WHO releases a new fact sheet basing on HIV drug resistance survey findings. The World Health Day 2011 highlights the need to "Combat Drug Resistance" in improving access to treatment for diseases such as HIV. Antiretroviral treatment for HIV has been rapidly scaled up in developing countries in the past decade without major emergence of drug resistance. However, WHO recommends a minimum-resource strategy for prevention and assessment of HIV drug resistance for resource-limited countries.

• Factsheet: HIV drug resistance
• More on WHO and HIV drug resistance

Upcoming World Health Assembly (WHA) will discuss the Draft Global Health Sector Strategy for HIV, 2011-2015, developed by WHO. The Strategy was requested by the previous WHA and received broad support from the 128th Executive Board in January 2011. The Strategy, after being reviewed and adopted by WHA, aims to guide the global health sector actions, in particular, confirming key priorities by WHO and countries in the next phase of the response to HIV/AIDS.

Thirty years into the AIDS epidemic, and 10 years since the landmark UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, the world will come together to review progress and chart the future course of the global AIDS response at the 2011 UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS from 8–10 June 2011 in New York. The High-Level Meeting is being held at a critical time to move from universal access agenda to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.