Introduction - HIV/AIDS

Introduction - HIV/AIDS

A Promise Renewed

A Promise Renewed

Action

Action

 

Introduction - HIV/AIDS

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Dinkinesh is a 60-year-old grandmother who lives in Addis Ababa with her six-year-old grandchild Brook. The husband of her only daughter died of AIDS. Dinkinesh's daughter followed a year and a half later, leaving behind four children.

There are currently an estimated 2.2 million people living with the virus with the highest prevalence rates attributed to youth between 15-24 years.

Though awareness about HIV/AIDS is high, misconceptions and low risk perception are equally high across target groups.  Stigma and discrimination are thus still formidable challenges that limit the realization of the rights of people living with AIDS (PLWAs) as well as orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) affected by the virus. 

Data on OVCs affected by HIV/AIDS is lacking.  The majority of orphans are cared for within their communities by extended family, but the capacity of the extended family is being stretched. Stigma and discrimination sometimes mean that orphans are shunned with no place to go.  

The Government of Ethiopia adopted an HIV/AIDS National Policy in 1998 and established a multi-sectoral program co-ordinated by National and Regional HIV/AIDS Council Secretariats.
  
 

 

 

 

A Promise Renewed

 

 

African Leadership for Child Survival: A Promise Renewed.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 

16 - 18 January 2013

 

 

Media Advisories - Addis Ababa / Addis Ababa/New York/Washington D.C.

• Programme (Agenda)
• Fact Sheet
• Key Messages
• Q & A
• Press Release
• Consensus Statement : English  and French Version

Photos: http://www.flicker.com/photos/unicefethiopia/ 

Videos:

UNICEF Executive Director - Anthony Lake  / Lionel Messi - PSA / USAID Administrator - Dr Rajiv Shah / Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ethiopia - Dr. Tedros Adhanom/  Minister of Health, Ethiopia - Dr. Kesetebirhan Admasu / Minister of Health, DRC - Dr. Felix Kabange Numbi Mukwampa / Deputy Minister of Health, Malawi - Honorable Halimima Daudi -Part 1 and Part 2 / Minister of Health, Angola - Dr. Carlos Masseca 

Statements:

• Opening Statement by Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ethiopia
• Opening Statement by Dr. Kesetebirhan Admasu, Minister of Health, Ethiopia
• Closing Statement by Dr. Dennis Weller, USAID Mission Director to Ethiopia
• Closing Statemtn by Dr. Peter Salama, UNICEF Representative to Ethiopia

Presentation: Dr. Mickey Chopra, Associate Director Health, UNICEF New York

Real Lives: Full bus journalists visit health programmes before "A Promised Renewed Meeting kicks off in Addis by wossen Mulatu. 15 January 2013

Links:

African Leadership for child Survival meeting in Ethiopia charts map for reducung child deaths by Alexandra Westerbeek, 28 January 2013.