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New York, US (PANA) - The UN agency leading the global effort to end HIV/AIDS worldwide welcomed legislative approval from the United States on Thursday for a $6 billion spending package to help tackle the disease, following nearly a year of sharp aid cuts.“This US investment will provide lifesaving support [...]
©- - 06 february 2026 - 06:33:48 - thread Health (393 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Pooja Mishra’s health kept worsening until she began treatment for HIV at age 19, two years after her diagnosis. From wondering if she’d ever be able to live a normal life, today she is youth coordinator at a coalition for people with the disease in India.“Promise [...]
©- - 02 december 2025 - 07:14:37 - thread Health (525 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Deputy President Paul Mashatile, in his capacity as the Chairperson of the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC), is leading Monday's official Commemoration of World AIDS Day in South Africa’s Limpopo Province.World AIDS Day is commemorated annually across the globe in solidarity with the [...]
©- - 01 december 2025 - 07:36:57 - thread Health (166 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The global response to HIV is facing its most serious setback in decades, UNAIDS warned on Tuesday, as abrupt funding cuts and a deteriorating human rights environment disrupt prevention and treatment services across dozens of countries.Launching its 2025 World AIDS Day report, “Overcoming Disruption, Transforming the [...]
©- - 25 november 2025 - 17:46:03 - thread Health (718 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Sub-Saharan Africa has taken a cautious but critical step toward greater health self-reliance as locally produced HIV medicines and diagnostic tests begin reaching national programmes – including, for the first time, procurement of African-made treatment for Mozambique.The development marks a milestone for a region that bears [...]
©- - 02 august 2025 - 05:34:52 - thread Health (541 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A breakthrough HIV drug that only needs to be injected twice a year to offer near-total protection from the virus and developing AIDS should be made available “immediately” at pharmacies, clinics and via online consultations, the UN health agency said on Monday.Injectable lenacapavir – LEN, for [...]
©- - 14 july 2025 - 13:08:26 - thread Health (538 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Devastating funding cuts from international donors are hitting countries hardest affected by HIV — but many are showing remarkable resilience and determination to keep progress alive. The 2025 Global AIDS Update released on Thursday by UNAIDS – the global body’s agency fighting AIDS and HIV infection [...]
©- - 11 july 2025 - 05:41:31 - thread Health (452 words)


Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has launched a bold new national initiative aimed at eliminating AIDS among children by 2030 – a move hailed by the United Nations as “a beacon of hope” amid growing global funding constraints. “Our country can no longer tolerate children [...]
©- - 30 june 2025 - 05:43:25 - thread Health (489 words)


Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - As part of the fight against HIV/AIDS in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), President Félix Tshisekedi has just launched an initiative aimed at eliminating AIDS among Congolese children by 2030."Our country can no longer tolerate children being born and growing up with HIV, when tools [...]
©- - 17 june 2025 - 08:10:11 - thread Health (588 words)


New York, US (PANA) - AIDS-related deaths have dropped to their lowest level since 2004, but progress remains precarious, with the disease still claiming one life every minute. The impact of funding cuts is severe, causing widespread disruption to HIV services and threatening hard-won gains. More than 30 million people are [...]
©- - 06 june 2025 - 07:05:52 - thread Health (409 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Amid continuing uncertainty about the impact of deep US funding cuts to humanitarian work worldwide, the head of the UN agency coordinating the fight against HIV-AIDS warned that an additional 6.3 million people will die in the next four years, unless support is reinstated.“We will see [...]
©- - 25 march 2025 - 05:33:05 - thread Health (760 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Global efforts to tackle the HIV/AIDS epidemic continue to remain insufficient, with deadly consequences, the UN Human Rights Council heard on Thursday.In a stark assessment of the current situation of the health crisis, Deputy UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif warned that more than [...]
©- - 07 march 2025 - 10:34:20 - thread Health (669 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Shuttered clinics and health workers laid off around the world reflect the widespread, negative toll the United States funding freeze is taking on the global AIDS response, according to a new situation report released on Wednesday by the UN agency charged with responding to the [...]
©- - 27 february 2025 - 05:56:16 - thread Health (737 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 is within reach, but only if global leaders commit to dismantling barriers to healthcare and upholding human rights, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on World AIDS Day.Observed annually on 1 December, the World AIDS Day serves [...]
©- - 02 december 2024 - 05:26:02 - thread Health (547 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's Deputy President Paul Mashatile, in his capacity as the Chairperson of the National AIDS Council (SANAC), on Sunday led the official commemoration of World AIDS Day event at the Sisa Dukashe Stadium in the Eastern Cape Province.World AIDS Day is commemorated annually across [...]
©- - 01 december 2024 - 15:18:57 - thread Health (176 words)


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)

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