"JOINT UNITED NATIONS PROGRAMME ON HIV-AIDS - UNAIDS"

To reduce the spread of HIV, a drop-in clinic in Dakar offers free opioid substitution to people who inject drugs. UNAIDS

A new report, In Danger, is being launched ahead of the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Canada. The report shows that globally the number of new infections dropped only 3.6 percent between 2020 and 2021, the smallest annual decline in new HIV infections since 2016. UNAIDS

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Speakers urge greater analysis of critical work, deliberations, not just compilation of activities, as General Assembly reviews Security Council’s annual report.

More than 600,000 Ukrainian refugees arrived in Germany since the war broke out. Among them many people living with HIV, mostly women. UNAIDS estimates that 260,000 Ukrainians live with HIV. Up to 30,000 fled their country since the start of the war and need HIV treatment. UNAIDS

Economic and Social Council nominates experts, fills multiple vacancies for 16 subsidiary bodies.

Filling vacancies in five subsidiary bodies, Economic and Social Council also approves nominations for two others, elects Vice-President of 2022 session.

A commemorative meeting to mark 2021 World Aids Day, under the theme "End inequalities. End AIDS. End Pandemics.", organized in collaboration with UNAIDs.

Ahead of World AIDS Day, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) issued a “stark warning” that AIDS remains a pandemic, and that “bold actions against inequalities” are needed “to end AIDS, stop COVID-19 and prepare for future pandemics.” UNIFEED

On World AIDS Day, UNAIDS warns that the world could face 7.7 million AIDS-related deaths over the next 10 years. UNAIDS