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External sources (not reviewed)

The implementation of the programme has contributed to the mobilisation of internal forces in the performance of strategies and priority actions of prevention, monitoring, control of the HIV/AIDS disease and STD, implementation of informational and educational activities, work with vulnerable groups, initiation of treatment, delivery of healthcare assistance, support to positive HIV detected and those infected with AIDS.

[...] [...] drugs, 8 per cent participate in a programme involving opioid-agonist treatment therapy and 4 per cent of HIV-positive [...] [...]

An estimated 41 per cent of people in sub-Saharan Africa [...] [...]

HIV-positive pregnant women have been monitored by the National Programme for Combating AIDS (PNLS) since 2007, an activity carried out with the support of WFP in the form of food and the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which finances the distribution of infant formulas.

In light of the above, a number of proposals were made with regard to the human rights of HIV-positive women as follows: decrease stigma and discrimination against HIV-positive women at health-care facilities; involve HIV-positive women in all planning, programming and decision-making initiatives that impact their lives; create accessible, available, high-quality and acceptable services for HIV-positive women; examine the situation of forced sterilization of HIV-positive women; end the criminalization of HIV transmission; develop legal protection for people living with HIV including protection from discrimination; develop mechanisms for redress when the human rights of HIV-positive people are violated; abolish laws that discriminate against women and girls; and abolish laws that criminalize behaviours which further stigmatize and marginalize groups of women, including laws which criminalize drug use and sexual orientation.

Since 2008, it guaranteed anti-retro-viral treatment for 734 HIVpositive people.

[...] [...] languages, on topics ranging from girls’ education [...] [...]

We have learned about the importance of ensuring that every person who tests HIV-positive is followed up with ongoing care, support and early access to antiretroviral therapy.

Participation in the Economic and Social Council and its subsidiary entities: The organization’s representatives participated in the following: (a) the World AIDS Conferences (Canada, 2006, Mexico, 2008); (b) co-facilitated the UNICEF and the WFP Technical Consultation on Food Security, Nutrition and Children Affected by HIV and AIDS (Italy, 2007) and participated in the development of a Consensus Statement; (c) in 2007 was invited as a resource person in the WHO Asia Regional Technical Consultation on HIV/AIDS and Nutrition (Thailand); (d) one of PCI staff members in India was selected, from a pool of hundreds of HIV-positive women, to be the one representative from Asia on the UNAIDS Women and AIDS Tour to the United States.

It also noted that the same medical evidence mentioned that Ms. Njamba did not require HIV treatment.

New infections among adults and children dropped 17.4 per cent between 2001 and 2008, and in 2008 approximately 45 per cent of HIV-positive pregnant women in Africa received antiretroviral treatment to prevent transmission of the virus to their children.

The complainants appealed against this decision submitting that Ms. Njamba was HIV-positive and that no medical treatment was available in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Maison de Vie, a unique project of its kind in Europe whose construction will soon be completed, was created to provide a home for people with HIV to allow them to regain confidence and to live with their HIVpositive status.

Through its network of 63 information centres, the United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI) has engaged various groups advocating the protection of the human rights of women, children and vulnerable groups who are either HIV-positive or orphans as a result of AIDS.

[...] [...] their partners and, if positive, that they be treated for vertical [...] [...]

In this picture, a 15-month-old boy, who is HIV positive, sits in his crib at Bila Tserka Baby Home in the village of Bila Tserka, near Kyiv, the capital.

Additionally, EDUCAIDS resource packs and a report on the educational needs of HIV-positive learners were featured on the front page of the UNAIDS website, reflecting increased collaboration in this area.

Ken Chanthy and her husband, Khem Sovanak, are both HIV positive and often attend such gatherings.

[...] [...] migration and being HIV-positive.

Family planning can enable HIV-positive women to avoid unwanted pregnancies and thus reduce the prevalence of HIV among children.

These include strict monitoring of blood transfusions, the creation of a national HIV/AIDS observatory, the prevention of perinatal transmission and universal access to antiretroviral therapy through the comprehensive national social security system for health, which provides antiretroviral therapy to more than 80 per cent of patients identified as seropositive.

In the prevention of mother-to-child transmission, Lesotho noted tremendous progress of up to 81 per cent coverage in HIV-positive mothers.

A UNICEF review of paediatric AIDS monitoring data in four countries showed that only about 40 per cent of infants testing HIV-positive had ever enrolled at an antiretroviral treatment clinic, although the guidelines recommend that all start the treatment immediately.

[...] [...] positive test result, the importance of anticipating [...] [...]

[...] [...] HIV-positive non-citizen to disclose his/her status in order to marry a citizen, and work permits are not issued for HIV-positive migrant workers.

UNESCO also hosted two technical consultations (on HIV-positive teachers and on school-centred care and support) with ministries of education, civil society, research institutions, United Nations and other key stakeholders from 13 countries in eastern and southern Africa and developed two guidance documents on these issues.