AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases

World AIDS Day 2023World AIDS Day 2023

For World AIDS Day 2023, our aim is for countries and territories of the Region to introduce and scale up HIV self-testing as an additional way to increase HIV diagnosis.

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News

Strengthening strategic information for hepatitis elimination

13 December 2018 – National hepatitis programme managers, experts, and national and international civil society organizations from the Eastern Mediterranean Region convened in Casablanca, Morocco, from 10 to 11 December...

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In focus

Seizing the opportunity: Ending AIDS

With its concentrated HIV epidemic, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has the advantage of a relatively low HIV burden among the general population, as well as among children and adolescents. To respond to the issues posed by HIV in the region, considerable efforts have been invested at the...

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