New York, US (PANA) - A new report from the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has shown a dramatic acceleration towards reaching the 2015 global targets on HIV, a UN statement said on Tuesday. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Ministers from member countries of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) have validated certain parts of the larger plan of action in their fight against HIV/AIDS, according to an official statement here. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The Thomas Sankara pan-African human rights association (APST), on Wednesday denounced the short supply of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs in Congo, describing the situation as dramatic for the country’s AIDS sufferers. Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - AIDS-related deaths in Eastern and Southern Africa are continuing to decline as access to antiretroviral therapy increases across the region, a report released Tuesday by the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Regional Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa shows. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Executive Director of UNAIDS Michel Sidibe has assured that Africa, which has the largest number of people living with AIDS, will, in the post-MDG era, commit to achieving zero deaths related to HIV/AIDS by ensuring better treatment and prevention. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended an earlier offering of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for people living with HIV, saying it will enable them to live longer, healthier lives, and substantially reduce the risk of transmitting HIV to others. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Heads of State, policymakers, scientists, advocates and private sector leaders will gather on 28-29 June in Lilongwe, Malawi, to explore how the AIDS response can be used to shape the future of global health, a UN statement said here Thursday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Over 40% of Nigerians who are carrying the virus that causes AIDS do not know their status, the Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Prof. John Idoko, has said. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Mr. Michel Sidibe, the Executive Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), has appointed South African scientist, Salim Abdool Karim, to chair a panel set up to provide advice on how new research and innovations can help tackle the epidemic. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - As a result of strong continental and national leadership, Africa has achieved significant gains in reducing the burden of AIDS, TB and Malaria as well as the social impact of the three diseases, the African Union (AU) Commission said in a report issued here Sunday. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi is to receive financial aid to the tune of US$62 million from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Executive Director of the UNAIDS, Mr. Michel Sidibé, has announced. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Over 200,000 people are expected to receive free medical care on Friday (10May) as Rotary International marks its ''Family Health Day'' in three African countries. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) – The executive director of the UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé, on Wednesday pledged US$62 million to help Burundi speed up the implementation of the national mother-child HIV/AIDS transmission programme for the next three years. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) – The Executive Director of the United Nations Agency for HIV/AIDS, Michel Sidibi, has begun a three-day working visit to Burundi, so says a communiqué from the UN Office in Burundi. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) – The US will give Burundi additional US$ 3.5 million this year to enable the African country continue its fight against HIV/AIDS and mother-to-child transmission of the disease, diplomatic sources said in Bujumbura, the Burundi capital. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Equatorial Guinea President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has donated US$30,000 to a New York-based South African AIDS activist and transatlantic rower, Victor Mooney, according to a statement issued in New York on Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's regulatory National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has begun a probe into the claim by a university professor to have discovered a herbal drug capable of curing AIDS. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The University of Benin in Nigeria's Mid-west Edo State has disowned the claim by one of its professors to have develop a herbal drug that could possible cure AIDS, setting the stage for another controversy over an AIDS cure claim in the country. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian university teacher, Prof. Isaiah Ibeh, has announced the development of a herbal drug that can possibly cure AIDS, the local media reported Wednesday. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Participants at the third ordinary session of the national committee for HIV/AIDS in Congo has decided to set up a national fund for HIV/AIDS, according to the final statement from the meeting held on Thursday in the capital Brazzaville. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The number of pregnant women affected with HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Congo is on the decrease, Congo’s Minister of Health and Population François Ibovi said here Thursday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – UN officials on Saturday mark the World AIDS Day with a call for building on recent successes and pressing ahead to get to zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths by 2015. Full text...

