ABUJA - Youth leaders from around the world today presented a set of youth-defined recommendations that will guide the UNAIDS Secretariat’s work on HIV and young people through 2015. The recommendations were received by UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé at an event in the Paiko community near Abuja, organized together with Nigerian youth l

Message of Michelle Bachelet Executive Director of UN Women on International Women’s Day 2012 Posted on March 5 2012 | Speeches and Statements More on IWD 2012 » More coverage and photos of Ms. Bachelet’s activities at CSW56 » International Women’s Day 2012 “Empower rural women: End hunger and poverty” This International Women’s Day,

Source: http://hivthisweek.unaids.org/post/faith-based-responses Fellow Colleague!!! Still in the happy mood of having presented the first ever CrowdSourced document on behalf of young people to UNAIDS in the way HIV/AIDS should be addressed for young people, Please read below; Pentecostal fervour has rapidly spread throughout central and southern

Please see UNICEF's latest report card on Adolescents. Link is below-- LMF http://www.unicef.org/adolescence/files/PFC2011_lowres.pdf

SOURCE:* New York Times* AUTHOR: Donald McNeil Jr. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/science/charm-offensive-is-unaids-chiefs-strategy.html Fellow Advocate! Read the wonderful story of the UNAIDS Executive Director and a personal friend. ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ---- Shortly after Michel Sidibe became executive

SOURCE:* Wall Street Journal* AUTHOR: Amy Marcus http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203961204577267813686809798.html Colleague! Scientists are scrutinizing a new approach to preventing the spread of HIV that involves healthy people taking drugs to keep them from being infected by partners with the virus that causes AIDS... The Food and D

Dear all, I wanted to share with you this recent important report telling stories about women living with HIV in MENA region, the report was launched Thursday July 21st in Cairo, you can find below the link to the feature story on the UNAIDS website as well as the link to the report, I encourage you to read it. In “Standing Up, Speaking Out”, a

AUTHORS: Pettifor A, McCoy SI, Padian N http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)60036-1/fulltext Fellow Advocate; Between a quarter and a third of young women in sub-Saharan Africa are infected with HIV by the time they reach their early 20s. Structural factors such as poor education, poverty, and gender and power inequali

A new Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) vaccine, Teravac-HIV-1, which has successfully been tested on mice and set to be tried out on humans, has been unveiled in Cuba. According to the head of the biotech research team that designed the vaccine, Enrique Iglesias, Tervac-HIV-1 was developed from a recombinant protein with virus-like partic

SOURCE:* Washington Post* AUTHORS: Craig Timberg, Daniel Halperin http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-smarter-way-to-fight-aids-in-africa/2012/02/17/gIQAEpkd1R_story.html Fellow Colleague! I want to believe you are doing fine and better? How is the week going already? Optimism has never run higher that the AIDS epidemic can be defeated. Effect