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Thursday, 01 December 2011 00:00
Global HIV/AIDS Response: Epidemic Update and Health Sector Progress towards Universal Access - Progress Report. UNAIDS (2011)
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This documents the extraordinary progress achieved over the past decade in the health sector response to HIV. Access to evidence-informed HIV prevention, testing and counselling, treatment and care services in low- and middle-income countries has expanded dramatically. This progress demonstrates how countries can surmount seemingly intractable health and development challenges through commitment, investment and collective action. Download this publication |
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Friday, 31 December 2010 01:33
Towards Universal Access Scaling Up Priority HIV/AIDS Interventions in the Health Sector - Progress Report 2010. WHO, UNAIDS and UNICEF (2010)
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The HIV epidemic remains a major global public health challenge, with a total of 33.4 million people living with HIV worldwide. In 2008 alone, 2.7 million people were newly infected with HIV. Since 2006, when United Nations Member States committed to scaling up services and interventions towards the goal of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010, the WHO, UNICEF and UNAIDS Secretariat has sought to monitor key components of the health sector response to the HIV epidemic worldwide. This report, the fourth annual progress report published since 2006, assesses the situation at the end of 2009, one year before the universal access target. It compiles information from 183 of the 192 United Nations Member States, comprising 144 low- and middle-income countries and 39 high-income countries, on the status of the global health sector response to HIV, progress made and remaining challenges to achieving universal access. Download this publication |
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Wednesday, 30 December 2009 23:00
HIV and AIDS in Asia and the Pacific: A Review of Progress Towards Universal Access. ESCAP (2009)
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This background paper reviews progress made in the Asian and Pacific region in line with international commitments, with particular attention to the Universal Access targets developed for low and concentrated epidemic countries in Asia and the Pacific through regional and civil society consultations in 2006. Based on these findings, the paper also reviews the main challenges and identifies ways forward in scaling up the response to HIV. Download this publication |
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Sunday, 30 December 2007 23:00
Practical Guidelines for Intensifying HIV Prevention. UNAIDS (2007)
| hese Practical Guidelines for Intensifying HIV Prevention: Towards Universal Access are designed to provide policy makers and planners with practical guidance to tailor their national HIV prevention response so that they respond to the epidemic dynamics and social context of the country and populations who remain most vulnerable to and at risk of HIV infection. They have been developed in consultation with the UNAIDS cosponsors, international collaborating partners, government, civil society leaders and other experts. They build on Intensifying HIV Prevention: UNAIDS Policy Position Paper and the UNAIDS Action Plan on Intensifying HIV Prevention. Download this publication |
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Thursday, 31 December 2009 01:33
Towards Universal Access: Scaling Up Priority HIV/AIDS Interventions in the Health Sector - Progress Report 2009. WHO, UNAIDS and UNICEF (2009)
| This report also demonstrates that many low- and middle-income countries are still far from achieving universal access goals. More than 5 million people needing antiretroviral therapy do not have access to it. Far too many people access health services in late stages of HIV disease and are unable to receive maximum benefi ts from treatment. Recent surveys suggest that more than half of all people living with HIV remain unaware of their infection status. TB continues to be the leading cause of death among people living with HIV. Although countries are scaling up HIV diagnostic testing for infants, the referral of infants to care and treatment services remains a critical bottleneck. Download this publication |
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Wednesday, 30 December 2009 23:00
Technical Guide for Countries to Set Targets for Universal Access to HIV Prevention, Treatment and Care for Injecting Drug Users. WHO, UNODC and UNAIDS (2009)
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This document provides technical guidance to coun- tries on setting ambitious, but achievable national targets for scaling up towards universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care for inject- ing drug users (IDUs). Download this publication |
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 23:00
Scaling-up towards Universal Access Lao People’s Democratic Republic. National Committee for the Control of AIDS Lao PDR (2008)
| The Lao PDR started a participatory, consultative process to update its National Strategy and Action Plan for 2006-2010 in early 2005. Based on the mid-term review of the national strategy and action plan 2002-2005, stakeholder meetings at provincial and at central level provided the opportunity to discuss achievements, obstacles and opportunities to stabilize the HIV epidemic in Laos at the current low levels. The final consultation was held on 23 January 2006, and the strategy and action plan were endorsed by the National Committee for the Control of AIDS on 24 January 2006. At the same time the national policy was revised. Download this publication |
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Sunday, 30 December 2007 23:00
UNAIDS at Country Level Supporting Countries as They Move Towards Universal Access. UNAIDS (2007)
| In 2005 and early 2006, the landscape of the AIDS response shifted dramatically. Global pessimism over the unchecked spread of the disease in the developing world receded in the face of impressive efforts to expand access to treatment. Signs that prevention efforts were bearing fruit were seen in a growing number of countries from the hardest-hit regions, which started to report drops in HIV rates, particularly among the young. Download this publication |
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 23:00
Towards Universal Access: Scaling Up Priority HIV/AIDS Interventions in the Health Sector-Progress Report 2008. WHO, UNAIDS and UNICEF (2008)
| The objective of this report is to monitor global progress in the health sector as it scales up HIV prevention, treatment and care interventions towards universal access. The current report is the second in a series of annual progress reports developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in partnership with other international monitoring and reporting mechanisms to monitor the response of the health sector to HIV. It follows the 2007 progress report and previous “3 by 5” reports that charted the scaling up of antiretroviral therapy. Download this publication |
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Sunday, 30 December 2007 23:00
Financial Resources Required to Achieve Universal Access to HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support. UNAIDS (2007)
| The failure of half-measures to stem the worldwide expansion of HIV has led the global community to embrace the goal of moving towards universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010. The move towards universal access reflects a commitment to undertake an accelerated scale-up of evidence-informed measures in all regions of the world to address an epidemic that has inflicted history’s “single greatest reversal in human development” (Human Development Report, 2005). Download this publication |
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