In the last ten years alone the Caribbean achieved a 61 per cent reduction in Aids-related deaths, according to a report, titled Focus on location and population: Fast track to end Aids by 2030, which was released from UNAids World yesterday. December 1 marks World Aids Day. The report said since ...

CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque met with UNAIDS Executive Director Mr. Michel Sedibe on the margins of the UN Meetings currently taking place in New York.  The discussions centered around continued collaboration between CARICOM and UNAIDS in the fight against AIDS....

UNAIDS is holding a second and final virtual consultation to review its 2016-2021 Strategy. The draft of the Strategy is available online for review and comment until 21st August. This consultation follows eight months of discussions at global and regional levels. UNAIDS hos...

VANCOUVER — Global partners in the Diagnostics Access Initiative have joined with Roche Diagnostics to announce a 35 percent reduction in the price for HIV early infant diagnostic technologies. The new access price is US$9.40 per test, including proprietary reagents and consumables associ...

The world has exceeded the AIDS targets of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6 and is on track to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).   ADDIS ABABA/GENEVA, 14 July 2015—The AIDS targets of MDG 6—halting and reversing the spread of HIV...

Combat HIV, AIDS and other diseases is United Nations Millennium Development goal number six.  A July 15 United Nations AIDS Programme report indicates that compared to other regions of the world, the Caribbean region is way ahead in the achievement of this goal. According to the report title...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Prime Minister  of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. Timothy Harris,  urged policy makers and practitioners in the Region to find the formula for scaling up investments in treatment and prevention that would&nb...

Caribbean Launch of UNAIDS- Lancet Commission Report Defeating AIDS-Achieving sustainable health Address by Prime Minister  St Kitts- Nevis, Hon Dr. Timothy Harris,  CARICOM Lead Head for Human Resources Health and HIV The UNAIDS-Lancet Report is indeed the high level ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     CARICOM and UNAIDS are hosting the Launch of the Report of the UNAIDS and Lancet Commission: Defeating AIDS- Advancing global health at The 36th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM on 3 July 2015  at the Hilton H...

SANTIAGO, Chile, Mar. 26, CMC – The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Latin America aimed at promoting and facilitating cooperation on matters related to the regional response to ...