#ZeroHIVStigmaDay Zero HIV Stigma Day is a new international HIV awareness day whose inaugural commemoration will be today, 21 July 2023. The day aims to unite people, communities, and entire countries to raise awareness about and take action to end HIV-related stigma that both violates human rights and jeopardizes efforts to end the global HIV epidemic.

Faith communities and faith-based organizations have a long history of caring for children and adolescents living with and affected by HIV. However, these efforts have not been well documented and hence their contributions have not been well understood nor resourced.

This year’s theme for Men’s Health Week, which was from the 12th to the 18th of June 2023, was ‘men’s health and the internet’, which emphasised the importance of technology and social media on mental health.

The PEPFAR/Eswatini (PEPFAR/E) COP23 vision centers around evolving service delivery support to close gaps to 95-95-95 in sub-populations and increase the sustainability of the National response while strengthening health systems and facilitating an enabling environment to increase domestic responsibility and maintain HIV epidemic control.

Although great strides have been made in tackling HIV in recent years, Africa remains the continent most affected by HIV and progress towards ending AIDS is stalling. The COVID-19 pandemic, global inflation, growing debt levels, and a retreat from overseas development assistance by some donors are hampering Africa’s efforts to ramp up national HIV responses and are jeopardizing broader outcomes for health, social development and economic growth.

SIBANE HOTEL - This week, the SADC LUCT HIV Prevention Project for the youth, dubbed THPPY, received a special visit from its counterparts from Botswana. This follows a recommendation by the National AIDS Councils of the 3 countries where the project is being implemented (Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini). The THPPY is an initiative aimed at increasing HIV knowledge on social and digital media, targeted at the youth.