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The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) has launched a new global report. “With this release, we also have hopeful optimism, and also a clarion call for urgency,” Assistant Secretary-General Angeli Achrekar said. UNIFEED

Addressing a plenary meeting on the Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS, General Assembly President Csaba Kőrösi said “the global AIDS response has led to remarkable results” but noted that “while this progress is exceptional, it is also uneven.” UNIFEED

“In spite of all the setbacks, we can end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030, as we promised if the world comes together,” UNAIDS Executive Director said at the opening of a General Assembly high-level meeting on AIDS. UNIFEED

On World AIDS Day 2018, UNAIDS said it was focusing on HIV testing with a new report showing that intensified testing and treatment efforts are reaching more people living with HIV. UNAIDS

An International Labour Organization (ILO) report says that migrants’ access to health and HIV services can be improved only by adopting a human rights-based approach in the governance of the entire migration process. ILO

The United Nation Mission in South Sudan in collaboration with the ministry of health has graduated thirty HIV and AIDS Counselors to help in the fight against the spread of HIV and its stigma. UNMISS

The United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted a political declaration aimed at accelerating the fight against HIV and ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030. UNIFEED-UNTV

UNAIDS said that three out of 100 adults are living with HIV in South SudanThe prevalence on average in the country is 2.7 percent, but some areas like Ezo, it’s been a lot higher (14 percent). The numbers have been exacerbated by reports of rape and sexual assault since the conflict began in December 2013.

On the eve of World Aids Day, the director of UNAIDS in New York warned that despite significant progress towards ending the epidemic by 2030, as articulated in the new Sustainable Development Goals, “this is no time for triumphalism”. UNIFEED-UNTV

A new report released by UNAIDS in Geneva shows that more than15 million people are now on life-saving antiretroviral medication, double the number of people on treatment just 5 years ago. UNTV CH