Informations Internationals
12/10/2015Financing the Global Goals: Why the Global Fund replenishment matters for the SDGsaidspan.org - "Now that member-states have adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the global community is turning to how the seventeen goals can be achieved. The ambitious targets – 169 of them in total – were set through what some have called the most inclusive consultative process in the history of the United Nations. The same collective effort will no doubt be needed to translate global dialogue into local impact. (by Gemma Oberth) |
07/10/2015How will the world be held accountable for achieving its new goals?Key Correspondent - "On 26 September, representatives from a number of non-governmental organisations met to discuss accountability for achieving the new sustainable development goals. |
12/10/2015Ending violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex peopleUNAIDS/UN - "We remain seriously concerned that around the world, millions of LGBTI individuals, those perceived as LGBTI and their families face widespread human rights violations. This is cause for alarm – and action. |
26/09/2015UNAIDS welcomes bold new HIV prevention and treatment targets from PEPFARUNAIDS, New York, Geneva, 26 September 2015 - "UNAIDS welcomes the ambitious new targets set by the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) just one day after the Sustainable Development Goals were adopted by United Nations Member States at the UN headquarters in New York which include ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030. |
18/09/2015Young people in desperate search for safer sexKey Correspondents - "For young people in southern Africa a lack of access to condoms is putting them at risk of unwanted pregnancies and HIV, and could ultimately jeopardise their lives. |
18/09/2015Researchers put lens on sexual violence and sex workKey Correspondents - "Over 350 researchers, gender activists, policy makers, practitioners and survivors from around the world convened in South Africa for the Sexual Violence Research Initiative Forum this week. |
11/09/2015Why is country ownership essential to the AIDS response?UNAIDS - It is a key factor that countries know their HIV/AIDS epidemic, that they have a clear picture of their key population and of the patterns of HIV transmission. Only then a country-owned national AIDS response is possible. |