Press Release Archives - Society for AIDS in Africa (SAA)

HIV testing. Tajikistan, 2021. Credit: UNAIDS

08 Feb

UNAIDS: PRESS STATEMENT

Identification of fast-spreading HIV variant provides evidence of urgency to halt the pandemic and reach all with testing and treatment Around 10 million people living with HIV are still not on antiretroviral therapy GENEVA, 7 February 2022—Newly published research from the Netherlands has revealed the existence of a more transmissible and damaging variant of HIV. People living with the newly revealed HIV subtype experience double the rate of immune system decline (CD4 count), have higher HIV viral loads (amount of virus [...]

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09 Jul

FULL CIRCLE TAX WATCH MONITORING PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION PHASE KICKS OFF IN ACCRA-GHANA.

The Society for AIDS in Africa (SAA), organizers of the International Conference on AIDS & STIs in Africa (ICASA), a member of the consortium with the Peer Review Forum, Accountability International, Kids & Teens Resource Centre and ARCAD SANTE Plus is jointly embarking on the Full Circle Tax Watch Monitoring for Marginalized Populations sponsored by VOICE (UK). This project aims to empower marginalized populations in Ghana, Mali and Nigeria with the skills to improve accountability around budgeting and tax monitoring [...]

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04 Jun

Prof John Idoko Message to SAA members after he visited the Headquarters

I am grateful to the Coordinator of the Society for AIDS in Africa (SAA) and the Director of the International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa, Mr Luc Armand H. Bodea, and all team members for inviting me to the headquarters. Over the years serving as a member of the board, SAA has made significant progress. I am thrilled that the organization faces the enormous challenges that the organization faces due to the COVID 19 pandemic [...]

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The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres

01 May

United Nations Secretary-General calls for a greater focus on ending inequalities to end AIDS

PRESS RELEASE Forty years since the first AIDS cases were reported and just weeks before the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on AIDS, the United Nations Secretary-General has released a new report with recommendations and targets to get the world on track to end AIDS NEW YORK, 30 April 2021—The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has warned that despite intensive action and progress made against HIV in some places and population groups, HIV epidemics continue to expand in others and [...]

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14 Dec

ICASA 2021 Press Release

Press Release: 12th December 2020 EMBARGO: None (For immediate release) Communiqué de presse: 14 décembre 2020 EMBARGO: Aucun (Pour diffusion immédiate) The Society for AIDS in Africa was founded in 1989 at the fourth International Symposium on AIDS and Associated Cancers in Africa (now ICASA) held in Marseille France by a group of African scientists, activists, and advocates in response to the HIV epidemic. The establishment of the Society was the effect of the agitations of some African scientists for the [...]

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