organization:unaids

WHO | WHO validates elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis in #Cuba
▻http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/mtct-hiv-cuba/en

30 JUNE 2015 ¦ GENEVA ¦ WASHINGTON - Cuba today became the first country in the world to receive validation from WHO that it has eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis.

“Eliminating transmission of a virus is one of the greatest public health achievements possible,” said Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General. “This is a major victory in our long fight against HIV and sexually transmitted infections, and an important step towards having an AIDS-free generation” she added.

Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS: “This is a celebration for Cuba and a celebration for children and families everywhere. It shows that ending the AIDS epidemic is possible and we expect Cuba to be the first of many countries coming forward to seek validation that they have ended their epidemics among children.”

#VIH #SIDA #enfant #santé #bonne_nouvelle

Viva Cuba !

HIV’s slow retrenchment | The Economist

▻http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/05/daily-chart-23

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THE latest dispatch from the war on HIV, the “Global AIDS Update 2016”, just published by UNAIDS, the UN agency responsible for combating the virus, brings qualified good news. Last year, it estimates, there were 1.1m AIDS-related deaths, down from a peak of 2m in 2005 and a value of 1.2m in 2014. Last year also saw 2.1m new infections, down from a peak of 3.4m in 1998 but up from 2014’s estimate of 2.0m.

By the end of 2015 some 17m people were taking anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs—2m more than the target number for that year, set by the UN in 2011. This accounts for the falling death rate. Some hoped the drug roll-out might also lead to an increased fall-off in the rate of new infections. That hope was based on the idea, experimentally demonstrated at small scale among cohabiting couples, that taking ARVs makes an infected individual less likely to pass the virus on. There is, though, no sign of such an acceleration in the downward trend of new infections. This year’s uptick aside, it has remained fairly steady since the turn of the century, despite the fraction of infected people on ARVs having risen from 3% in 2000 to 46% in 2015.

#santé #sida #hiv cc @fil

What does it take to become a UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador?
▻http://africasacountry.com/what-does-it-take-to-become-a-unaids-goodwill-ambassador

After Africa Is A Country learned that the Joint United Nations Programme on #HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) appointed former Spice girl turned fashion designer #Victoria_Beckham as a Goodwill Ambassador, our team decided to debate, “What does it take to take to become a UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador?” Here’s what we came up with as a way to […]

#DEVELOPMENT_&_AID #EDITORIAL #POP_CULTURE #AIDS #Goodwill_Ambassador_Program #UN

AIDS: News from the front | The Economist

▻http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/09/aids?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/newsfromfront

NO NEWS is often good news. AIDS has dropped out of the headlines in recent years, and that is because, in the battle between virus and people, people are winning.

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This year’s campaign report by UNAIDS, the United Nations agency charged with combating the disease, confirms that optimistic picture. Though AIDS is not beaten (it still kills 1.6m people a year), this number is down from a peak of 2.3m in 2005. And the number of new infections per year has fallen by a third, to 2.3m, since 2001. Paradoxically, the number of those infected is rising. But this is because they are living longer.

#santé #sida

Pour changer de ce qui précède (►http://seenthis.net/messages/100668), le rapport annuel de l’ONUSIDA (UNAIDS) vu sous l’aspect graphique.
►http://www.unaids.org/en/media/unaids/contentassets/documents/epidemiology/2012/gr2012/20121120_UNAIDS_Global_Report_2012_en.pdf

Tout d’abord, il faut remarquer que la qualité graphique est remarquable. Cette année, on peut noter l’intervention d’un graphiste nourri aux bonnes sources…

E. Tufte et son data-ink ratio

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/3aladu7gckdswcx/1-Living2010-12.jpg

W. S. Cleveland et son dot plot

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/251vkwoz3kc0xqc/2-Dot%20plot.jpg

La « représentation » des quartiles (et d’autres partitions)

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/q8zlmepgjd97ah1/3-Quartiles.jpg

Le classement des modalités qualitatives (les pays) en fonction des valeurs représentées (par exemple, dans le dot plot ci-dessus, ou encore)

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/w6909xrnywe5mqq/4-HIV%20Test.jpg

Et pour terminer, dans une optique data-ink ratio :

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/acxw68zq3oeynlk/5-Target.jpg

Un point noir : des anneaux (donuts ) dont la taille surestime la croissance du budget…
(j’ai superposé en parme bordé de pointillés blancs les bulles en me basant sur 2007 (en haut à gauche))

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/zcuz6stqeqg4bcx/6-Bubbles.jpg

Religion’s Role in Fighting AIDS - Isobel Coleman - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/religions-role-in-fighting-aids/249416

While religious leaders are unusually well-placed to provide followers with guidance about this preventable disease, they have in many cases contributed to the epidemic by denying the importance of condoms in HIV prevention and contributing to the stigma that AIDS patients already confront.

Nevertheless, even in light of the ongoing devastation of AIDS, our mixed response to it, and the current funding crunch, we can find a few glimmers of good news. The 2011 UNAIDS World AIDS Day Report indicates that the number of new HIV infections throughout the world decreased by 21 percent from 1997 to 2010.

#religion #sida