Championing zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination, and zero AIDS-related deaths worldwide | #EndAIDS | Executive Director: @Winnie_Byanyima
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UNAIDS Global retweeted
✅ 26 countries have been certified for eliminating the transmission of HIV from mother-to-child.
✅ 15 of them are from Latin America & the Caribbean.
✅ In 2015, Cuba was the first country to be certified.
Here's the breakdown 👇🏾
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Congratulations Barbados 🇧🇧 for obtaining the @pahowho certification of the elimination of vertical transmission of HIV! This achievement reflects political commitment, technical and community leadership, as well as investment in integrated health services grounded in human rights and gender equality.
Watch @UnaidsLac Director @LuisaCabal_’s message below 👇🏼
Press statement: unaids.org/en/resources/pres…
UNAIDS Global retweeted
A stronger @UNAIDS must deliver for countries and communities: funded community leadership, human rights and safe access to care.
My article reflects on this next chapter, and the programme countries helping sustain UNAIDS.
#UNAIDS #CommunityLeadership
UNAIDS congratulates Mark Dybul as the new Executive Director of the @GlobalFund and also warmly welcomes the new Board Chair and Vice-Chair, Erna Solberg and Javier Hourcade Bellocq.
We also thank Peter Sands, and Chair and Vice Chair Lady Roslyn Morauta and Bience Gawanas, for their excellent leadership of the Global Fund over these years.
UNAIDS and the Global Fund have worked hand in hand to advance the global HIV response, expand access to life-saving treatment and prevention, and support countries and communities.
We look forward to working in partnership and solidarity to build on this longstanding partnership and accelerate progress towards ending AIDS by 2030.
The @GlobalFund is pleased to announce Dr. Mark Dybul as its next Executive Director.
His leadership and extensive experience in global health and development will help shape the Global Fund’s next chapter and accelerate progress towards ending AIDS, TB & malaria.
theglobalfund.org/en/news/20…
UNAIDS Global retweeted
UNAIDS must continue, with African women’s rights and leadership at the centre.
AWPCAB calls for decision-making power, sustainable funding for women-led action and uninterrupted HIV services.
Read our statement:
awpcab.org/unaids-statement-…
#ICYMI UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board has rejected the sunsetting of UNAIDS.
Here’s what you need to know about the key decisions.
Read more: unaids.org/en/resources/pres…
The UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board has rejected the sunsetting of UNAIDS, reaffirming its support for a continued, streamlined and efficient Joint Programme.
At its special session, the Board approved the strategic direction for the transition, emphasizing that it must:
✅ Keep communities at the centre
✅ Protect human rights and gender equality
✅ Maintain inclusive governance under the PCB
✅ Ensure a phased transition shaped by country contexts and readiness
The Board also called for stronger country-level leadership and community co-creation and co-leadership, while protecting the gains of the HIV response.
See what programme countries and civil society representatives had to say about the future of UNAIDS and the HIV response.
PRESS RELEASE: UNAIDS board rejects sunsetting of UNAIDS
🔗 unaids.org/en/resources/pres…
Closing her remarks at today’s UNAIDS PCB Special Session, Executive Director @Winnie_Byanyima underscored the stakes of the Joint Programme’s transformation.
UNAIDS is not closing. Its mission continues.
The road ahead demands a responsible transition that builds on past achievements, strengthens country ownership and protects the people we serve.
At the UNAIDS PCB Special Session, Executive Director @Winnie_Byanyima reminded the Board that the UNAIDS Joint Programme’s transformation must deliver for people: ensuring access to HIV treatment and prevention, empowering community-led organizations, and building sustainable national responses.
“The Joint Programme’s transformation must serve that larger transformation, not the other way around.”
At the UNAIDS PCB Special Session, Executive Director @Winnie_Byanyima reminded the Board that the UNAIDS Joint Programme’s transformation must deliver for people: ensuring access to HIV treatment and prevention, empowering community-led organizations, and building sustainable national responses.
“The Joint Programme’s transformation must serve that larger transformation, not the other way around.”
The UNAIDS Joint Programme brings together the Secretariat and its UN Cosponsors to support governments, share resources and work with communities to deliver HIV programmes.
Speaking at today’s UNAIDS PCB Special Session, Executive Director @Winnie_Byanyima highlighted examples of this collaboration, from regional efforts in the Pacific and Latin America to HIV prevention programmes in South Africa and Uganda.
UNAIDS Global retweeted
The goal is clear: a future where everyone can access HIV prevention and treatment, where community-led organizations are recognized and resourced, and where countries can sustain their responses for generations to come. Let’s be ambitious about reform and uncompromising about protecting lives, rights, and the hard-won progress of the AIDS response. #UnitedToEndAIDS #PCBSpecial
Reducing costs alone is not reform. We cannot transfer responsibilities to governments and communities without ensuring they have the capacity, resources and accountability to sustain them. We must not dismantle what works before something stronger is in place.
A poorly managed @UNAIDS transition could revert decades of hard-won gains. We must not allow that to happen.
