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At COP30, Unitaid is showcasing how innovation can make healthcare more sustainable and resilient. From climate-smart supply chains to low-carbon health products, we’re working to protect health in a changing climate.

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UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) - Unitaid
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November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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🌍 Join us at #COP30 for an important discussion on climate change and infectious diseases.

Hosted by @cepi.net, @oficialfiocruz.bsky.social, @gavi.org, @mmv.org, @unitaid.bsky.social, and DNDi.

💻 Click here to watch live: who.int/news-room/ev...
November 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Zambia’s swift registration of lenacapavir shows strong national leadership and commitment to ending HIV. With partners, Unitaid is working to ensure affordable access, effective delivery, and rapid adoption of this twice-yearly HIV prevention option.

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November 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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In Zambia’s mining heartlands, TB threatens both health and livelihoods. TB survivor and advocate Maxwell Mumba shares how stigma, hunger and poverty stand in the way of prevention, and how communities are fighting back.

Read his story: unitaid.org/news-blog/fi...
Fighting TB means fighting poverty. Why hunger and stigma are the real barriers to health - Unitaid
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November 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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AVAC's new resource "Getting lenacapavir rollout right: resources and tools" brings together guidance to help countries plan early stages of lenacapavir rollout. Developed with Unitaid and partners, it supports coordinated planning for long-acting PrEP.

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November 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Editable lenacapavir job aids developed by Wits RHI, with support from Unitaid and partners, are now available through PrEPWatch. They offer practical tools for providers delivering long-acting injectable PrEP across diverse settings.

Learn more: www.prepwatch.org/resources/le...
November 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Spatial repellents are the first new malaria control tool in decades to earn @who.int endorsement. Unitaid funded the Kenya trial showing 32% fewer infections and invested $18M in Cameroon research to test protection in tough settings like refugee camps.

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Spatial Repellents Could Help Supercharge The Fight Against Malaria
Spatial repellents have been researched, and now conditionally approved at a global level, as a supplement to the tried-and-true methods of malaria control.
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October 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Are you subscribed to our quarterly #LONGEVITYproject newsletter?

We update LONGEVITY news, opportunities and global events.
LONGEVITY, funded by @unitaid.bsky.social, is working to create long-acting malaria, TB and HCV medicines for patients in LMICs.

Sign up: www.liverpool.ac.uk/centre-of-ex...
An illustration of a globe with items leading away from it, they read "materials chemistry + pharmacology + regulatory expertise + community engagement = new long-acting medicines"
October 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Unitaid seeks partners to accelerate equitable access to innovative diagnostic tools. The new funding call focuses on integrated approaches that improve detection, link people to care and strengthen health systems.

Apply by 19 January 2026, 12:00 CET.
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Unitaid to improve access to diagnostics through integrated tools and delivery approaches with new call for proposals - Unitaid
The deadline for proposal submission is Monday 19 January 2026 at 12:00 (noon) CET  Unitaid seeks to fund new initiatives that will expand access to diagnostics through the adoption of integrated diag...
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October 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Medical oxygen saves lives every day, yet millions still go without it. As featured in Development Asia, partners like Japan and Unitaid are supporting countries to expand access and make oxygen a cornerstone of health resilience.

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Investing in Oxygen Access: A Lifeline for Health Resilience in Asia
Health systems must prioritize sustainable oxygen supply to strengthen routine care and prepare for future pandemics.
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October 23, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Unitaid accueille l’Ambassadrice Anne-Claire Amprou, Ambassadrice française pour la santé mondiale, en tant que nouvelle Présidente de son Conseil d’administration. Elle prendra ses fonctions à l’issue du mandat de Marisol Touraine en décembre 2025.

En savoir plus : unitaid.org/fr/news-blog...
L’ambassadrice Anne-Claire Amprou nommée à la présidence du Conseil d’administration d’Unitaid - Unitaid
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October 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Unitaid welcomes Ambassador Anne-Claire Amprou, French Ambassador for Global Health, as the new Chair of its Executive Board. She will assume the role following Marisol Touraine’s term at the end of the 48th Board session in December 2025.

Learn more: unitaid.org/news-blog/am...
Ambassador Anne Claire Amprou appointed new Chair of Unitaid’s Executive Board - Unitaid
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October 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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El Dr. Héctor Coto (OPS) presentando ayer en Belém el plan estratégico para el abordaje integral de la enfermedad de #Chagas en la región, durante la reunión de la 🌎 Comisión Intergubernamental de la Iniciativa de los Países Amazónicos

#Brasil #BeatNTDs #NTDs #Agenda2030 #Salud @unitaid.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Unitaid works to make the best HIV tools available faster and at lower cost. Dolutegravir changed treatment. Oral PrEP changed prevention. Now lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injection, could change what’s possible for millions at risk of HIV.

