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WHO and HIV/AIDS

As the directing and coordinating authority on international health, the World Health Organization (WHO) takes the lead within the UN system in the global health sector response to HIV/AIDS. The HIV/AIDS Department provides evidence-based, technical support to WHO Member States to help them scale up treatment, care and prevention services as well as drugs and diagnostics supply to ensure a comprehensive and sustainable response to HIV/AIDS.

Dispatch from Lithuania
Injecting drug use is the primary route of HIV transmission in eastern Europe and central Asia. An estimated 3.7 million people in the region currently inject drugs, and roughly one in four are believed to be HIV-infected. While HIV prevention coverage for injecting drug users remains low in the region, the WHO supported Knowledge Hubs represent progress in the expansion of harm reduction services.
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2 February 2010
WHO has released PMTCT strategic vision 2010-2015: preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV to reach the UNGASS and Millennium Development Goals.
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25-27 January 2010
WHO hosted a meeting on preventive therapy and intensified case finding for TB in people living with HIV.
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22 January 2010
WHO has released Country experiences in implementing patient monitoring systems for HIV care and antiretroviral therapy in Ethiopia, Guyana and India.
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22 December 2009
WHO-SEARO has released HIV/AIDS in the South-East Asia Region, 2009.
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14 December 2009
WHO and UNAIDS release a statement on the results of a vaginal microbicide trial (MDP301).
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1 December 2009
UNICEF and its partners, including WHO, launch Children and HIV/AIDS: fourth stocktaking report.
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30 November 2009
WHO has released new recommendations on treatment, prevention and infant feeding in the context of HIV, based on the latest scientific evidence.
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24 November 2009
An eight-year trend shows new HIV infections down by 17% globally, according to the UNAIDS/WHO report 2009 AIDS epidemic update.
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9 November 2009
A new WHO report addresses women and HIV.
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2-4 November 2009
WHO hosted a consultation on antiretroviral therapy for HIV prevention.
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15 October 2009
An HIVDR laboratory training package has been developed by the WHO HIV/AIDS Department HIV drug resistance team in collaboration with the CDC Atlanta drug resistance laboratory.

30 September 2009
More than 4 million people in low- and middle-income countries were receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) at the close of 2008.
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1 Rapid advice: adults and adolescents
2 Rapid advice: pregnant women and infants
3 Data and statistics
4 Towards universal access: scaling up priority HIV/AIDS interventions in the health sector. Progress report September 2009
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6 HIV/AIDS publications
7 HIV/AIDS country information
8 About us
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Dispatch from Lithuania
Vilnius Centre for Addictive Disorders, Lithuania


KEY PUBLICATIONS

New WHO HIV recommendations
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Towards universal access: scaling up priority HIV/AIDS interventions in the health sector. Progress report, September 2009
Towards universal access
Scaling up priority HIV/AIDS interventions in the health sector
Progress report, September 2009

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Priority interventions
HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector
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Who we are
The HIV/AIDS Programme at WHO
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