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Towards an AIDS-free generation
The opportunity: An AIDS-free generation For the first time in the history of the HIV epidemic, the global community has accumulated the knowledge, experience and tools to achieve an AIDS-free generation. That means a generation in which all children are born free of HIV and remain so for the first two decades of ...
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Care and Support to Children Affected by AIDS
The “Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS” Global Campaign was initiated by the UN in November, 2005. With great attention to children and AIDS, the Government of China launched the Chinese Campaign on Children and AIDS in September, 2006. To facilitate experience sharing on the campaign among UN agencies, NGOs ...
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ADOLESCENTS UNDER THE RADAR IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC AIDS RESPONSE
Adolescence is a time of wondrous transformation. It is also a time of experimentation with sex and drugs, with potentially grave consequences for the spread of HIV. In Asia and the Pacific, one in seven new infections in 2014 occurred in 15-19 year olds. The region in 2014 accounted for almost one quarter of glob...
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New HIV infections among adolescents projected to rise by nearly 60 per cent by 2030 if progress stalls – UNICEF
NEW YORK/JOHANNESBURG 1 December 2016 – New HIV infections among adolescents are projected to rise from 250,000 in 2015 to nearly 400,000 annually by 2030 if progress in reaching adolescents stalls, according to a new report released by UNICEF today. "The world has made tremendous progress in the global effort to end AIDS, but the fight is far…
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In the heat of summer, condoms are made cool
Beijing, 8 August 2016 – Two days ahead of the Qixi Festival, or Chinese Valentine's day, a network of Chinese youth are calling for young people to make using condoms “cool” to protect themselves against HIV and other STIs. Adolescents face a multitude of challenges in sexual and reproductive health, including se...
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Global complacency threatens the lives of children and adolescents as world set to miss global AIDS target – UNICEF
NEW YORK/JOHANNESBURG, 01 December 2017 – In 2016, 120,000 children under the age of 14 died of AIDS related causes, and 18 children were infected with HIV every single hour. If current trends persist, there will be 3.5 million new adolescent HIV infections by 2030, according to projections from the 2017 UNICEF St...
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"It's about survival. It's about respect."
In the centre of Guangzhou, a sprawling industrial city of 12 million in Southern China, dedicated staff in a small clinic are working to protect some of the most vulnerable from HIV. Xiao Tian*, 19, started working here after using the services himself, but already knows this is the place for him. “It can be very difficult to work here sometimes…
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Asia-Pacific region facing a 'hidden epidemic' of HIV among adolescents, new report finds
BANGKOK, 30 November – The Asia-Pacific region is facing a ‘hidden epidemic' of HIV among adolescents. There were an estimated 50,000 new HIV infections among adolescents aged 15-19 in 2014, accounting for 15 per cent of new infections. There are now around 220,000 adolescents living with HIV in the region, with large cities like Bangkok, Hanoi…
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UN Commends Government of China for scaling up prevention services for HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B to pregnant women and their children nationally
Beijing, 17 September 2015 – Thousands of babies have been born free of the HIV virus thanks to effective interventions provided by the Government of China with technical support from UN agencies, according to a new Progress Report released this week on Progress report on China National Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV, Syphilis…
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Peer education saves parents and baby
“预防艾滋病病毒母婴传播项目救了我们一家” zh-cn-miya-09142015 Her children were dying, but Miya never imagined AIDS was involved. “My husband and I tried everything we could but ultimately two of our children passed away,” she says. It was a tragic story. “My eldest daughter died just before her second birthday. Our second child did not reach her sixth month,” said…
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One mother reaching out to other mothers
向更多感染艾滋病病毒的母亲伸出援手刻不容缓 zh-cn-juxiang-09142015 Juhar understands women who are too shy or boxed in by tradition to seek help. She also understands the difference one woman reaching out to them can make. “I have a healthy son thanks to Juhar, who insisted that I should go to the MCH hospital for an HIV test, get ARV treatment and be followed up till…