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Boost in HIV Services to End AIDS by 2030.

Watch UN Agencies Urge an Immediate Boost in HIV Services to End AIDS by 2030!

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UNAIDS on the launch of report entitled "The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroads" - Press Conference.

Press briefing by César Núñez, Director of the UNAIDS New York Office, on the launch of the UNAIDS report entitled "The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroads" just ahead of the 25th International AIDS Conference '(AIDS2024) in Munich, Germany. UN Web TV

Watch the UNAIDS on the launch of report entitled "The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroads" - Press Conference!

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The path to ending AIDS – Progress report on 2025 targets and solutions for the future.

On the occasion of the UNGA78 AIDS review, UNAIDS will hold a briefing, "The path to ending AIDS – Progress report on 2025 targets and solutions for the future".

The briefing will complement the debate in the GA Plenary and provide an opportunity for a more direct and interactive exchange between senior-level representatives of UNAIDS, Member States and civil society. It will focus on the progress made towards the 2025 global targets that will pave the way towards ending AIDS as a global public health threat by 2030 and the urgent action required for addressing the remaining gaps and challenges, as well as discuss key issues around the sustainability of the HIV response and maintaining the gains in the future.

Speakers:  

Angeli Achrekar, UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director and an Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations

Jaime Atienza, Director, Equitable Financing, UNAIDS 

Watch the UNAIDS: The Path to Ending AIDS!

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HIV/AIDS: Meeting Unmet Needs in Treatment and Prevention.

A panel discussion organized by DGC/Civil Society in observance of World AIDS Day (1 December).

This event will bring together representatives from civil society, health practitioners, specialists, and the UN system at the forefront of meeting the unmet needs of those with HIV/AIDS and those who could be potentially exposed.

The discussion will highlight the current state of HIV/AIDS globally, key obstacles that have been preventing those who need care from getting it, and how to overcome those obstacles and meet the treatment and prevention needs of those living with or potentially exposed to HIV on an individual, community, state, and global level. Featured speakers will share their experiences and give insight into the session theme.  

Speakers:

Raymond Ayala, Medical Case Manager, Path, The Brooklyn Hospital Center.

Nkwenti Guedem Edwige, Nurse Practitioner and HIV Specialist.

Emma Kaplan-Lewis, Clinical Quality Director HIV Services at NYC Health and Hospitals.

Toyin Falusi Nwafor, MD, Senior Medical Director, HIV Prevention at ViiV Healthcare.

Antonio Urbina, MD, Mount Sinai; Associate Professor of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine. 

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How community-led interventions are central to achieving the end of AIDS and to sustaining the gains into the future.

We have an extraordinary, historic opportunity. We can end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 and sustain these gains in future decades. We even know how—by enabling the leadership of the communities at the frontlines.

This report shows how community-led interventions are central to achieving the end of AIDS and to sustaining the gains into the future. This report shines a light on the underreported story of the everyday heroes of the HIV response. But it is much more than a celebration of the achievements of communities. It is an urgent call to action for governments and international partners to enable and support communities in their leadership roles.

People living with or affected by HIV have driven progress in the HIV response—reaching people who have not been reached; connecting people with the services they need; pioneering innovations; holding providers, governments, international organizations and donors to account; and spearheading inspirational movements for health, dignity and human rights for all. They are the trusted voices. Communities understand what is most needed, what works, and what needs to change. Communities have not waited to be handed their leadership roles— they have taken the roles on themselves and held fast in their insistence on doing so. They have applied their skills and determination to help tackle other pandemics and health crises too, including COVID-19, Ebola and mpox. Letting communities lead builds healthier and stronger societies.

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Congressional Commemoration and Ministerial Roundtable.

"We have to work hard to sustain the response and we have to do that in three dimensions: Political leadership; Programmatic sustainability; Financial support."

November 30th at 8:00 AM GMT+1. World AIDS Day 2023 Congressional Commemoration and Ministerial Roundtable. UNAIDS

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Launch of the 2023 UNAIDS World AIDS Day report - Let Communities Lead.

This report sets out why and how we must: ƒ Make communities’ leadership roles central to the formulation, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all plans, policies and programmes that will affect communities and that impact the HIV response—“nothing about us without us”. ƒ Fully and sustainably fund communities’ leadership roles so that programmes can be scaled up, and the people implementing them can be properly supported and remunerated. ƒ Remove barriers to communities’ leadership roles by ensuring civil society space and protecting the human rights of all people, including people from marginalized and criminalized communities. The UNAIDS Global AIDS Update released in July 2023 demonstrates that there is a path that ends AIDS. The data showed that enabling community-led responses—by people living with HIV, key populations and priority populations, including adolescent girls and young women—is key to ensuring success.

This World AIDS Day Report takes a deeper dive into how community leadership advances progress, how that leadership is being obstructed, and how it can be fully unleashed. Importantly, alongside the UNAIDS analysis, the report includes nine guest essays by community leaders that reveal how they have been able to drive change, how they experience obstacles in their way, and the actions they are urging governments and international partners to take to enable communities to lead us to the end of AIDS by 2030. The approach that this report calls for is not new. It has been promised by world leaders. The 2021 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Ending Inequalities and Getting on Track to End AIDS by 2030 commits decision-makers to actions to support communities to lead the way. The targets agreed include that, by 2025, community-led organizations should deliver 30% of testing and treatment services, 80% of HIV prevention services for people from populations at high risk of infection, and 60% of programmes to support societal changes that enable an effective and sustainable HIV response. In addition, they agreed on the 10–10–10 targets to remove punitive laws against LGBTQI people, people who use drugs, sex workers and people from other often criminalized populations, and to reduce stigma and discrimination, gender inequality and violence experienced by people living with HIV and people from key populations and priority populations.

