Looking ahead of World AIDS Day – 1 December 2010
http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?article3140On 1 December, people from all over the world will commemorate World
AIDS Day (WAD) by organizing national and local events that aim to
raise more public awareness and a better understanding of HIV/AIDS; to
breakdown some of the unwarranted stigma that surrounds HIV; and to
mobilize funds for further HIV/AIDS support. The day will also
highlight the critical need for universal access to essential care and
promote what has been accomplished in combating this global pandemic.
The theme for WAD 2010 is Universal Access and Human Rights. This
theme underlines that everyone affected by the disease should have
ensured non-discriminatory and non-judgmental access to adequate HIV
prevention, treatment, care and support. To support this theme, the
World Aids Campaign (WAC) in collaboration with the joint United
Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the Foundation for Aids
Research (amfAR), Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, has launched the
"Lights for Rights" campaign, which aims to "illuminate the
fundamental rights we all share," and to keep the light on HIV and
human rights.
Prior to WAD, on 23 November, UNAIDS launched its Global Report on the
global AIDS epidemic 2010, which includes, the latest data from 182
countries; new country by country scorecards on key issues facing the
AIDS response; and trend data on incidence from more than 60
countries.
According to the press release:
New UNAIDS report shows AIDS epidemic has been halted and world
beginning to reverse the spread of HIV. New HIV infections have fallen
by nearly 20% in the last 10 years, AIDS-related deaths are down by
nearly 20% in the last five years, and the total number of people
living with HIV is stabilizing.
To download the report, click here.
Besides, a joint report by the United Nations Children's Fund
(UNICEF), UNAIDS, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) will be launched on 30
November, ahead of World Aids Day. The 2010 stocktaking report
Children and AIDS will review achievements in the following four
areas:
preventing new infections among young people;
preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV;
providing paediatric treatment for children living with HIV;
protecting, caring for and supporting orphans and other children
affected by HIV and AIDS.
It will also highlight key steps to protect children from AIDS and
achieve an "AIDS-free generation." According to UNICEF, the report
will show that most countries have made important advances in
preventing the transmission of HIV from mother to child as well as in
paediatric treatment and support services. Nevertheless, it warns that
much more remains to be done in terms of HIV prevention and protection
of children affected by AIDS.
The full report will be made available on 30 November on the UNICEF
website: www.unicef.org
For more information on the World Aids Campaign,
http://www.worldaidscampaign.org/
For more information, see also UNAIDS' website.
http://www.unaids.org/en/default.asp
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Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth. - Mohandas Gandhi
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