Read the 2012 letter to partners from UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé.

The need to ensure that people in Africa have access to essential, high quality, safe  and affordable medicines has just received a major boost with the launch of the East African Community (EAC) Medicines Registration Harmonization Project in Arusha, Tanzania, on 30 March 2011. 

On World TB Day, let’s celebrate a partnership, which in just a few years is helping to transform the AIDS epidemic.

Much more needs to be done to prevent tuberculosis (TB) which affects at least half a million of the world’s children every year, with as many as 70 000 losing their lives. According to WHO and the Stop TB Partnership, most children can be saved from this curable illness with better diagnosis of the condition, greater access to health services and improved coordination of healthcare programmes.