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Our mission
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The regional HIV/AIDS/STI
programme aims to develop national capacity in the
health sector to strengthen and scale up all aspects
of prevention, treatment and care. It works closely
with national governments, academic institutions,
civil society and international partner
organizations to:
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increase national
political commitment and leadership in HIV/AIDS
programmes within the health sector,
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link these
programmes to the main health and development
plans of the countries,
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strengthen
programme planning, management, monitoring and
evaluation, and
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strengthen national
capacity in the delivery of interventions and
services.
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World AIDS campaign 2011
 Stigma
and discrimination in health care settings
Stigma and
discrimination against people living with HIV and those at
increased risk of HIV transmission still exist to varying
degrees across the Region. They remain massive barriers to
people accessing health care services. They are also major
impediments when it comes to encouraging stigmatized
population groups to seek and access health services and
adhere to health interventions.
While health
care providers have the responsibility to comply with
standard precautions and equal treatment of all patients,
decision-makers in health also have the responsibility to
make prevention supplies and post-exposure prophylaxis
medicines available to health care workers. Regardless of an
individual’s role in the health care system and the agencies
that support it, everyone has the power to Take the Lead to
Stop AIDS.
Download the World AIDS Day regional material
Brochure:
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Regional
Director’s message:
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Regional Director’s recorded video message:
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Combating
AIDS in Gulf Cooperation Council member states
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From UNAIDS Website: The
Gulf
Cooperation Council (GCC) countries met 16-18 April 2011 in
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia calling for a collaborative approach to
effectively respond to HIV/AIDS. Participating countries
included the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman,
Qatar and Kuwait. Amongst the topics of discussion were:
migrant workers, human rights, stigma, and civil society. In
his address to the Saudi Ministry of Health Initiative to Fight
AIDS, Dr. Hussein A. Gezairy, Regional Director of WHO/EMRO,
spoke of the possible increase in HIV incidence rates in
marginalized populations resulting from their vulnerability. He
recommended introduction and expansion of prevention, care and
treatment and the need to adapt surveillance to these high
priority populations. The meeting concluded with the writing of
the draft Riyadh Charter, which includes ten recommendations for
GCC countries to scale up their engagement and response.
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Information Resources
Evidence for
Action Series
The following policy briefs on HIV/AIDS and injecting drug users
are now available in French and Arabic. To view the original
English versions, please visit the WHO headquarters
Evidence for Action Series page.
Reduction of HIV transmission through outreach:
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Provision of sterile injecting equipment to reduce HIV
transmission:
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Reduction of HIV transmission through drug-dependence
treatment:
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News
13 April 2011011
From UNAIDS website: The MENA region is ready to scale up harm
reduction services in its response to AIDS. Injecting drug drug
use and the growing HIV epidemic in the MENA region were the
focus of the Harm Reduction 2011 conference that took place in
Beirut, Lebanon from 3-7 april 2011. Topics of discussion
included, but were not limited to: a) the existence of
legislation in the region that hinders the implementation of
harm reduction programmes, b) models of successful harm
reduction programmes, and c) funding.
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January 2011
From UNAIDS website: South Sudan addresses concerns of
HIV-affected refugees. For the past two decades, Mary Kiden
resided in Northwest Uganda, where she has received
antiretroviral therapy. She has finally decided that she is
able to move back to her home in South Sudan due to improved
access to drugs, medical care, support and acceptance buoyed by
support from the WHO, UNHCR, the Sudanese Ministry of Health and
the Loving Club Association.
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2010
The progress report titled "Towards
universal access: Scaling up priority HIV/AIDS interventions
in the health sector," written by WHO, UNAIDS and UNICEF, is
now available. This publication reviews the progress made
in 2009 in scaling up access to selected health sector
interventions for HIV prevention, treatment and care in low-
and middle-income countries. Unmet 2010 targets for
universal access are also discussed as well as funding
concerns and broader systemic issues such as supply chains
and human resource capacity.
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Archived feature stories
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New HIV recommendations
to improve health, reduce infections and save lives
WHO has released new
recommendations on treatment, prevention and infant feeding in
the context of HIV, based on the latest scientific evidence.
Please note that these are summary recommendations and that the
final guidelines will be available in the first quarter of 2010.
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Regional strategy for the prevention and control of sexually
transmitted infections: 2009–2015
The WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office has developed a regional
strategy for the prevention and control of sexually transmitted
infections: 2009–2015. It aims to generate an accelerated regional
response for the prevention and control of STIs in order to achieve
international health goals. The STI regional strategy technical
paper was presented to and endorsed by the Ministers of Health of
the Eastern Mediterranean Region at their 55th Regional Committee
meeting in 2008.
Technical paper:
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Resolution:
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