Press Releases/Statements |
‘The HIV / Culture Confluence: Changing the River’s Flow - Possibilities and Challenges’
A Regional Conference on HIV Prevention |
| Pretoria, South Africa, 03 March February 2010 (SAfAIDS Media) – Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS), with support from the MDG3 Fund, will be hosting a regional conference on the strategic linkages between HIV, gender and culture. |
| Global Campaign for Microbicides Statement of Support for MDP301 Trial |
| 02 March 2010-(Global Campaign for Microbicides of support for MDP301 Trial Global Camapign for Microbicides)- The recent attention to microbicides clinical testing in Zambia prompted us to confirm our commitment to the HIV-prevention research and development field and to encourage others to join us in supporting next-generation products in the pipeline. |
| Television drama on multiple relationships on ZBC TV soon |
| Harare, Zimbabwe, 15 February 2010-(ACTION)- A new television drama exposing the complexities around multiple relationships and love in a time of HIV and AIDS, will be aired on the ZBC TV soon. The television drama was launched through a “march” last week. |
| UNAIDS Executive Director vists high HIV burdened countries in southern Africa |
| The Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Mr Michel Sidibe, will be embarking on a multi-country visit to three of the hyper-endemic countries in Southern Africa. The visit will commence in Swaziland from 14 – 16 February 2010, Botswana on 17 -18 February 2010 and South Africa 19 February 2010. |
PLHIV geared to have their voices included in the Constitution making process |
Zimbabwe – Harare – 26 January 2010 (SAfAIDS) - As the nation gears itself for the constitutional reform process, the Zimbabwe National Network of People Living with HIV (ZNNP+) with technical support from the Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS) has embarked on a national consultative process that seeks to ensure that the concerns of people living with HIV (PLHIV), particularly women and young people, are included in the constitution making process. |
UN Secretary-General applauds the removal of entry restrictions based on HIV status by United States of America and Republic of Korea |
GENEVA - WASHINGTON DC- 4 January 2010 - UNAIDS strongly welcomes the elimination of travel restrictions based on HIV status by the Republic of Korea, effective 1 January 2010. It also commends the United States for full implementation of the final rule that removes entry restrictions which means that travellers living with HIV can freely enter the United States of America as of today.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon congratulated President Lee Myung-bak on the Republic of Korea’s decision. “I applaud President Lee for his country’s leadership in ending restrictions towards people living with HIV that have no public health benefit,” said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. |
| New UNAIDS Data released: 2009 AIDS Epidemic Update UNAIDS |
| GENEVA / SHANGHAI, 15 December 2009 – According to new data in the 2009 AIDS epidemic update, new HIV infections have been reduced by 17% over the past eight years. Since 2001, when the United Nations Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS was signed, the number of new infections in sub-Saharan Africa is approximately 15% lower, which is about 400,000 fewer infections in 2008. |
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Harare Zimbabwe-14 December 2009-(SAfAIDS)-The National Partnership Platform, an information, dialogue and advocacy platform on HIV and TB in Zimbabwe will tomorrow (15 December 2009) host a Discussion Forum to explore the barriers to achieving universal access to HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment and care by 2010. |
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| Harare, December 9, 2009 -The Emmy Award winning actress and Population Services International (PSI) Ambassador, Debra Messing, is currently visiting Zimbabwe, and will attend the ninth presentation of the Auxillia Chimusoro HIV and AIDS Awards on December 10. |
UNIVERSAL ACCESS WON’T BE ACHIEVED IF WOMEN DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO SERVICES |
In response to the World AIDS Day 2009 theme 'Universal Access and Human Rights', the Women WON’T wait. End HIV and Violence Against Women. NOW Campaign urges all to advocate for an essential package of services to be part of the integrated response to HIV and violence against women and girls. |
MESSAGE ON THE INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION
OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN |
| In the ten years since the General Assembly designated 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the circle of engagement has widened. More groups and individuals, including men and boys, are getting involved in efforts to prevent and address this heinous violation of women’s human rights. There has also been significant progress at the national level as many countries have adopted laws and comprehensive action plans. |
Murewa community launches OneLove Campaign |
Murewa district in Mashonaland East province, is launching an HIV prevention campaign called OneLove and this becomes the first time that the programme is being launched at community level in Zimbabwe. |
| UNIFEM Launches Global Action Platform to End Violence against Women |
