World AIDS Day

  Press Conference by Cesar Nunez, Director of the UNAIDS New York Office, on the launch of the World AIDS Day report, Overcoming Disruption: Transforming the AIDS response. ---- “The HIV epidemic is not over, and our previous progress is at risk,” warned César Antonio Núñez, Director of the UNAIDS New York Office, as the UN marked World AIDS Day with an assessment of shrinking global resources. Briefing reporters at UN headquarters, Núñez said the findings of UNAIDS’ new Global Report: Overcoming disruption, transforming the response, point to mounting threats driven by a sharp decline in international funding. The report, launched last week in Geneva, underscores “the importance of overcoming the current disruption in the financing of the AIDS response. ” He highlighted severe pressures on countries already struggling to maintain services. “OECD projects that external health aid will drop by 30 to 40 per cent in 2025 compared to 2023,” he said, adding that the cuts are “causing i...

  Combination HIV prevention seeks to achieve maximum impact on HIV prevention bycombining human rights-based and evidence-informed behavioural, biomedical andstructural strategies in the context of a well- researched and understood local epidemic . Combination HIV prevention can be used also to refer to an individual’s strategy for HIV prevention—combining different tools or approaches (either at the same time or in sequence), according to their current situation, risk and choices. Combination prevention includes both primary prevention (focused on people who are HIVnegative) as well as prevention of onward transmission from people living with HIV. Source: UNAIDS Terminology guidelines 2015. Geneva: UNAIDS; 2015.  Key features of combination prevention programmes  ▪ Tailored to national and local needs and contexts.  ▪ Combine biomedical, behavioural and structural interventions.  ▪ Fully engage affected communities, promoting human rights and gender equality...