News
 The following is an archive of all news features appearing on the AIDS Media Center.
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Online Coverage of 4th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention
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11 Jun 2007 |
Kaiser Family Foundation |
| INTERNATIONAL AIDS SOCIETY AND KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION PARTNER TO PROVIDE COMPREHENSIVE ONLINE COVERAGE OF 4TH IAS CONFERENCE ON HIV PATHOGENESIS, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION
Webcasts and Podcasts of Sessions and Interviews from Sydney Expected to Reach Thousands around the World |
LEADING WEB RESOURCE FOR HIV/AIDS, TB AND MALARIA INFORMATION NOW AVAILABLE IN FRENCH, SPANISH, RUSSIAN, HINDI AND SIMPLIFIED CHINESE
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6 Jun 2007 |
Kaiser Family Foundation |
| GlobalHealthReporting.org provides journalists and others across the globe with up-to-date global health statistics, overviews, country-specific information and the latest news |
UNAIDS quarterly newsletter (January – March)
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20 Apr 2007 |
UNAIDS |
| The first UNAIDS quarterly newsletter from 2007 (January – March). The newsletter features information on WHO/UNAIDS recommendations for countries regarding male circumcision and HIV prevention, information on the 7th reference group meeting on HIV and human rights, the new Public Service Announcement (PSA) on AIDS featuring the UNAIDS Special Representative Michael Ballack, and more. The newsletter also highlights latest publications produced by UNAIDS including the “Practical Guidelines for Intensifying HIV Prevention” as well as policies on HIV and refugees and the Greater Involvement of People living with HIV (GIPA).
For more information on UNAIDS activities, please visit the website at www.unaids.org |
Latin American and Caribbean FORUM on HIV/AIDS and STDs
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17 Apr 2007 |
UNAIDS |
The Forum will held in in Buenos Aires April 17-20, 2007 and attended by approximately 3,000 participants representing government, civil society and AIDS activists, people living with HIV and AIDS, academic institutions, the private sector (e.g. pharmaceutical companies), international agencies, and bilateral and multilateral institutions.
http://www.forovihsida2007.org/ |
The 10 Things you Never Knew about the World Bank and HIV/AIDS
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17 Apr 2007 |
World Bank |
| We work with countries and other partners to prevent new infections, expand access to treatment and care, and help families and communities cope with the social and economic effects of HIV and AIDS. We do this through concessional lending and grants, technical support, analysis and policy dialogue. |
The Lancet goes (RED) to support fight against AIDS
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6 Aug 2006 |
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25 Years of AIDS
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11 May 2006 |
UNAIDS |
 UNAIDS Executive Director Dr Peter Piot recently talked to Newsweek magazine as part of its special issue on the 25 years of AIDS. The article shows the enormity of the epidemic as well as the hope.
"Whole communities are standing up to take their destinies in hand. If we can tap that energy and combine it with the resources of the rich world, I think we're going to see tremendous progress over the next few years." |
Protecting Women From HIV/AIDS - Melinda Gates
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11 May 2006 |
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| A few months ago, on a trip to Africa, I met with a group of women in Kibera, the biggest slum in Kenya. These women ranged in age from 16 to 45 but had one thing in common: AIDS had devastated their lives. A woman I'll call Chanya told me her story. Chanya is a mother in her 30s trying to raise four children. She does not fit the typical profile of a person living with AIDS—at least not the profile that prevails in the West... |
WB/IMF Annual Spring Meetings April 22-23
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19 Apr 2006 |
World Bank |
The International Monetary Fund - World Bank Spring Meetings April 22-23 will focus on meeting worldwide social, health, and economic goals in developing countries. These topics are on the agenda for the 24-member joint Bank-IMF Development Committee-the body that sets policy on critical issues and advises on financial resources required to promote economic development in emerging countries. www.worldbank.org/springmeetings
The Global Monitoring Report 2006 measures progress towards the UN Millennium Development Goals for halving extreme poverty and halting the spread of HIV/AIDS, while calling for greater investment to help developing countries tackle corruption and improve governance. www.worldbank.org |
World Health Day 2006: Working together for health
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7 Apr 2006 |
WHO |
 Health workers - the people who provide health care to those who need it - are the heart of health systems. But around the world, the health workforce is in crisis - a crisis to which no country is entirely immune. The results are evident: clinics with no health workers, hospitals that cannot recruit or keep key staff.
