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FAST FACTS: Critical gains in HIV response, but adolescents - especially girls - remain disproportionately affected, UNICEF warns on World AIDS day
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Ending the aids epidemic among young people
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is one of only two regions in the world with rising numbers of people acquiring HIV. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) estimates that about 20,000 people acquired HIV in the MENA region in 2022, a 54 percent increase since 2010. This is the steepest ris...
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Seizing the opportunity: Ending AIDS
With its concentrated HIV epidemic, the Middle East and North Africa has the advantage of a relatively low HIV burden among the general population, as well as among children and adolescents. To respond to the issues posed by HIV in the region, considerable efforts have been invested at the local, national and regi...
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In Iran, EU-UNICEF partnership helps prevent HIV/AIDS transmission
In Iran, EU-UNICEF partnership helps prevent HIV/AIDS transmission from Afghan pregnant mothers to their newborns in Iran, On this cool spring day, the main waiting hall of Mahdiyeh Hospital is populated with many women who are either pregnant or, having just delivered, hold their newborn and wait to be called int...
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Ministry of Health and UNICEF Iran hold training workshop on HIV prevention and harm reduction for adolescents and youth
SHIRAZ, Iran, 7 September 2014 –, A training workshop on the best practices of HIV prevention and harm reduction for adolescents and youth using Amphetamine-type Stimulants was held from 1-3 September 2014 in Shiraz in partnership with the Ministry of Health and the UNICEF Iran Office. Experts and policy-makers from the national strategic committee as well as HIV/AIDS focal…