UNAIDS Asia-Pacific

Monthly Archives: August 2018

PRESS RELEASE  Makati City, Philippines, 25 August 2018: UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach urged decision makers to address the causes that put young people at risk of HIV, speaking at the International Youth Day Conference organized by the United Nations Youth Association of the Philippines in collaboration with the United Nations Association of the Philippines, and held today at the University of Makati. “We live in… Read More

By UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé A shining light of Africa has passed away. An African at heart, but a global citizen, Kofi Annan symbolized the best of humanity. He was a rabble-rouser, a troubleshooter and a change-maker. At the turn of the century, AIDS denialism was at its peak. Mr Annan helped to break it. “More people have died of AIDS in the past year in Africa than in all the… Read More

Taguig City, 9 August 2018 – City Mayor of Taguig, Ma. Laarni ‘Lani’ Cayetano, signed today the Paris Declaration to Fast-Track Cities: Ending the AIDS Epidemic, at the Kalayaan Hall in SM Aura, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. The Declaration was signed in presence of HIV advocates Miss Universe-Philippines Catriona Elisa M. Gray and actor JC Santos, DOH-NCR Regional Director Corazon Flores, UNAIDS Country Director for the Philippines Dr. Louie Ocampo, The Red… Read More