/AIDS patients with CCR5-tropic HIV-1 who have limited or no approved treatment options due to resistance or intolerance.
Online dating and matchmaking services definately help HIV positive people to conquer HIV stigma. Not only can anti-retroviral therapy (ART) prolong the lives of HIV-positive people by more than 20 years, infected couples can now get uninfected children, thanks to advances in medical technology.