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AIDS pandemic risks 'resurging globally' amid US funding halt: UN

AIDS pandemic risks 'resurging globally' amid US funding halt: UN

AIDS pandemic risks 'resurging globally' amid US funding halt: UN
Updated on Mar 24, 2025 09:04 PM IST
AFP |

Donald Trump's aid freeze could cause millions more AIDS deaths, says UN agency

US President Donald Trump ordered the bulk of US foreign assistance to be frozen for three months on returning to office in January.

Donald Trump's aid freeze could see additional deaths increasing by tenfold, said UNAIDS executive director. (AP)
Published on Feb 17, 2025 08:29 AM IST
AFP |

Zero Discrimination Day 2024: Date, history, significance and theme

Zero Discrimination Day 2024: Here's all you need to know about the date, history, significance and theme of Zero Discrimination Day this year

Zero Discrimination Day 2024: Date, history, significance and theme (Photo by Twitter/ronnieagabajr)
Published on Feb 29, 2024 04:50 PM IST
ByZarafshan Shiraz, New Delhi

World can end AIDS by 2030, says UN agency

The number of people on antiretroviral treatment worldwide rose almost fourfold, from 7.7 million in 2010 to 29.8 million in 2022. HIV treatment averted almost 21 million AIDS-related deaths between 1996 and 2022

A medical clinic officer examines an unidentified transgender and LGBTQ member, who is one of their patients at the Ice Breakers Uganda (IBU) clinic in Makindye that supports HIV/AIDS programmes and treatment for the LGBTQ community in Salaama road, Kampala, Uganda. (REUTERS)
Updated on Jul 13, 2023 11:07 PM IST

Zero Discrimination Day 2023: History, significance, theme

Zero Discrimination Day 2023: The ultimate aim of celebrating this day is to initiate a movement of solidarity on an international level to eradicate all forms of discrimination.

Every year, Zero Discrimination Day is celebrated under a particular theme.(Representative image)
Published on Mar 01, 2023 03:21 PM IST

World AIDS Day 2022: Date, history, significance and theme this year

World AIDS Day 2022: Here's all you need to know all about the date, history, significance and theme this year of World AIDS Day in lieu of the major global health issue of HIV

World AIDS Day 2022: Date, history, significance and theme this year (Twitter/lambton_ph)
Updated on Dec 01, 2022 08:10 AM IST
ByZarafshan Shiraz, Delhi

World Aids Day 2021: UN calls for ending inequalities to fight epidemic

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres also called upon the global community to commit themselves towards ending inequalities and ending Aids.

“End inequalities. End Aids. End pandemics.” is the UN's theme for World Aids Day this year. (Pixabay)
Published on Dec 01, 2021 07:19 AM IST
By, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

HIV infection rates not decreasing fast enough: UNAIDS

Ahead of World AIDS Day, the report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS said shortcomings in the pandemic response can also be seen in the fight against the decades-old disease.

HIV infection rates not decreasing fast enough to reach goal of eradicating AIDS by 2030: UNAIDS
Published on Nov 30, 2021 08:37 AM IST
AFP | | Posted by Krishna Priya Pallavi, Delhi

HIV ‘significant’ independent risk factor for severe, critical Covid-19: WHO

Nearly a quarter of the people (23.1% to be exact), who were infected with HIV and hospitalised for Covid-19, lost their lives, the global health body noted in the report.

For people living with HIV, the risk of severe or fatal Covid-19 infections was 30% more than those who are not infected by HIV, the WHO said.(Reuters)
Published on Jul 15, 2021 09:12 PM IST
By | Written by Srivatsan K C | Edited by , Hindustan Times, New Delhi
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