HIV/AIDS

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Fashion designer joins hands with HIV positive women
An internationally-renowned fashion designer Bibi Russell, UNDP, and Modern Dress Sewing Factory (MDSF), an all-women business subsidiary of the network of people living with HIV in Cambodia jointly launched a new international designer label titled “Bibi for WE”. Under this brand, MDSF will produce and market a range of bags designed by Bibi Russell. Each business under the MDSF is marketed under the common “WE” brand (Women Empowered), with the aim to gain market access for their products and services both locally and internationally. more...

UNDP’s Response to AIDS
This document provides an overview of UNDP’s response to the AIDS epidemic with examples of action at national level. The document is an overview of UNDP’s work addressing dimensions of AIDS relating to development planning and mainstreaming; governance of AIDS responses; and law, human rights and gender, including sexual minorities. English | French | Spanish

Essential Actions on Gender and AIDS
This pamphlet outlines a series of steps and processes for country-level stakeholders to accelerate and expand action on gender equality in order to strengthen national responses to AIDS. It emphasizes the importance of setting gender and AIDS programme priorities and stresses that these priorities will vary according to the configuration of a country’s epidemic and its local contexts. English | Spanish

UNDP and UNAIDS Policy brief on Criminalization of HIV Transmission
UNDP and UNAIDS have developed a policy brief on criminalization of HIV Transmission. The policy brief urges governments to limit criminalization of HIV to cases of intentional transmission. It advocates for non application of criminal law to cases where there is no significant risk of transmission. It further explains cases where criminal law should not be applied.

The XVII International AIDS Conference
The XVII International AIDS Conference was held in México City from 3-8 August 2008. This was the first International AIDS Conference held in Latin America, and it drew more than 25,000 participants from around the world. The conference marked the midpoint to the 2010 global target on Universal Access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. more...

Report highlights successes in the response to AIDS
UNDP Administrator Kemal Dervis joined Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS and Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund today to launch a new report on the global AIDS epidemic. “Responding to AIDS is an important Millennium Development Goal which also has a direct impact on meeting the other Goals by 2015,” said UNDP Administrator Kemal Dervis. “The progress we make in addressing AIDS will contribute to our efforts to reducing poverty and child mortality, and to improving nutrition and maternal health. At the same time, progress towards the other Goals, such as tackling gender inequality and promoting education, is required if we are to halt and reverse the spread of AIDS.”