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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.

Antiretroviral therapy for HIV prevention
WHO hosted a consultation on antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV prevention on 2-4 November 2009. This meeting followed the publication in The Lancet of a mathematical model on ART for HIV prevention developed by WHO scientists.


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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 September 2009
WHO Department of Gender, Women and Health has released Integrating gender into HIV/AIDS programmes in the health sector.
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6 August 2009
The HIV drug resistance section of the website is now available in French.

22 July 2009
Evidence shows new drug combination dramatically reduces mother-to child transmission of HIV during breastfeeding.
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22 July 2009
New global and regional ART access figures have been released.
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7 July 2009
The July issue of the WHO Bulletin includes an editorial on ART for HIV prevention authored by HIV/AIDS Department.

18 June 2009
Timelines for guideline revisions for MTCT and ART have been released.

10-14 June 2009
WHO participated in the 2009 HIV/AIDS implementers' meeting in Windhoek, Namibia.
Plenary talk: Dr Kevin De Cock
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3 June 2009
HIV testing, treatment and prevention: generic tools for operational research is now available online.
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6 May 2009
WHO releases a statement on Influenza A(H1N1) and HIV.
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KEY PUBLICATIONS

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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