2020

Read more about COVID-19: Considerations for tuberculosis (TB) care

As the world comes together to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to ensure that essential services and operations for dealing with long-standing health problems continue to protect the lives of people with TB and other diseases or health conditions. Health services, including national programmes to combat TB, need to be actively engaged in ensuring an effective and rapid response to COVID-19 while ensuring that TB services are maintained.

Read more about COVID-19: What it means for children and what we can do to protect them

Poor children will be disproportionately affected by the crisis. Urban poor, migrant and displaced families are especially at risk as they tend to live in overcrowded settings, without WASH services and the possibility to practice physical distancing. This includes more than half a billion children living in slums and informal settlements, including millions of minorities and undocumented migrant children, whose access to essential services is already limited, with households largely dependent on daily wages at risk of vanishing overnight.

Read more about Policy Brief:The Impact of COVID-19 on children

There are three main channels through which children are affected by this crisis: infection with the virus itself; the immediate socioeconomic impacts of measures to stop transmission of the virus and end the pandemic; and the potential longer-term effects of delayed implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

The International AIDS Society (IAS) is organizing a series of webinars on the topic of COVID-19 and HIV to discuss the pandemic and its impact on people living with HIV. Through these webinar sessions, the IAS would like to provide an opportunity for discussion around the latest science, in addition to sharing learning and best practices in relation to COVID-19 and HIV between countries at different stages of the pandemic, especially in lower- and middle-income countries.

COVID-19 Update for Healthcare Professionals

What You Now Need to Know

Read more about COVID-19 response: Considerations for Children and Adults with Disabilities

A UNICEF guidance note on considerations for children and adults with disabilities in the COVID-19 response. The guidance describes what we need to know about the situation of persons with disabilities in COVID-19 response, and what we need to do in five key points..The guidance will be revised as the situation evolves.

Webinar: Updates from CROI 2020 on pregnant women, children, adolescents and HIV

Thursday, 26 March, 2020 9:00–10:30 AM EST

Dr. Lynne Mofenson, Senior HIV Technical Advisor at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, shared an overview of the latest science on HIV/AIDS related to women, children and adolescents presented virtually at CROI 2020.

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CROI2020 Webinar Presentation Slideset

CROI2020 Extended Slideset

Cyclone Idai | Integration of HIV into the humanitarian response in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe

This multi-country case study from the UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office highlights important HIV-specific interventions that were integrated into the emergency cyclone response in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe during and after Cyclone Idai in March 2019.

Integration of HIV into Cyclone Idai response in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe

No Time To Wait!

This framework has been designed for CSOs to help you plan your work around infant HIV testing. There is a particular focus on Africa, as programmes to introduce point-of-care machines have so far focused on African countries, but we hope that the framework can be used by anyone wanting to work on early infant diagnosis of HIV.

No Time To Wait - advocacy brief

No Time To Wait Strategic Framework - English

No Time To Wait Strategic Framework - French

Summary of 2020 Joint UCPOC Communications Activities

Summary of 2019 Joint UCPOC Communications Activities