| Nairobi, Kenya — 11 November 2009 - United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) today launched the global advocacy initiative Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women, which will stimulate, count and showcase actions on ending violence against women. The innovative platform will spotlight global efforts and demonstrate the groundswell of support and actions on the issue. |
SAfAIDS launches HIV information kiosk |
Harare - 13 October 2009 - Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS) in partnership with the Matabeleland AIDS Council (MAC) will, on Thursday, the 15th of October, launch an HIV information kiosk in Plumtree to respond to the HIV information needs of people in Matabeleland South province. |
“Taking Forward the National Community Home Based Care Programme in Zimbabwe” |
Harare, Zimbabwe - 07 October 2009 - Southern African HIV and AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS) in collaboration with Irish Aid and Zimbabwe AIDS Network (ZAN) will next week hold a meeting for policy makers, donors, international organisations and practitioners in the field of community home-based care, to look at the successes and challenges of home-based care in Zimbabwe over the past 10 years. |
| VOICE Study, a major HIV prevention trial for women, is launched in Zimbabwe |
Testing ARVs as prevention instead of treatment
PITTSBURGH -16 September 2009 – Microbicide Trial Network – Hopeful that some of the same antiretroviral (ARV) drugs used to treat HIV infection can also prevent it, researchers from the Microbicide Trials Network have enrolled the first participants into a new, large-scale clinical trial testing two approaches of the strategy in women. |
| SAfAIDS to hold meeting on sexual health rights in Malawi |
| Pretoria, South Africa -21 August 2009- (SAfAIDS)- Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS) will next week hold a meeting for government, civil society and the private sector to accelerate the implementation of the Maputo Plan of Action in Malawi |
| SAfAIDS hosts MCP Discussion Forum |
| Harare, Zimbabwe, 13 August 2009-Southern African HIV and AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS) will next week host a discussion forum (DF) for government, civil society, the media and traditional leaders under the theme “Addressing Multiple Concurrent Partnerships.” |
| Farm workers to Benefit from new HIV Prevention and Care project |
| SOUTH AFRICA –13 August 2009- (IOM)-IOM and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) are this week to launch Ripfumelo, a new programme in South Africa focusing on HIV prevention and care for commercial farm workers in three districts in Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces. |
| SAfAIDS holds workshop to accelerate Maputo Plan in Zim |
| Harare, Zimbabwe-27 July 2009- Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS) will this week hold a meeting for government, civil society and the private sector to accelerate the implementation of the Maputo Plan of Action in Zimbabwe. |
| SPEECH STEPHEN LEWIS AT IAS OPENING |
In my younger days, decades upon decades ago, we were consumed by the
threat of nuclear annihilation. The forces of darkness, East and West,
seemed in the ascendance. The Doomsday clock inched its way to
midnight. |
| Zimbabwe holds Annual Candlelight Memorial |
| Zimbabwe AIDS Network (ZAN) and its network members will on Thursday the 2nd of July 2009, join the nation and world at large in commemorating the 26th anniversary of the Annual International Candlelight Memorial to be held at Town House, City of Harare, from 4 pm - 7pm. |
| UN Secretary-General, the World AIDS Campaign and UNAIDS launch World
AIDS Day theme ‘Universal Access and Human Rights’ |
New York- June 18th – Ahead of this year’s World AIDS Day, the United
Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the World AIDS Campaign and the
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) have come together
to announce the theme of “Universal Access and Human Rights” |
| Media Statement: Day of the African Child |
| Protect the African Child! Protect Africa's Future! |
| International Day of the African Child |
| Zambia, 15 June 2009-(Tisunge Ana Athu Akazi Coalition TAAAC)-In Soweto, South Africa, thousands of black school children took to the streets in 1976, in a march more than half a mile long, to protest the inferior quality of their education and to demand their right to be taught in their own language. Hundreds of young boys and girls were shot down; and in the two weeks of protest that followed, more than a hundred people were killed and more than a thousand were injured. |
| African Youth AIDS activists meet in Nairobi to raise their voice around universal access to treatment, care and support |
| Nairobi- 8 June 2009- Youth AIDS activists from different parts of Africa and the Middle East met on 30 May 2009 to discuss issues affecting young people’s access to prevention, treatment, care and support for HIV and AIDS. This meeting leads in to the African Campaigners meeting organised by the World AIDS Campaign (WAC) and African partners in Nairobi, Kenya. |
| Ground breaking outcomes from Nairobi meeting of African AIDS community leaders |
| Nairobi- 8 June 2009- At its’ conclusion, the key planning meeting for HIV and AIDS campaigners from around Africa has reached some clear conclusions and made some powerful calls. |
| One Love Launch Zambia |
| JOHANNESBURG, Zambia- 4 June 2009- KC Forum-The National AIDS Council, the ministry of Health, Health communications partnership Zambia, Zambia centre for communications programmes, Society for family Health with support from the United States Agency for international development (USAID), UNFPA and Soul City are developing a national multimedia campaign to prevent HIV transmission through multiple concurrent partnerships in Zambia. |
