{"id":50670,"date":"2026-07-10T12:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/50670\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T16:21:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:21:27","slug":"%d9%86%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%8a%d9%88%d8%b1%d9%83-%d8%b3%d9%84%d8%b7%d9%86%d8%a9-%d8%b9%d9%8f%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%aa%d8%b4%d8%a7%d8%b1%d9%83-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d8%ac%d8%aa%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b9-%d8%b5%d8%ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/50670\/","title":{"rendered":"New York: Oman pledges to eliminate HIV\/AIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sultanate of Oman reaffirmed its commitment to global efforts to end HIV\/AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 during a high level meeting on HIV\/AIDS held at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/policy\/multilateral-relations\/#united-nations\">United Nations<\/a> Headquarters in New York.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to the General Assembly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/missions\/om-us-new-york-pm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ambassador Omar Alkathiri, Oman&#8217;s Permanent\u00a0 Representative to the United Nations,<\/a> highlighted the Ministry of Health&#8217;s commitment to investing in maternal and child health as a cornerstone of sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p>The statement also outlined the continued development of Oman&#8217;s national healthcare system based on equity, universal health coverage and the protection of human rights.<\/p>\n<p>The statement highlighted Oman&#8217;s achievement of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Health Organisation<\/a>&#8216;s global validation certificate in 2022, making it the first country in the Middle East and North Africa to eliminate mother to child transmission of HIV and syphilis.<\/p>\n<p>Reaching this milestone was attributed to the effectiveness of the country&#8217;s primary healthcare programmes, which achieved zero cases of mother to child HIV transmission and maintained high screening coverage among pregnant women.<\/p>\n<p>Oman concluded its statement by reaffirming its commitment to implementing the recommendations of the World Health Organisation, strengthening surveillance, prevention and treatment systems and raising public awareness to sustain this national public health achievement and support the drive towards relevant international targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sultanate of Oman reaffirmed its commitment to global efforts to end HIV\/AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 during a high level meeting on HIV\/AIDS held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. In a statement to the General Assembly, Ambassador Omar Alkathiri, Oman&#8217;s Permanent\u00a0 Representative to the United Nations, highlighted the Ministry of Health&#8217;s commitment to &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/50670\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[356,1014],"class_list":["post-50670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mission-news","tag-un-en","tag-human-rights-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50670"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50675,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50670\/revisions\/50675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}