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Recent crises have pushed the gender inequality gap even wider and new technology has brought new threats to women’s autonomy and safety. This year’s International Women's Day celebrated under the

It is possible to end AIDS by 2030, but only if governments act now to equalise access to HIV services for everyone, write Anne Githuku-Shongwe and Eva Kiwango.

It is crucial for everyone around the globe to be able to equally access HIV/AIDS treatment

UNAIDS welcomes South Africa's Cabinet's proposal to repeal criminalisation and to protect sex workers against abuse and exploitation.

Download logoResponding to the decision of South Africa's Cabinet to propose a Bill that will repeal criminalisation of sex work, UNAIDS Country Director

UNAids and its partners this month convened an emergency meeting on HIV prevention. Experts and implementers from around the world joined UNAids in South Africa to set targets and put prevention programming into practice. Maverick Citizen spoke to Eva Kiwango, UNAids’ country director for South...

Since floods killed 440 people and left many thousands more homeless last week in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa, UNAIDS has been working with communities, civil society and government leaders to respond.

Hundreds of people living with HIV are spreading the word in South Africa that effective treatment can prevent onward transmission of the virus. The Eastern Cape has become the first of nine provinces in South Africa to launch a public information campaign to raise awareness of U = U (undetectable = untransmittable) and to encourage people living with HIV to commence, maintain

Born and raised in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Ms Mathe was a phoenix who rose from the ashes after losing both of her parents at the tender age of 12 years. Ms Mathe was no ordinary person; she was an unforgettable icon who challenged HIV for the 31 years of her life. A quiet revolutionary, like still waters running deep, she was shy in her mannerisms, yet her advocacy spoke volumes.

Supporting people living with HIV in Mozambique during the COVID-19 pandemic Format Head of ARISO-CSO working with the incarcerated population handing over Hygiene kits and masks © UNAIDS The COVID-19 pandemic poses extraordinary challenges to people living with HIV in Mozambique. On 30 March 2020, the President of Mozambique issued the first presidential decree declaring a State of Emergency phase three and the government set preventative measures to curb the epidemic before it spread widely ...