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2008 High-Level Meeting on AIDS concludes in New York
11 07 2008 The 2008 United Nations High-level Meeting on AIDS came to a close on Wednesday evening, 11 June 2008. During the two day meeting representatives from member states reviewed progress made in the response to the AIDS epidemic and highlighted challenges still to overcome.
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2008 High-Level Meeting on AIDS
02 07 2008
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Second Independent Evaluation of UNAIDS
23 06 2008
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2008 UNGASS Country Progress Reports - East Asia
17 06 2008 2008 UNGASS Country Progress Reports, knowledge centre East Asia
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UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board Bureau
17 06 2008 The PCB Bureau coordinates the PCB's programme of the year, as well as undertaking various other functions as directed by the PCB.
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Children and orphans
17 06 2008 Every minute of every day, a child under the age of 15 becomes infected with HIV Children under 15 account for one in six AIDS-related deaths worldwide and one in seven new HIV infections â€' the vast majority through mother-to-child transmission, which can occur in the womb, during birth or through breastfeeding. Ninety percent of the more than 5 million children who have been infected were born in Africa.
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Migrants and mobile workers
17 06 2008 Migrants and mobile workers
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Peacekeeping operations and uniformed services
17 06 2008 Peacekeeping operations and uniformed services
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Refugees and internally displaced people
17 06 2008 Technical policies and key operational guidelines of the UNAIDS Programme on refugees and internally displaced persons recommend actions that governments and their international and civil society partners must take to respond to HIV in the context of refugees and IDP.
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Global Task Team
17 06 2008 The Global Task Team on improving AIDS coordination among multilateral donors and international donors
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Nutrition and food security
17 06 2008 Good nutrition plays an important role in maintaining the health of people living with HIV.
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Poland: Highlighting HIV and the family
06 06 2008 HIV was a major focus at this year’s World Family Summit, which took place in Warsaw, Poland, from November 26-29. While AIDS had been discussed at previous Summits, for the first time, the impact of HIV on families was incorporated into the declaration that resulted from the conference.
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UNAIDS/WHO working group on global HIV/AIDS and STI surveillance
06 06 2008 UNAIDS/WHO working group on global HIV/AIDS and STI surveillance
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7th meeting of the reference Group on HIV and human rights
06 06 2008 UNAIDS Reference group on HIV and Human Rights is only one of the means by which UNAIDS seeks to promote greater respect of human rights in the response to AIDS.
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Nursing and midwifery
06 06 2008 Nursing and midwifery
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Workplace
06 06 2008 Ministries of labour, employers, and workers and their representatives all have a significant stake in successful HIV prevention, care, treatment and mitigation measures. Illness removes skilled personnel from the workforce and deprives both the state and private sector of their knowledge and experience. The underlying and most important factor is that implementing measures in the workplace saves lives, maintains enterprise production and complements public health services.
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UNGASS Reporting FAQ
06 06 2008 Frequently asked questions about UNGASS reporting 2008.
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Religion and AIDS
06 06 2008 Faith-based organizations, often called FBOs, have been involved in the AIDS response since the earliest days of the epidemic and have often been among the first to respond, providing services, education and care. Religious communities, mosques, temples, churches, hospitals and clinics have reached out to provide support to those living with and affected by HIV. Their leadership has great influence in the lives of many people, and leaders speaking out responsibly about AIDS can make a powerful impact at both community and international level.
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World AIDS Campaign
06 06 2008 The World AIDS Campaign advocates for the fulfilment of the 2001 UN Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and subsequent policy commitments on AIDS under the banner "Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise”. It sets the theme for World AIDS Day, which in 2007 is “Leadership”.
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Religion and AIDS - UNAIDS strategic approach
06 06 2008 UNAIDS strategic approaches to working with faith-based organizations include: engaging each religion separately to define their specific response, promoting in reach and outreach, building partnerships, building capacity building of UNAIDS staff to work with faith-based organizations.
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Michael Ballack, Germany
03 06 2008 UNAIDS Special Representative page : Michael Ballack, Germany
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Addressing HIV and drug use in the Middle East and North Africa
03 06 2008 Injecting drug use is an increasingly important factor in the HIV epidemics of the Middle East and North Africa. To better address the issue, wide-ranging partnerships are needed to help increase HIV treatment, prevention and care programmes for drug users and their partners.
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Sub-Saharan Africa
03 06 2008 Sub-Saharan Africa has just over 10% of the world’s population, but is home to more than 60% of all people living with HIVâ€'25.8 million.
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UNAIDS and Brazil to strengthen technical cooperation on AIDS
31 05 2008 UNAIDS and the government of Brazil signed an agreement on Wednesday 21st of May, 2008 to continue their cooperation on providing technical support to countries in strengthening and scaling-up national responses to AIDS through the International Centre for Technical Cooperation on HIV/AIDS (ICTC).
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Tokyo Conference on Africa to spotlight AIDS
28 05 2008 Leaders from Africa, Asia, Europe and other parts of the world are in Yokohama for the 4th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD). The theme of this year’s meeting is “Towards a vibrant Africa” and will focus on mobilizing knowledge and resources to overcome the obstacles facing Africa as it moves its economy and social development agenda forward.
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