Elena Pinchuk AntiAIDS Foundation and UNAIDS award interactive responses to AIDS
Elena Pinchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation announced the winners of the “Social Media and Mobile Phones for HIV Prevention” competition on 18 January 2012. The project entries by South African non-profit organization Cell-Life and by Chinese internet portal Danlan were declared winners. More than 50 teams from 19 countries took part in the competition.
Tags: International partners call for accelerated access to voluntary medical male circumcision in eastern and southern Africa
From left to right: UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé, former president of Botswana, Mr Festus Gontebanye Mogae, Ambassador Eric Goosby, United States Global AIDS Coordinator call for accelerated access to voluntary medical male circumcision in eastern and southern Africa, at ICASA 2011. 5 December 2011.
Credit: UNAIDS/ P. Wiggers
ADDIS ABABA, 5 December 2011—The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) today launched a five-year action framework to accelerate the scale-up of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention. The framework—developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNAIDS, PEFPAR, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Bank in consultation with national Ministries of Health—calls for the immediate roll-out and expansion of VMMC services in 14 priority countries of eastern and southern Africa.
Magic Johnson celebrates anniversary
LOS ANGELES --Twenty years to the day after shocking and saddening the world by announcing his retirement from the Los Angeles Lakers after contracting the HIV virus, Earvin "Magic" Johnson had reason to smile Monday.
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Australia should lead a global HIV prevention revolution
The global fight against AIDS is at a crossroads. On the one hand we have exciting new scientific evidence which could dramatically reverse the pace of the HIV epidemic and prevent millions of new infections, sickness and deaths.
Robben Island Meeting Report
This is the written report of the Extraordinary Meeting of the Commission, held on Robben Island in South Africa on 3 May 2011. Robben Island was selected as the symbolic venue for the meeting as the one time prison of Nelson Mandela and other political activists during the fight against apartheid, and a site of exclusion and banishment since the sixteenth century. It represents the spirit of hope and collective action against overwhelming odds, a spirit much needed today in the fight against the global HIV pandemic. Conducting the meeting here offered a poignant message signifying the need for hope, continued struggle and the need for a revolutionary spirit to inspire the fight against HIV.
Robben Island Extraordinary Meeting
Cape Town, South Africa. May 2 to 4, 2011
This is a video of an Extraordinary Meeting of the Commission, held on Robben Island in South Africa on 3 May 2011. In addition to the meeting, Commissioners and invited experts participated in a series of events from 2-4 May, including a social media and mobile technology symposium at Stellenbosch University and a day of mobilization in support of HIV prevention in Khayelitsha on the outskirts of Cape Town.
The Elena Pinchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation launches competition to find top social media and mobile phone projects for HIV prevention
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The Elena Pinchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation has launched a competition to develop social media and mobile phone projects for HIV prevention. The competition will reward innovative, start-up projects to show proof of concept and the potential for future scale up to make a real impact on the HIV epidemic.
"To be more efficient with the AIDS messaging we have to use the same language and the same communication platforms as our target audience,” said Ms Pinchuk, founder and chair of the foundation. “Our goal today is to make modern technologies work for HIV prevention. Our dream is a future where AIDS is only mentioned in the past tense."
The Robben Island Message
A message of commitment to intensification of the AIDS response from the UNAIDS High Level Commission on HIV Prevention
We, members of the UNAIDS High Level Commission on HIV Prevention and leaders committed to the global AIDS response, met on 3rdMay 2011 on Robben Island off Cape Town, South Africa. This place symbolises the struggle for human rights and freedom from which we draw inspiration in our work to help end the global HIV epidemic.
We recognise the significance of the High Level Meeting on AIDS of the United Nations General Assembly, to be held in June 2011, as a critical opportunity to review global commitments to ending the HIV epidemic. We call on all the leaders there assembled to commit to a global HIV prevention revolution, and to guide the future global HIV response with strong commitments, bold actions and ambitious targets to ensure that every effort is made to stop new HIV infections.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu passes baton to a new generation of leaders in the AIDS response
Commitments made to transform the response to HIV at historic event on Robben Island
From left: Archbishop Desmond Tutu; Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS Executive Director; Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, South Africa Minister of Health.
Credit: UNAIDS/AFP Photo G. Guercia
Robben Island, South Africa, 3 May 2011—Archbishop Desmond Tutu has symbolically passed the baton to a new generation of young leaders focused on AIDS. The handover took place during an event held to inspire a transformation of the AIDS response which was convened by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) on Robben Island in South Africa.
HIV prevention in action: Grassroot Soccer mobilizes young people to stop the spread of HIV
UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé poses for a team photo with the young people taking part in the Skillz Street practice session at the Football for Hope Centre. Capetown, 4 May 2011.
Credit: UNAIDS/AFP Photo G. Guercia
During the meeting of the UNAIDS High Level Commission on HIV Prevention, which is taking place in South Africa this week, commissioners took time out to visit the Grassroot Soccer initiative in Capetown.
