COVID-19 took toll on AIDS fight, UNAIDS chief says; Pope calls for solidarity with victims
Chicago, USReuters New infections and deaths from HIV/AIDS may increase as the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted prevention measures, said UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima in an interview airing on Wednesday at the Reuters Next conference. ON WORLD AIDS DAY, POPE CALLS FOR RENEWED SOLIDARITY WITH VICTIMS Pope Francis on Wednesday called for a renewed solidarity […]
Quick facts: Ten facts to mark the 30th World AIDS Day
Thomson Reuters Foundation The global campaign to end AIDS has made significant strides but the epidemic remains one of the world’s leading public health challenges, affecting almost 37 million people. Campaigners say one of the biggest challenges in the fight to end AIDS is encouraging people to get tested and making them aware of treatment […]
POSTCARDS: ANGLICAN PRIEST IN RURAL KENYA WORKS TO CHANGE PERCEPTIONS ABOUT HIV/AIDS
Last week the communities across the globe marked World AIDS Day. FREDRICK NZWILI reports from Kenya, in an article first published by Religion News Service, about how one Anglican priest is working to change perceptions of HIV within the church…
41,000 adolescents died of AIDS in 2015 – UNICEF report
AIDS claimed the lives of 41,000 adolescents aged between 10 and 19 years during 2015 alone, according to a new report from UNICEF. The UN child-focused agency’s 7th stocktaking report, For Every Child, End AIDS – released to mark World AIDS Day on 1st December, also reveals that there were almost two million adolescents aged between […]
Christian leaders encouraged to get tested for HIV in bid to end stigma
Christians are among religious leaders being encouraged to get tested for HIV in an effort to encourage others to do so, under a campaign launched by the World Council of Churches on 1st December – World AIDS Day. The ‘Leading by Example: Religious Leaders and HIV Testing’ campaign, which is being launched at thw WCC’s […]
WORLD AIDS DAY: RATE OF INFECTIONS DECLINING BUT 33 MILLION CONTINUE TO LIVE WITH HIV
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ESSAY: AIDS – WHAT CAN WE DO?
The world recently paused to mark the 20th World AIDS Day. MAL FLETCHER takes a look at what we can do to help tackle what is a global tragedy…