#PCBSpecial #UnitedToEndAIDS
UNAIDS Global retweeted
The Working Group has also given us a clear destination: country functions increasingly integrated into national systems and community-led institutions.
That is building capacity for sustainable HIV responses. This is fully consistent with #UN80.
A transformed United Nations must measure its success not by the structures it preserves or abolishes, but by the impact we deliver for people.
#PCBSpecial #UnitedToEndAIDS
The transformation of @UNAIDS must do no harm.
The PCB Working Group has shown us a strategic direction: a phased transition, grounded in country realities, co-created and co-led with communities. It must protect and build on what works when the Joint Programme shows up together.
Every day, across countries and regions, the Joint Programme's Cosponsors and the Secretariat are delivering together.
That is worth preserving and strengthening.
#PCBSpecial #EndAIDS
UNAIDS Global retweeted
The transformation of @UNAIDS must do no harm.
The PCB Working Group has shown us a strategic direction: a phased transition, grounded in country realities, co-created and co-led with communities. It must protect and build on what works when the Joint Programme shows up together.
Every day, across countries and regions, the Joint Programme's Cosponsors and the Secretariat are delivering together.
That is worth preserving and strengthening.
#PCBSpecial #EndAIDS
Countries, activists and communities, you have made your voices heard: you refused to accept the end of the Joint Programme. Thank you for your courage and leadership. Saving @UNAIDS is only the first step. Now we must get its transformation right.
#PCBSpecial #UnitedToEndAIDS
UNAIDS Global retweeted
Countries, activists and communities, you have made your voices heard: you refused to accept the end of the Joint Programme. Thank you for your courage and leadership. Saving @UNAIDS is only the first step. Now we must get its transformation right.
#PCBSpecial #UnitedToEndAIDS
What we are deciding here is consequential. It is about people, people living with HIV.
People who have given decades of their lives to fighting AIDS.
Communities who have struggled to have their voices heard.
People on the margins of our societies, criminalised, discriminated against, and too often abandoned.
Countries carrying the heaviest burden of this pandemic.
And ultimately, it's millions of people whose lives depend on the global AIDS response, and whom the @UN cannot leave behind.
This is the test. Leaving no one behind is not leaving these people on the margins, not leaving them behind.
#PCBSpecial #UnitedToEndAIDS
UNAIDS Global retweeted
What we are deciding here is consequential. It is about people, people living with HIV.
People who have given decades of their lives to fighting AIDS.
Communities who have struggled to have their voices heard.
People on the margins of our societies, criminalised, discriminated against, and too often abandoned.
Countries carrying the heaviest burden of this pandemic.
And ultimately, it's millions of people whose lives depend on the global AIDS response, and whom the @UN cannot leave behind.
This is the test. Leaving no one behind is not leaving these people on the margins, not leaving them behind.
#PCBSpecial #UnitedToEndAIDS
Thank you to the Co-facilitators of the @UNAIDS PCB Working Group—Dr Joe Phaahla, Deputy Minister of Health 🇿🇦, Fionnuala Murphy, Head of Global Advocacy @FrontlineAIDS 🇬🇧, and @BobRae48 Former Ambassador 🇨🇦—for your leadership and broad consultation. Your work will help preserve a unique model that countries, communities and civil society fought hard to protect. And thank you, Ambassador Erica Schouten 🇳🇱 for your expert chairing of today's #PCBSpecial Session. #UnitedToEndAIDS
The UNAIDS Joint Programme brings together the Secretariat and its UN Cosponsors to support governments, share resources and work with communities to deliver HIV programmes.
Speaking at today’s UNAIDS PCB Special Session, Executive Director @Winnie_Byanyima highlighted examples of this collaboration, from regional efforts in the Pacific and Latin America to HIV prevention programmes in South Africa and Uganda.
“Moving faster is not necessarily moving forward.”
Speaking at today’s UNAIDS PCB Special Session, Executive Director @Winnie_Byanyima stressed that the UNAIDS Joint Programme’s transformation must be responsible and do no harm. Functions cannot be transferred to governments and communities without the capacity and resources to sustain them. Decades of progress in the HIV response must be protected.
“Moving faster is not necessarily moving forward.”
Speaking at today’s UNAIDS PCB Special Session, Executive Director @Winnie_Byanyima stressed that the UNAIDS Joint Programme’s transformation must be responsible and do no harm. Functions cannot be transferred to governments and communities without the capacity and resources to sustain them. Decades of progress in the HIV response must be protected.
"All the world wants to do is to forget that AIDS ever existed. We should not give this up without a fight."
As the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board holds its special session today to discuss the future of the UNAIDS Joint Programme, communities reflected on the need for the transformation to safeguard the rights, health and services of communities most affected by HIV, ensuring no one is left behind. #PCBSpecial
Today, the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) holds a special session to consider the future of the UNAIDS Joint Programme, including a roadmap for its further transition and integration into the UN system and beyond.
As the Joint Programme evolves, its role in coordinating the HIV response, providing technical expertise, ensuring accountability and amplifying community leadership remains vital to ending AIDS.