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AIDS, the Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome, is the late stage of infection caused by a virus, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Globally an estimated 34 million people are now living with HIV/AIDS. Of this number, 14 million are women and 1.2 are children under fourteen years of age.
A volunteer holding a child with AIDS, in Port-au-Prince. [c. 1999]

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (front, right) chats with Annie Lennox, newly-appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé, inside the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C., during the 2010 Women Deliver conference.

An HIV+ girl in a bed at the Kangasati Health Centre in Uganda.

Unique ID UN7ALB50451

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Headline World AIDS Day: December 1

Caption Description The results of a rapid test for HIV/AIDS at Baragwanath Hospital's maternity section in Soweto. In the samples shown, three positive tests appear chalky against the black test scale while a negative test is opaque.

Unique Identifier UN7312848

NICA ID 20009

Production Date 01/01/2001 11:06:06 AM

Country South Africa

Credit UN Photo/Louise Gubb

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