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Caribbean Faith Leaders Consultation Concludes with Strategic Recommendations for Ending AIDS by 2030
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Faith Leaders Consultation, held on 1-2 February 2017 in Trinidad and Tobago, concluded with strategic recommendations to improve the overall quality of life of People Living with and Affected by HIV and AIDS. The Consultation, which was supported by the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), the Global…
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2016 United Nations Political Declaration on Ending AIDS sets world on the Fast-Track to end the epidemic by 2030
NEW YORK/GENEVA, 8 June 2016—UNAIDS welcomes the new goals, targets and commitments of the 2016 United Nations General Assembly Political Declaration on Ending AIDS. Countries have agreed to a historic and urgent agenda to accelerate efforts towards ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030. The Political Declaration provides a global mandate to Fast-Track the AIDS response over the next five years.…
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UNAIDS: Caribbean can accelerate progress to end AIDS as public health threat
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Wednesday November 25, 2015 – The Caribbean is being told it can build on the gains of its HIV responses to end AIDS as a public health threat, if it follows a new strategy created by the United Nations’ Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). A new global HIV report released yesterday ahead of World AIDS Day, ‘Focus…
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AIDS deaths down by 61% in Caribbean
In the last ten years alone the Caribbean achieved a 61 per cent reduction in Aids-related deaths, according to a report, titled Focus on location and population: Fast track to end Aids by 2030, which was released from UNAids World yesterday. December 1 marks World Aids Day. The report said since 2000, new infections in the region had declined by…
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UNAIDS holds final virtual consultation on its 2016-2021 Strategy
UNAIDS is holding a second and final virtual consultation to review its 2016-2021 Strategy. The draft of the Strategy is available online for review and comment until 21st August. This consultation follows eight months of discussions at global and regional levels. UNAIDS hosted its first virtual consultation in March 2015, receiving 280 inputs from 50 countries in five languages. Young people, people living with and…
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Vancouver HIV-AIDS meeting seen as step towards ending pandemic by 2030
VANCOUVER — Global partners in the Diagnostics Access Initiative have joined with Roche Diagnostics to announce a 35 percent reduction in the price for HIV early infant diagnostic technologies. The new access price is US$9.40 per test, including proprietary reagents and consumables associated with diagnosing HIV in very young children. Partners involved in the negotiation of this reduced access price…
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