The WHO regional AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases programme addresses acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
The programme supports Member States to strengthen their health sector response, develop national capacity and scale up all aspects of HIV/STI prevention, treatment and care.
“More than 85% of people living with HIV, who need life-saving antiretroviral therapy, do not receive it. This treatment crisis calls for strengthening HIV control strategies and programmes in the...
» Read the full storyCAIRO/AMMAN, 25 September 2012 – The health of thousands of mothers and children in the Middle East and North Africa will receive a boost with a new initiative aimed at...
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WHO Regional Office is calling for a regional initiative to End the HIV Treatment Crisis in the Region with the aim of achieving universal coverage of HIV treatment by 2020. Despite commendable efforts made to make antiretroviral therapy available in all countries of the Region for almost a decade, in...
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Progress report 2011: Global HIV/AIDS response
UNAIDS Middle East and North Africa Regional Report on AIDS 2011