AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases

World AIDS Day 2024

World AIDS Day 2024The theme of this year’s World AIDs Day campaign is HIV testing. The WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean is launching an HIV testing week from 1 to 7 December 2024 to promote differentiated person-centred testing approaches such as HIV self-testing, network-based testing and the use of virtual interventions and digital platforms to encourage at-risk individuals to get tested for HIV.

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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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