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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 World AIDS Day: December 1

Caption Description As there is no money for a coffin, the body of Iren Maduwa, who has just died of AIDS, has been wrapped in her blanket and placed in a carrier made by her family and friends, who will escort her body to a nearby grave. Her husband, Joel, who infected her with HIV, was in Harare when she died. He died three months later.

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Production Date 01/01/2001 11:05:25 AM

Country Zimbabwe

Credit UN Photo/Michel Szulc-Kryzanowski

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