HIV, Health & Development

Challenges in Arab States

Nearly three decades into the AIDS epidemic, the number of new HIV infections has yet to decline. Over 34 million people around the world are living with HIV and AIDS — half of them women. The epidemic has cost more than 1.8 million lives in 2010, and in 2011 over 1.7 million people died of AIDS-related causes. More

Our Goals

UNDP focuses on supporting the creation of an enabling environment to prevent the spread of HIV on one hand, and to support the empowerment of People Living with HIV (PLWH) on the other hand. More

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Raising awareness about HIV in the occupied Palestinian territories

Marking the UN AIDS Day, UN staff join the students of st.George's School in an awareness campaign on HIV/AIDS

Our Stories

  • UNDP in the occupied Palestinian territories

    AIDS in Gaza: "I know, so I am not afraid"
    oPt

    Fifty-year-old Um Mohammad, a mother of nine, has been living with HIV for 16 years in the Gaza Strip in the occupied Palestinian territory. She was More

  • TB patient receiving daily treatment at TB centre in Bab Mousalla, Damascus (Photo: Ingrida Kerusauskaite)

    UNDP helps Syria achieve tuberculosis breakthrough
    Tuberculosis

    09 March 2011 Support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has increased success in More

Project & Initiatives

UNDP establishes a partnership with Saut Al Arab to empower PLWH

In the context of the initiative on the socio-economic empowerment of People Living with HIV (PLWH), the HIV Practice of the UNDP Regional Centre in Cairo (RCC) established a partnership with the famous radio station Saut Al Arab (which reaches out to 40% of the rural populations in the Arab world). more

The Power of Hope: The Story of Fatima & Khadra


“Following a series of trainings for women living with HIV, UNDP and its partners (the National AIDS Program and several Djiboutian NGOs) launched an initiative to help women infected or affected by HIV / AIDS to develop income-generating activities. Fatima and Khadra are among the beneficiaries of this programme.

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Mobility, Migration and HIV Vulnerability
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Mobility, Migration and HIV Vulnerability

The report provides a literature review and updated situational analysis of the HIV vulnerability factors experienced by key populations in Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.

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