UNAIDS is ending operations in The Gambia

Local agencies, especially AIDS support societies in The Gambia (where an estimated 500 people still die of HIV/AIDS or related diseases every year) have been taken aback by this decision.

HIV/AIDS not a death sentence

Give AIDS the Red Card initiative launched at All-Africa Games in Mozambique

The Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Michel Sidibé and Mozambique’s Minister of Youth and Sports Pedrito Caetano launched the UNAIDS Give AIDS the Red Card initiative today at the Joaquim Chissano International Conference Center in Maputo. The announcement was made on the eve of the 10^th All-Africa Games, the continent’s largest multi-sports tournament, under the patronage of Dr. Aires Aly Bonifácio, Prime Minister of Mozambique.

Universal Access: A HIV/AIDS dream that must be achieved

“Universal Access is a dream that must be met and we shall not relent until the day we are all collectively able to ensure that no one living with HIV is stigmatized, young people know how to protect themselves from infection and no infant is born with the virus,” Mr. Nuha Ceesay, UNAIDS Country officer in The Gambia said.

“The commitment to Universal Access therefore established major milestone on the road toward the achievement in 2015 of the Millennium Development Goals especially the target under Goal 6 - but also the wider goal s on poverty, education, gender equality, child mortality and maternal mortality.”