World Aids Day
Every year, on 1 December, the world commemorates World AIDS Day. People around the world unite to show support for people living with and affected by HIV and to remember those who lost their lives to AIDS.
FORUM: "Global solidarity, shared responsibility", World Aids Day 2020.
The commemoration of World AIDS Day; 1 December is an important opportunity to recognize the essential role that communities have played and continue to play in the HIV infection response at the international, national and local levels. UNAIDS on People who are affected and infected by HIV and AIDS virus. In 2020, the world’s attention has been focused by the COVID-19 pandemic on health and how pandemics affect lives and livelihoods. COVID-19 is showing once again how health is interlinked with other critical issues, such as reducing inequality, human rights, gender equality, social protection and economic growth. With this in mind, this year the theme of World AIDS Day is “Global solidarity, shared responsibility”. COVID-19 has demonstrated that, during a pandemic, no one is safe until everyone is safe. Leaving people behind is not an option if we are to succeed. Eliminating stigma and discrimination, putting people at the centre and grounding our responses in human rights and gender-responsive approaches are key to ending the colliding pandemics of HIV and COVID-19. In a new report, Prevailing against pandemics by putting people at the centre, UNAIDS is calling on countries to make far greater investments in global pandemic responses and to adopt a new set of bold, ambitious but achievable HIV targets. If those targets are met, the world will be back on track to ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. Find out more about World AIDS Day 2020.
Statement by UN General Assembly President of the 75th session of the General Assembly on World AIDS Day 2020.
Gunilla Carlsson (UNAIDS) on the UNAIDS Global AIDS Update - Press Conference.
23 Jul 2019 - Guest: Gunilla Carlsson UNAIDS Executive Director on the UNAIDS Global AIDS Update. To brief reporters on the UNAIDS Global AIDS Update and the report on Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS.
The Launch of the World AIDS Day 2016 report - Press Conference.
26 Nov 2019 - Briefing by Ninan Varughese, Director a.i. of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) New York Office, on the launch of the World AIDS Day report.
Announcement of the appointment of a new UNAIDS International Goodwill Ambassador - Press Conference.
7 Jun 2016 - Press briefing by Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS, Annemarie Hou, UNAIDS Director of Communications And Global Advocacy, and Mr Kenneth Cole, amfAR Chair and leading fashion designer on his appointment as a UNAIDS International Goodwill Ambassador.
World AIDS Day 2017 - Press Conference.
1 Dec 2017 - Press conference by Mr. Simon Bland, Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) New York Office, on the occasion of World AIDS Day
World Health Organization issues new guidance on HIV self-testing ahead of the World AIDS Day.
29 Nov 2016 - In advance of World AIDS Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) has released new guidelines on HIV self-testing to improve access to and uptake of HIV diagnosis. HIV self-testing means people can use oral fluid or blood- finger-pricks to discover their status in a private and convenient setting, and get results within 20 minutes or less. Those with positive results are advised to seek confirmatory tests at health clinics. According to WHO, lack of an HIV diagnosis is a major obstacle to implementing the Organization’s recommendation that everyone with HIV should be offered antiretroviral therapy (ART).
World AIDS Day (1 December)
23 Nov 2016 - Ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals is possible, but only if we join forces to Fast-Track the response to HIV today. World AIDS Day
World AIDS Day 2015 - Press Conference.
30 Nov 2015 - Simon Bland, Director of the New York Liaison Office for UNAIDS briefed the media at Headquarters on the occasion of World AIDS Day. Theme 2015: On the Fast-Track to end AIDS. Ending the AIDS epidemic as part of the Sustainable Development Goals. World Aids Day 2015 (WAD2015)
Shaping the Future - Ending AIDS by 2030.
25 Sep 2014 - Shaping the Future- Ending AIDS by 2030
Event organized by Ghana, Switzerland and UNAIDS