| UNAIDS calls for a virtual elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV by 2015 |
| GENEVA, 21 May 2009 – During the week of the World Health Assembly, UNAIDS’ executive director met with more than 80 Health Ministers to underscore UNAIDS’ commitment in supporting countries to achieve their universal access goals. |
| World AIDS Orphans Day 2009 |
| World AIDS Orphans Day, observed May 7 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of issues affecting millions of children orphaned by AIDS. But not so many people are aware of this grassroots campaign meant to draw attention and to advocate on behalf of AIDS orphans. |
| Gates Foundation Invests in 81 Unconventional Global Health Research Projects |
| SEATTLE – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced 81 grants of US$100,000 each to explore bold and largely unproven ways to improve health in developing countries. The grants were awarded to researchers in 17 countries through the foundation’s Grand Challenges Explorations initiative, which aims to develop a pipeline of creative ideas that could change the face of global heath. |
International Women’s Day
8 March 2009 |
Message of Thoraya Ahmed Obaid
UNFPA Executive Director
Today on International Women’s Day, let us unite to end violence against women and girls.
Whether it is human trafficking, domestic violence, crimes committed in the name of honour or passion, child marriage, female genital mutilation/cutting, or sexual violence, which in many conflict situations has reached alarming proportions, violence against women and girls constitutes a shameful crime that is too often shrouded in silence and too seldom punished. |
| New local TV and radio HIV series launched SAfAIDS |
| Harare, Zimbabwe (SAfAIDS MRD) 5 February 2009-Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS), in collaboration with Population Services International (PSI), is proud to announce the launch of a new 26 – programme radio and television series, ‘Positive Talk’, which will air for the next 6 months on Zimbabwe’s national broadcast stations. The weekly series will air every Sunday evening between 7.30 pm and 8 pm, on ZBC TV, and every Tuesday between 6.30 pm and 7 pm, on Radio Zimbabwe. |
| National HIV Treatment Literacy Sensitisation Meeting for Policy Makers |
| Harare, Zimbabwe – Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS) will on Wednesday 4 February 2009, host a sensitisation workshop for national policy makers and leaders to discuss issues around treatment literacy in Zimbabwe. The event will take place at the Rainbow Towers Hotel, Jacaranda Room, from 8.30am to 4.30 pm. |
NO WOMAN SHOULD DIE GIVING LIFE:
UNFPA WELCOMES NEW UNICEF REPORT ON MATERNAL AND NEWBORN HEALTH |
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 16 January 2009—Every minute somewhere in the world a woman dies in pregnancy or childbirth, and the women in the world’s least developed countries are 300 times more likely to die in childbirth than those in developed countries. |
| 2010 Soccer World Cup Provides Platform for Major New African HIV-Prevention Initiative |
| New continent-wide HIV-prevention initiative harnessing Africa’s passion for soccer combines a sustained media campaign with community-level outreach and education programs using soccer to promote healthy living and responsible choices among African youth. |
| MESSAGE ON THE INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, 25 NOVEMBER 2008 |
| Across the world, in countries rich and poor, women are being beaten, trafficked, raped and killed. These human rights violations do more than harm individuals; they undermine the development, peace and security of entire societies. |
| National Policy Dialogue Seeks to Promote Women’s Rights |
| Harare, ZIMBABWE – Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS), with support from Oxfam Canada, is hosting a National Policy Dialogue aimed at highlighting the linkage between culture, gender based violence (GBV), HIV, AIDS and women’s rights. |
| World AIDS Day marks 20th anniversary of solidarity |
(By Sara Speicher) For Eric Sawyer, the late 1980s was a “war time situation”. “People with AIDS were fighting for their lives and for their friends”, says Sawyer, an AIDS activist and co-founder of ACT UP New York. By 1988, seven years after the first case of AIDS was reported, AIDS was causing more deaths in the US then there were in the Vietnam War, and between 5 and 10 million people were estimated to be infected with HIV around the world. Yet governments, media and society in general were not giving AIDS adequate attention. So, “people with AIDS had to literally take to the streets and block traffic and take over government buildings”, Sawyer recalls. |
| Broadcasting Ammendments SA |
| JOHANNESBURG, Today (23 october 2008) the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Communications will again be deliberating on the Broadcasting Amendment Bill. The ‘Save our SABC’ Coalition is sending a letter to the Chair of the Committee, Ismail Vadi to object to certain proposals to amend the Bill suggested by the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) |
| Gates Foundation Invests in 104 Novel Ideas for Global Health |
| BANGKOK – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced 104 grants to explore bold and largely unproven ways to improve global health. The grants of US$100,000 each will be made to scientists from 22 countries and five continents. They mark the first round of funding from Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to help lower the barriers for testing innovative ideas in global health. |