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GERMANY- Discussions on the vital role of community-led organizations in the response in ukraine.

For 30 November, UNAIDS and Ukrainian community-led organizations are organizing an event on the vital role of community-led organizations in the response in Ukraine and amongst Ukrainians displaced across Europe, at which Christine Stegling, Deputy Executive Director, is set to speak.

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GENEVA - Concert at the Maison de Quartier des Pâquis.

On 1 December, UNAIDS is supporting PVA Genève, the network of people living with HIV, who are leading along with the Hospital of the University of Geneva (HUG) and other partners in organizing an inter-faith service at the St. Joseph’s Church at 18:30 local time followed by a silent march with candles in Geneva that will start at 19:30 at the church and end with a gathering and concert at the Maison de Quartier des Pâquis at 20:30. All staff and friends are encouraged to attend these events.

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ZIMBABWE- Enabling key populations to access services.

On World AIDS Day, 1 December, Executive Director Winnie Byanyima will be in Victoria Falls. In the morning she is set to commemorate the many lives lost to AIDS with the government and leaders of the HIV response in Zimbabwe; in the afternoon, she will visit a community-led initiative enabling key populations to access services. This is followed by ICASA, the 22nd edition of the largest HIV conference in Africa, taking place from 4 December in Harare, with a number of pre-meetings taking place just before then in Victoria Falls. ICASA will also highlight the importance of enabling communities in their leadership role.

VICTORIA FALLS AND HARARE, Zimbabwe | 1 December and beyond.

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ETHIOPIA - How better to engage the community not only in HIV/AIDS response but also in monitoring.

The Minister of Health proposed commemorating WAD 2023 in Addis-Ababa city on 1 December at the UN Compound. The planned WAD events will include among others an official commemoration in place to be communicated with official addressing, a panel discussion on selected topics by inviting technical experts through TV including the use of sign language, use of other media outlets including social media and the production and dissemination of messages on HIV prevention using banners and posters. From 28 to 29 November there will be a community-led monitoring national workshop. This workshop will bring together 80 people from all Ethiopian regions and will discuss how better to engage the community not only in HIV/AIDS response but also in monitoring. This will include a discussion on the digitalization of CLM.

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TANZANIA - Sensitization and fundraising events.

On 25 November, World AIDS Day week will be launched in Morogoro with the presence of the Morogoro Regional Commissioner. The week will be marked by AIDS Trust Fund sensitization and fundraising events and protests. The National Scientific Symposium on HIV and AIDS will be held on 27-28 November and will be attended by the Minister of Health, Ummy Mwalimu. On 30 November, the main Youth WAD will be held with the presence of the Minister of State, Prime Minister's Office, Jenista Mhagama. On 1 December there will be another WAD led by the Prime Minister of the United Republic of Tanzania, Hon. Kassim Majaliwa.

MOROGORO, Tanzania | November/December

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ZAMBIA - National World AIDS Day 2023 event.

The National World AIDS Day event will be tentatively held at the Baha’i temple and attended by the Minister of Health, Sylvia Masebo and the UCD of Zambia, Tharcisse Barihuta. World AIDS Day satellite events (testing, outreach, awareness) take place across the country starting from 6 November.

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ESWATINI - 2023 World AIDS Day satellite events (testing, outreach, awareness).

World AIDS Day will begin with a launch by the Minister of Health, followed by regional activities that will serve as a build-up to the main event on 1 December 2023.

The Shiselweni region event for the WAD targeting adolescent girls and Young Women (AGYW) will be held on 17 November.

The Hhohho region event for the WAD targeting Key population will be held on 24 November.

The National World AIDS Day event targeting the mobile population will be held on 1 December.

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LESOTHO - Act towards enabling communities’ leadership in the national response and on the Path to End AIDS.

There will be a two-day national dialogue hosted on November 22 to 23 for stakeholders to reflect on and discuss the extent to which communities’ leadership in the national HIV response is enabled. The main event of the WAD Commemoration 2023 will take place at Matsieng, Maseru on 1 December. It will start with a peaceful walk which will be done in the spirit of showcasing the achievements of civil society organizations in the national response to HIV. His Majesty the King will deliver the keynote address in which he will outline and congratulate all stakeholders on achievements of the national response, charge all stakeholders to act towards enabling communities’ leadership in the national response and on the Path to End AIDS.

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KENYA - Dialogue entitled "Youth Leading the Way to End AIDS".

In advance of World AIDS Day, a day of dialogue entitled "Youth Leading the Way to End AIDS" will focus on the best practices of youth-led organisations.

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BRAZILIA - Inauguration of the "HIVIDA - Celebrating Life to Eliminate the AIDS Epidemic." Project.

On 30 November, UNAIDS, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and various other partners, will inaugurate the "HIVIDA - Celebrating Life to Eliminate the AIDS Epidemic" project. This groundbreaking initiative will unitea wide array of public and cost-free activities spanning 10 days, from 1 December (World AIDS Day) to 10 December (International Human Rights Day). Its overarching objective is to galvanize society into urgently confronting the impact of inequalities in HIV/AIDS and pandemic response. It will underscore the pivotal role of communities as well as the critical importance of upholding and respecting human rights across all dimensions as the path to end AIDS. The initiative will encompass a rich tapestry of artistic expressions, workshops, lectures, exhibitions, performances, music, visual projections, healthcare services, and civic engagement initiatives, among other offerings.