Learn more: unitaid.org/uploads/HIV-...
October 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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💉 From $42,250 to $40 — a massive win for equitable HIV prevention.

Thanks to catalytic funding & technical support from the
@gatesfoundation.bsky.social, @unitaid.bsky.social, & others, the cost for the two annual shots of Lenacapavir will drop to $40.

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Support For Indian Manufacturers To Produce Cheap Generics Of HIV 'Miracle' Drug, Lenacapavir - Health Policy Watch
Two Indian manufacturers will be able to mass-produce cheap generic versions of the HIV 'miracle' drug, lenacapavir, which almost eliminates HIV transmission
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October 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Unitaid congratulates the Maldives on this historic milestone. Through SAFEStart+, part of our broader EVT efforts, we help countries integrate screening and prevention of HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B and Chagas into antenatal care.

Learn more: www.who.int/news/item/13...
Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B
In a landmark public health achievement, WHO has validated the Maldives for eliminating mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of hepatitis B, while maintaining its earlier validation (in 2019) for EMTC...
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October 14, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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We invite all participants at AHMTEC2025 to join us tomorrow as Unitaid, US Pharmacopeia (USP) and @path.org unveil our US$50M regional manufacturing portfolio which features MedSuRe Africa and MADE in Africa, and strengthens local manufacturing & advances a more self-reliant Africa.
October 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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This year, the World Health Summit will take place at a new venue: the InterContinental Berlin. 
 
📍 Budapester Straße 2, 10787 Berlin
 
You can easily plan your route and find ticket information via the local public transport website or app of the BVG

#WHS2025
📷 © InterContinental Berlin
October 8, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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At PAHO’s Directing Council, Robert Matiru highlighted SAFEStart+ and lenacapavir, reaffirming Unitaid’s commitment to advancing HIV prevention, maternal and child health, and disease elimination in partnership with PAHO and countries across the Americas.

Watch here: youtu.be/gsPs1qB4odQ
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October 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Oxygen is a lifesaving treatment, but reliable access remains inadequate across the globe, especially in LMICs.

On #WorldOxygenDay, we're shining a light on 4 missing pieces 🧩 to help achieve universal #OxygenAccess: https://bit.ly/4o6z2p3

#InvestInOxygen @unitaid.bsky.social @unicef.org @who.int
A graphic titled "Missing pieces toward universal oxygen access," showing four puzzle pieces: Oxygen for noncommunicable diseases, Oxygen for newborn care, Oxygen for pandemic preparedness, and Oxygen innovations. The hashtag #InvestInOxygen is in the bottom right corner.
October 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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This #WorldOxygenDay, construction is underway in Kenya and Tanzania to expand local medical oxygen production. These new facilities will provide hospitals and clinics across East Africa with a reliable and affordable supply of a life-saving medicine.

Learn more: unitaid.org/news-blog/bu...
Building oxygen access from the ground up: an update on the East African Program on Oxygen Access - Unitaid
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October 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Teoreler is a free online PBPK modelling application. With support from @unitaid.bsky.social, our team work really hard to continually update Teoreler and add new models.

Find out more if you're new to Teoreler, or leave us feedback if you're not, via the link: www.liverpool.ac.uk/centre-of-ex...
Dr Rajith Rajoli is using modelling software on their computer. Over the image reads "Teoreler: A web-based physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modelling application for the simulation and extrapolation of drug use scenarios. This application simulates drug pharmacokinetics of small molecules using complex mathematical equations to predict the efficacy of drugs in the human body in a variety of species and populations."
September 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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⏱️ Outbreaks don’t wait. Diagnostics shouldn’t either.

A new independent report by IPPS, Brown University (@pandemiccenter.bsky.social) and FIND highlights the persistent barriers in diagnostic preparedness undermining efforts to prevent future pandemics.

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September 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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3️⃣ #Lenacapavir- #PrEP für 40 $ pro Person und Jahr: @unitaid.bsky.social, die Clinton Health Access Initiative und Wits RHI haben eine Vereinbarung mit dem indischen Produzenten Dr. Reddy's Laboratories getroffen, um für 120 besonders von #HIV betroffene Ländern Zugang zu schaffen.
Unitaid, CHAI, and Wits RHI enter into a landmark agreement with Dr. Reddy’s to make HIV prevention tool lenacapavir affordable in LMICs - Clinton Health Access Initiative
The revolutionary HIV prevention tool, injectable lenacapavir, will be available at a cost of US$40 a year in 120 low- and middle-income countries starting in 2027, under a new partnership announced t...
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September 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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News from other long-acting teams:

- @unitaid.bsky.social, Clinton Health Access Initiative and Wits RHI: agreement with Dr Reddy's Laboratories to make affordable lenacapavir
- @unaids.org respond to the announcement of making affordable HIV preventatives.

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A person is holding a vial of lenacapavir
September 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM