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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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Caption Description Two AIDS orphans on the grave of their parents inside their house near Gikongoro, Rwanda. Since the death of their parents, the children have had to take care of themselves.

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Production Date 01/01/2001 9:44:19 AM

Country Rwanda

Credit UN Photo/Chris Sattlberger

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