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The UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) has approved, at a special session, the Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework (UBRAF) for 2022–2026 and the UNAIDS budget for 2022 and 2023. The approved budget is set at up to a threshold of US$ 210 million per year.

unaids.org UNAIDS “A strong role for civil society in the governance of the AIDS response and of the Joint Programme is a reflection of the ethical imperative that affected populations must be engaged at the global, regional, national and local levels if we are to reach the 2030 goal of ending AIDS,” said Ms Byanyima, addressing the representatives of permanent missions in New York. At the meeting, the council considered a report on governance issues by the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating B...

United Nations Member States adopted a set of new and ambitious targets in a political declaration at the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on AIDS, taking place in New York, United States of America. If the international community reaches ...

40 years into the AIDS epidemic, Africa must embody the spirit of Ubuntu if we are to end AIDS Format Forty years ago, on 5 June 1981, the Centers for Disease Control’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report foreshadowed the global AIDS epidemic, which has since resulted in over 75 million HIV infections and 32 million deaths worldwide. Since the 1980s, we have witnessed remarkable moments in science and activism, and, in the last year of AIDS’ 40th decade, a global pandemic so unexpected a...

The Global Partnership for Action to Eliminate all Forms of HIV-related Stigma and Discrimination  The Global Partnership for Action to Eliminate all Forms of HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination (Global Partnership) was established in 2018 following a call to action by the nongovernmental organization delegation to the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB NGO Delegation). It is co-convened by UNAIDS, UN Women, the United Nations Development Programme, the Global Network of People Living ...

UNAIDS More than 150 civil society representatives from 17 countries in Asia and the Pacific joined the first virtual regional consultation on the upcoming United Nations High-Level Meeting on AIDS. “Your views are important. We need them, and they really matter for the success of the political declaration,” said Mitch Fifield, Australia’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and one of the two co-facilitators for the high-level meeting process, in his opening rem...

UNAIDS The Epidemiological Well-Being international conference, which will draw attention to the need for stronger health systems and preparedness against epidemics in the light of the colliding COVID-19 and HIV pandemics, opened today in Moscow, Russian Federation. The aims of the conference include discussions on the progress made against infectious diseases globally, highlighting interim results for reaching the goal of ending AIDS by 2030 and coming up with recommendations for sustainable a...

To ensure the involvement of civil society and ensure an open, transparent and participatory process, UNAIDS is forming, by the end of March, a multistakeholder task force comprised of representatives of civil society and the private sector. The task force will advise UNAIDS on the format, theme and programme of the multistakeholder hearing and will help to identify speakers

UNAIDS warmly welcomes the appointment of Andrew Spieldenner as the Executive Director of MPact Global Action for Gay Men's Health and Rights. MPact has...

unaids.org UNAIDS Andrew Spieldenner will take up his new role of Executive Director of MPact Global Action for Gay Men’s Health and Rights on 1 March 2021. Photo courtesy of MPact Press statement UNAIDS welcomes the appointment of Andrew Spieldenner as Executive Director of MPact 23 February 202123 February 2021 GENEVA, 23 February 2021—UNAIDS warmly welcomes the appointment of Andrew Spield GENEVA, 23 February 2021—UNAIDS warmly welcomes the appointment of Andrew Spieldenner as the Ex...