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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

UNAIDS

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Africa

Why Nigerian companies topped Africa’s fastest growing list in a difficult year

      By Conrad Onyango, bird story agency     In early 2023, when Nigeria began rolling out its newly designed currency notes, the country was hit by a cash crisis. The reason? Nigeria’s apex bank had put a cap on the maximum amount of hard cash that individuals and corporations could withdraw as part of wider efforts to tame money laundering. While this scarcity of hard cash worsened […]

todayMay 21, 2024 11

Environment

Charting a New Global Course for Dealing With Illicit Drug Use

International Overdose Awareness Day 2022 in Barcelona. The annual UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs session agreed to make a major policy shift on drug use, moving from a criminalization approach toward harm-reduction measures. TELUOBIR/CREATIVE COMMONS     This year’s meeting of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna marked a significant shift in policy when it agreed to focus on drug use as a public health issue that required an […]

todayMay 21, 2024 34

Health / Medical

On International Women’s Day, UNAIDS calls for protecting women’s rights to protect their health

Ahead of International Women’s Day, celebrated on 8 March, UNAIDS is calling for the protection of women’s rights to protect their health. The world is way off track to meet the gender, equality and HIV targets that are part of the Sustainable Development Goals. At the current rate of progress, it will take an estimated 300 years to end child marriage, 140 years for women to be represented equally in […]

todayMarch 6, 2024 20

Health / Medical

On the 10th anniversary of Zero Discrimination Day UNAIDS calls for the protection of human rights as a path to protecting health for all

Zero Discrimination Day was established by UNAIDS ten years ago to advance equality and fairness for everyone regardless of gender, age, sexuality, ethnicity or HIV status. However, progress is in peril. Attacks on the rights of women and girls, of LGBTQ+ people, and of other marginalized communities are on the rise. And when laws, policies, practices or norms enshrine punishment, discrimination or stigma for people because they are women, or are LGBTQ+, or […]

todayFebruary 27, 2024 34

World

UNAIDS urges continued efforts ahead of World AIDS Day

With World Aids Day around the corner, the Deputy Executive Director for UNAIDS, Angeli Achrekar, says that despite efforts geared towards eliminating AIDS as a public health threat by 2030, the “job isn't done. This as UNAIDS launched its latest report titled 'Let Communities Lead' on Tuesday.  

todayNovember 29, 2023 9

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