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Some 1.7 million people died of AIDS in 2011, 600,000 less than the figure for 2005, according to a statement by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to mark the World AIDS Day 2012, to be observed 1 Dec. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Only four African countries - Togo, Zambia, Botswana and Rwanda - have met their Abuja commitment to the fight against AIDS, anti-AIDS advocacy organisation, ONE, said in a press statement in Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - After three decades of the fight against AIDS, much progress has been made in controlling the disease and transitioning the global response from one of emergency to one of sustainability, AIDS advocacy body, ONE, said in a report released in Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Twenty persons, including former Minister of Health, Oumar Ibrahim Touré, Thursday appeared before the Court of Assizes in Bamako, Mali, facing charges of misappropriating funds earmarked for the fight against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, PANA reported. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa has unveiled an updated Regional HIV/AIDS Strategy that provides directions for implementing the WHO Global Health Sector Strategy (GHSS), adopted by the World Health Assembly in May 2011, taking into account key regional specificities. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The percentage of pregnant women who test positive to HIV in Angola fell from 9.8 in 2007 to 4.8 in 2011, due to the government's efforts in fighting the AIDS pandemic. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Francophone Africa is not as involved in the fight against AIDS as the rest of the continent, according to a report presented in Kinshasa, on the sidelines of the 14th Summit of the International Organization of la Francophonie (OIF) holding in the Congolese capital. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's health officials plan to install 700 additional condom dispensers in the most frequently visited public places before the end of the year, in an effort to reduce the transmission of HIV/AIDS among young people, sources in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, told PANA Sunday. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese government has taken delivery of a large batch of anti-retroviral drugs to sustain the treatment of people living with HIV/AIDS in the country, according to the Ministry of Health and Population. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – An HIV-infected person who begins antiretroviral treatment early can reduce the risk of transmission of the virus by up to 96 percent, a clinical director of the HIV Programme in the US, Dr. Paul Sax, told a meeting of medical officers involved in the management of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania here Wednesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 215,000 Nigerians die from AIDS every year, according to the Director-General of the country's National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Prof. John Idoko. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Health authorities in Tanzania intend to shift to a more targeted, science-driven approach that will maximize resources allocated to combat HIV/AIDS, a senior government official said here Thursday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Brazilian government will soon begin producing antiretrovirals (ARVs) and other pharmaceuticals at a factory in Mozambique, a statement from the Brazilian presidency, obtained by PANA here Saturday, said. Full text...

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued its first guidance to countries that are considering offering HIV medications, known as antiretrovirals (ARVs), to protect people who do not have the virus but who are at high risk of HIV infection. Full text...

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - More strategic use of antiretroviral HIV medications can significantly reduce the transmission of the virus, according to World Health Organization (WHO) proposals that will be presented at the 19th International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC, Sunday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Ahead of the 19th International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC, US, next week, the UN has launched a new report that shows that a record eight million people are Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) – The Town Council of the city of Paris on Tuesday granted 2.5 million euro to 20 AIDS associations in Africa. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Top UN officials have stressed the need to expand services and scale up resources to stem the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Full text...

Lome, Togo (PANA) - Executive Director of UNAIDS Michel Sidibé Wednesday called for the production of anti-retroviral drugs in Africa to make the life-saving medicines against AIDS accessible to patients and boost the medicines manufacturing sector on the continent. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), on Tuesday launched a campaign to help bring attention to the goal of ending new HIV infections Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – HIV experts, business leaders, aid agencies and ambassadors of 22 priority countries -- home to 90 percent of new HIV infections among children -- on Friday agreed in Washington, DC, that the surest way to halt the spread of the deadly virus from mother to child was through strategic innovations. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Executive Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Mr. Michel Sidibe, has called on all countries to implement new guidelines that encourage couples to go together for HIV testing to ascertain their status. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The prevalence rate of the HIV infection in Burundi schools has grown at an alarming rate, according to a recent survey conducted by UNESCO. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) have signed an agreement aimed at developing joint efforts to advance sustainable response to HIV/AIDS, health and development issues on the continent. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has stressed the importance of protecting the rights of individuals with HIV/AIDS, as well as of populations who are more vulnerable to the epidemic. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) on Friday welcomed new evidence which shows that anti-retroviral therapy could help prevent HIV infections. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has reiterated the need to provide women with access to both hormonal contraceptives and condoms to prevent unwanted pregnancies and HIV infection. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Africa, Dr Gomes Sambo, on Friday said that significant efforts had been made in Africa to curb HIV/AIDS. Full text...