HIGHLIGHTS

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Ghana—engaged and ready to step up action on HIV

The Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé, has been welcomed in Ghana by the country’s senior leadership, which has declared that it is ready to step up engagement on HIV. Mr Sidibé met with the Minister of Health and talked about Ghana leading a revitalized AIDS response in western Africa, where progress urgently needs to be scaled up.
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President of Ghana commits to advance efforts to achieve 90–90–90

During a visit to Accra, Ghana, the Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé, met with the President, Nana Akufo-Addo, to encourage his leadership in the regional response to HIV.
Press Statement

UNAIDS calls for improved access to condoms for all who need them

On International Condom Day, UNAIDS is calling for countries to remove barriers that hinder access to, and the use of, condoms.
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Plan to increase community health workers endorsed

Economic experts and representatives of national AIDS programmes, health ministries and health professional organizations endorsed the creation of a global coalition of community health workers in UNAIDS-convened consultations in New York, United States of America, on 9 and 10 February.
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Experts meet to discuss human rights and health

Leading experts have come together at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy, to discuss how criminal laws can affect individual freedoms. The participants looked for ways to collaborate to end laws that impact upon health and human rights, towards supporting the goal of ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030.
Feature Story

Ponce de Leon Center: a people-centred approach in the heart of the United States HIV epidemic

Each year, more than 6000 people are served by the Ponce de Leon Center in Atlanta, United States of America. 
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ACT!2015 at ECOSOC Youth Forum

Youth advocates from Bulgaria, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, the Philippines, Uganda and Zimbabwe represented ACT!2015—a youth-led social action initiative supported by UNAIDS, the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the PACT—at the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum’s 2017 meeting. 
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Faith leaders mobilize to end AIDS in the Caribbean

Caribbean faith leaders met in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on 1 and 2 February to determine how they can support the Sustainable Development Goal agenda to end AIDS. The 55 faith leaders from 14 Caribbean countries representing the Bahá'í, Christian, Hindu, Muslim and Voodoo faiths were joined by regional and international development partners, including UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director Luiz Loures.
Feature Story

Championing health and humanity in Atlanta

During a two-day visit to Atlanta, United States of America, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé visited the Emergency Operations Center of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and interacted with CDC staff during a town hall meeting.
Feature Story

Reaching out: HIV awareness campaigns at high schools in Gabon

HIV awareness events have been held at high schools in Ndende and Fougamou, Gabon. Sponsored by the Gabon Ministry of Health, the French embassy, the Pan African Organisation against AIDS and UNAIDS, the events attracted more than 3000 students, 500 of whom found out their HIV status.

Strategy
At the end of 2015, the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board adopted a new strategy to end the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030.
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

"NOW IS THE TIME TO COME TOGETHER AGAIN AND FINISH WHAT WE STARTED. LET US SEIZE THIS OPPORTUNITY AND JOIN THE FAST-TRACK TOWARDS ENDING AIDS AS A PUBLIC HEALTH THREAT BY 2030."

MICHEL SIDIBÉ
UNAIDS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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