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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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World AIDS Day: December 1

01/01/2001 11:06:00

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Director-General of WHO, Executive Director of UNAIDS and Executive Director of Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB And Malaria, Guests at Noon Briefing

09/22/2003 12:38:45

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Director-General of WHO, Executive Director of UNAIDS and Executive Director of Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB And Malaria, Guests at Noon Briefing

09/22/2003 12:29:50

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Headline World AIDS Day: December 1

Caption Description Traditional healers or "sangomas" who dispense traditional medicine and cures to the majority of the rural population, and who have been drawn into the fight against HIV/AIDS by NGOs who have taught them about the importance of hygiene and education in fighting the spread of HIV epidemic.
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Unique Identifier UN7312861

NICA ID 20022

Production Date 01/01/2001 11:07:18 AM

Credit UN Photo/Louise Gubb

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