HIV and AIDS
Women are one of the fastest growing populations being infected with HIV in Malaysia. This is a cause of concern as the vulnerability of women and children to HIV are directly linked to each other. This UNICEF-Ministry of Health joint Report recommends several strategies and interventions in line with Strategy 4 of the Malaysian Government's National Strategic Plan on HIV/AIDS 2006-2010. Read
This Third Stocktaking Report examines data on progress, emerging evidence, and current knowledge and practice for HIV and AIDS among children as they relate to four programme areas, and it calls for several focused, concrete, achievable actions that can significantly improve prospects for children and women and help nations move towards their goals. Read
This 2007 report which is updated from an earlier version released in October 2006, aims to provide the latest information of collaborative actions between UNICEF and governments, civil society, the United Nations system and international partners in East Asia and the Pacific region. Read
This publication discusses the protection issues facing children globally, outlining the priority actions needed to reduce their vulnerability. It calls for enhanced social protection, legal protection and justice, and alternative care, underpinned by efforts to address the silence and stigma that allow discrimination, abuse and exploitation of children to continue. Read
This report, produced by UNICEF, UNAIDS and WHO, assesses some of the most important actions and changes for children affected by AIDS that occurred in the first year of the global campaign Unite for Children. Unite against AIDS. While it notes promising developments for children, it also highlights the gaps that remain and seeks to explore how the campaign must move forward in 2007. Read
Much has been accomplished within the East Asia and Pacific region in the past one year since the launch of UNICEF's Global Campaign on Children and AIDS. Most governments in the region have embraced the Campaign and many have embarked on the hard work of turning words into action. This Report is an overview of the first-year progress and a country-by-country assessment. Read
Scaling up the Response for Children, the regional consultation on children and HIV/AIDS in Hanoi, Viet Nam, 22-24 March 2006 provides a key opportunity to put children on the HIV/AIDS agenda and mobilise an accelerated response in East Asia and the Pacific. This background paper is intended to stimulate thinking towards that end. Read
HIV/AIDS has left virtually no country, rich or poor, untouched. The East Asia region is already witnessing some of the world’s fastest growing HIV epidemics. Progress has been made, and leaders are beginning to match words with action. Yet there is much more to be done. Read
AIDS is threatening children as never before. Millions are missing their childhood, medicines, education, information and other essentials due to the disease. Yet children are often overlooked in AIDS programs, policies and budgets. This Report highlights UNICEF’s strategies to accelerate action to help those at risk of HIV infection, and those already infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Read
This information kit, prepared by UNICEF and partners, calls on parliamentarians to use their influence and resources in halting the spread of HIV/AIDS. Leadership by elected officials - whose actions must include breaking the silence, educating their constituencies and lobbying for AIDS legislation and budgetary allocations - is key to controlling the disease. Read
We must focus on young people to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS. More than half of those newly infected with HIV today are between 15 and 24 years old. Yet the needs of the world’s 1 billion young people are often disregarded when HIV/AIDS policies are made and budgets allocated. This Report contains important new data about why young people are key to defeating the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. Read
HIV and AIDS Data Hub, Asia & Pacific
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