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Senegal Triples Number of People on HIV Treatment
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28 Mar 2006 |
WHO |
| In addition to the press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, WHO and UNAIDS will today also hold a press conference in Dakar, Senegal, highlighting progress made in scaling up treatment in the country.
More than 4400 people, or almost half of all people in need, are now receiving lifesaving antiretroviral treatment (ART) in Senegal, nearly three times the number in June 2004, when only 1 600 people were on treatment. |
Global Access to HIV Therapy Tripled in Past Two Years, But Significant Challenges Remain
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28 Mar 2006 |
WHO |
| A new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) shows that the number of people on HIV antiretroviral treatment (ART) in low- and middle-income countries more than tripled to 1.3 million in December 2005 from 400 000 in December 2003. Charting the final progress of the "3 by 5" strategy to expand access to HIV therapy in the developing world, the report also says that the lessons learned in the last two years provide a foundation for global efforts now underway to provide universal access to HIV treatment by 2010. |
March 24 2006: World TB Day
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23 Mar 2006 |
WHO |
 Tuberculosis (TB) is primarily an illness of the respiratory system spread by coughing and sneezing. Each year about 2 million people die from this easily curable disease.
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Economic security for women key to HIV prevention
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8 Mar 2006 |
UNAIDS |
A new paper published by the UNAIDS-led Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA) shows that when women have an income and a safe place to live, they are much better able to negotiate abstinence, fidelity, and safer sex. Economic security, the paper stresses, is a major factor in enabling women to protect themselves from HIV. Today, however, of the 1.2 billion people living on less than US $1 a day, 70% are women. They also represent almost half of all people living with HIV globally. |
International Women's Day
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8 Mar 2006 |
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Statement by Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director UNFPA
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08 March 2006
Today, on International Women’s Day, I join others in paying tribute to women. Progress for women is progress for all. No enduring solutions to society’s most pressing problems can be found without the full empowerment and participation of women. | |
Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development
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2 Mar 2006 |
World Bank |
 This report summarizes why malnutrition persists in developing regions, including Africa and South Asia, causing economic losses and contributing to high child mortality rates. The report indicates that malnourished people are more likely to die of HIV/AIDS. Improving nutrition is essential to reducing poverty and achieving all of the MDGs. |
Bird flu: a wake-up call to the African media
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17 Feb 2006 |
Internews |
 The only way for Africa to combat bird flu successfully is through an effective communication strategy that enables the public to prepare both for outbreaks in their poultry stocks and for a possible human pandemic. |
World not doing nearly enough to protect children affected by AIDS
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17 Feb 2006 |
OneWorld |
| The global response to children affected by HIV and AIDS does not come close to matching the enormity of their rapidly expanding plight. By 2010 an estimated 18 million children in sub-Saharan Africa alone will be orphaned by the disease. Children living with sick and dying parents remain extremely vulnerable, and an estimated 4 million infected children do not have access to appropriate treatments. |
Avian Flu
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21 Feb 2006 |
WHO |
| WHO Factsheet on Avian Flu. |
PlusNews launches Portuguese HIV/AIDS news service
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3 Feb 2006 |
UN IRIN PlusNews |
| To fill the information gap on HIV/AIDS in Portuguese-speaking Africa, PlusNews has launched a new service specialising in HIV/AIDS in the five Lusaphone countries of Africa.
The goal of the service is to be the Portuguese-language reference point for HIV/AIDS in Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe, with links to Brazil, Portugal, and the African Diaspora in the European Union and elsewhere.
Like its sister services PlusNews English and French, PlusNews Portuguese produces original stories through a network of stringers based in the capital and provinces of their countries. We report on the latest medical and cultural research, government, donor and NGO activity, the voices of people living with HIV, gender, governance, and the broad spectrum of issues that interact with HIV and AIDS.
The website features job vacancies, conferences, events, studies and training tools. Subscribing is easy and can be done online. You can choose a daily or weekly format. |
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