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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.

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Headline Open Air Embroidery Workshop

Caption Description A group of HIV positive women has started an open air embroidery workshop to boost income as well as confidence which helps in empowerment of women in Honduras.

Unique Identifier UN7715281

NICA ID 138811

Production Date 06/14/2006 3:26:52 AM

City/Location San Juan

Country Honduras

Credit UN Photo/Mark Garten

File size 3.54 MB