May 10, 2021 03:43:03 PM Sixty per cent of female sex workers in Fiji avoid getting tested for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) due to the fear of being stigmatised by healthcare providers. This is revealed in a survey carried out by the Joint United Nations Programme on Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). UNAIDS country director Renata Ram said barriers such as discrimination and punitive laws were some of the ongoing challenges faced by people living with the disease. Ram in a statement said to add to this, the funding landscape of human immunodeficiency viruses in the Pacific is fast declining
According to the bill, it is aggravated rape when the sexual offender is suffering from AIDS.
The executive director, Winnie Byanyima says targeting people living with HIV increases stigma and discrimination and also undermines the HIV response by preventing people from receiving the HIV treatment, prevention and care services that they so urgently need.”
She has meanwhile applauded the government for the good progress that Uganda has made in recent years in reducing the impact of HIV.
The number of AIDS-related deaths has fallen by 60% since 2010, with 1.2 million people out of 1.5 million people living with HIV on medicines to keep them alive and well.
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I applaud the announcement from United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai supporting the waiving of intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines.
This is the kind of global leadership the world desperately needs as we witness horrific scenes in countries like India, where only nine in 100 people have been vaccinated. To date, more than 1.1 billion doses of vaccine have been administered globally, but more than 80% of those have been administered in high- and upper-middle income countries, while just 0.3% have been administered in low-income countries.
We are in a race to vaccinate the majority of the world’s population to curb death tolls and before more potent variants of COVID-19 emerge, rendering current vaccines ineffective. The faster we can scale up global vaccine supply, the faster we can contain the virus and the less chance we will face a day when variants prove resistant to existing vaccines. As the United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Gut
BOZEMAN, Montana For decades, the Caribbean has suffered from high rates of HIV/AIDS infections. Influenced by numerous factors, including unequal healthcare access and social stigmas, the region has the second-highest HIV prevalence in the world. Currently, around 330,000 people in the archipelago have a diagnosed HIV infection with many more cases likely remaining undiagnosed. Despite alarming rates of infections, however, the region has seen promising improvements since prioritizing the overall goal of eliminating AIDS by 2030.
What is HIV?
To understand the magnitude of this epidemic for Caribbean residents, it is important to understand HIV/AIDS as a disease and how current programs are combatting this problem. In short, HIV is a virus that attacks the body’s own immune system. The normal progression of HIV leads to AIDS, which results in a depleted immune system, and therefore, increased susceptibility to other illnesses. There is no complete cure for HIV but treatments c
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Forty years since the first AIDS cases were reported and just weeks before the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on AIDS, the United Nations Secretary-General has released a new report with recommendations and targets to get the world back on track to end AIDS
NEW YORK, 30 April 2021-The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has warned that despite intensive action and progress made against HIV in some places and population groups, HIV epidemics continue to expand in others and issued a set of 10 key recommendations. If followed by all countries, this will end the AIDS pandemic as a public health threat by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals. In a new report, Addressing inequalities and getting back on track to end AIDS by 2030, the United Nations Secretary-General urges the world to address the inequalities that are slowing progress.