
Press Statement
UNAIDS Executive Director’s message for World AIDS Day 2012
29 novembre 2012 29 novembre 2012To the millions who have come together with compassion and determination on this World AIDS Day, we say: “Your blood, sweat and tears are changing the world.” We have moved from despair to hope. Far fewer people are dying from AIDS. 25 countries have reduced new infections by more than 50%. I want these results in every country.
The pace of progress is quickening. It is unprecedented—what used to take a decade is now being achieved in just 24 months. Now that we know rapid and massive scale up of HIV programmes is possible, we need to do more. Friends, we only have a thousand days left before the deadline of the 2015 global AIDS targets.
So today, on World AIDS Day, let us renew our commitment to getting to zero. Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS-related deaths.
Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS Executive Director
World AIDS Day 2012
- The UNAIDS World AIDS Day Report 2012 was launched on 20 November 2012 in multiple locations around the world
- Ahead of World AIDS Day CEOs call to end HIV travel restrictions (28 November 2012)
- UNAIDS encourages Haiti to eliminate HIV in children (1 December 2012)
- UNAIDS to host Google+ Hangout ahead of World AIDS Day 2012 (23 November 2012)
- UNAIDS and the Stop TB Partnership join forces to stop HIV/TB deaths (27 November 2012)
- New generation of fashion designers supports UNAIDS in “Getting to Zero” (9 November 2012)
- UNAIDS and Standard Bank Group partner to bring HIV awareness to the workplace (29 November 2012)
- Peru launches campaign to increase HIV testing among men (29 November 2012)
- UNAIDS International Goodwill Ambassador Aishwarya Rai Bachchan supporting pregnant women living with HIV on World AIDS Day (29 November 2012)
- Haiti’s HIV successes and challenges acknowledged on World AIDS Day (2 December 2012)
- UNAIDS and Italian football team up against AIDS (29 November 2012)
Reports
World AIDS Day report: Results, by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), shows that unprecedented acceleration in the AIDS response is producing results for people. The report shows that a more than 50% reduction in the rate of new HIV infections has been achieved across 25 low- and middle-income countries––more than half in Africa, the region most affected by HIV.
The following slides are a compilation of the epidemiology data and graphics contained in the 2012 Global Report: Epidemiology slides - en | fr | es | ru
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