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UNAIDS: The First 10 Years

UNAIDS: The First 10 Years

Knight, Lindsay

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Series: Unaids Publication

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ISBN10: 9291735892
ISBN13: 9789291735891
Publisher: World Health Orgn
Pages: 286
Weight: 1.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 7.40 Depth: 9.90
Language: English
This is the history of a relatively young organization UNAIDS, launched in 1996 to strengthen the way in which the United Nations (UN) was responding to AIDS, one of the worst pandemics the world has ever known. By 1996, some 15 years since a few cases of the new condition were first reported in a scientific publication, over four million people had died from AIDS, several million were living with HIV and the future predictions were dire. This book relates the struggles and achievements of the institution, and the contribution it has made to the progress, however slow and faltering at times, in the response to one of the greatest threats humankind has faced. It also attempts to explain the innovative nature of UNAIDS a joint program that has brought together a number of cosponsoring UN organizations (originally six, now 10). Only a special UN program was deemed capable by its creators of orchestrating a global response to a fast-growing epidemic of a feared and stigmatized disease whose roots and ramifications extend into virtually all aspects of society.

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