| A SAYWHAT Conference Statement on the State of Female Students’ Sexual, Reproductive Health and Rights in Zimbabwean Tertiary Institutions |
| The Students And Youths Working on reproductive Health Action Team (SAYWHAT) is a civil society organisation formed in December 2003 after realizing the absence of a platform where students can meet to discuss their reproductive health in order to take up their challenges with policy-makers while at the same time taking responsibility for their own health |
| New SA Health Minister addresses media |
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| Zimbabwe AIDS Civil Society Organisations Seek to Build on Success |
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SADC HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT SIGN THE SADC PROTOCOL ON GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT |
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SADC Leaders urged to adopt the SADC Gender & Development Protocol |
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SAfAIDS Launches Children’s Antiretroviral Therapy
Literacy Toolkit for Communities |
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Zimbabwe Caregivers : On the Front line of HIV Care |
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Malawi: New Study Holds Great Promise for Saving Lives by Significantly Reducing Transmission of HIV via Breast-Feeding |
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‘HIV and AIDS and TB Co-infection: A Deadly Marriage’ |
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UNAIDS announces winners of Red Ribbon Award 2008 |
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Statement at the UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS – Dr Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director |
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Progress in AIDS response but still a long way from meeting global targets |
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KEEP YOUR PROMISE
END HIV AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. NOW! |
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Common Position on Involvement and Participation of Civil Society in Universal Access processes in Southern Africa
May 26th, 2008 |
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African Civil Society position paper on HIV and AIDS in Africa:
Urgent need to meet the universal access targets |
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| UNAIDS Statement on Travel Restrictions |
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UNAIDS governing board meeting closes in Chiang Mai |
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| THE GLOBAL FUND OPENS ONLINE DISCUSSION FORUM |
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| Anniversary of AU Abuja 15% Health Commitment |
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Health Day |
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| The impact of climate change on human health - Statement by WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan |
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Press Release World TB Day |
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STATEMENT ON THE COMMEMORATION OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY BY THE SAfAIDS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MRS LOIS CHINGANDU |
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Statement at the Commission on the Status of Women Message by Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director, UNFPA |
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Trial Shows Anti-HIV Microbicide Is Safe, but Does Not Prove It Effective Research Advances HIV Prevention Field |
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Media Statement – African Union Summit |
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Award for Excellence in Reporting on Tuberculosis |
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| NGOs demand that SADC leaders prove commitment to gender equality Southern African Gender Protocol Alliance |
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Media Statement - World AIDS Day, December 1, 2007 |
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| UNAIDS press release on Global AIDS epidemic update 2007 |
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Cultural Practices and HIV and AIDS |
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Accelerating-Prevention to minimise HIV infection
Lois Chingandu, Executive Director - SAfAIDS
Opening remarks by UNAIDS on the Launch of the Accelerating-Prevention eForum
Mark Stirling, Director - UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Eastern and southern Africa
International Women's Day, 2007
Lois Chingandu, Executive Director - SAfAIDS
Speech to the 19th Meeting of UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board
Lusaka, 6 December 2006,
Dr Peter Piot - UNAIDS Executive Director
AIDS in the next 25 years: XVI International AIDS Conference 2006
Dr Peter Piot -
UNAIDS Executive Director
SAfAIDS Statement on World AIDS Day 2006 - Have we kept the promise?
Lois Chingandu, Exectuve Director - SAfAIDS
The United Nations (UN) Secretary General's Message on the occasion of World AIDS Day. 1 December 2006
Kofi Anan, UN Secretary General
People not getting the treatment they need to stay alive - newer AIDS drugs are unaffordable and unavailable, November 2006
Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF)
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