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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 AIDS

Caption Description An eight-year-old boy in the hospital in Budango, Tanzania. While being treated for malaria at the hospital, the boy received an injection with an HIV-infected needle. Within a short time he developed AIDS. Now he is back in the hospital where there is little the doctors can do to help him.

Unique Identifier UN7312745

NICA ID 19890

Production Date 01/01/2001 9:44:12 AM

Country United Republic of Tanzania

Credit UN Photo/Michel Szulc-Kryzanowski

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