UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé speaking at the opening ceremony of the AIDS 2014 conference in Melbourne, Australia, 20 July 2014.

Lancet editor Richard Horton; IHME Director Professor Christopher Murray; Deborah Birx, M.D., U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator; UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé and Mark Dybul, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria at the IHME/UNAIDS/Lancet launch event at the AIDS 2014 conference in Melbourne Australia, 22 July 2014.

UNAIDS Executive Director with Ewen McDonald, Deputy Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia. Melbourne, July 2014.

UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé with Hon Roma Ambrose, Minister of Health of Canada at the AIDS 2014 conference in Melbourne, Australia, 21 July 2014.

"Ending AIDS is an opportunity for this generation. We should not miss it. It could be the biggest victory of this century." —UNAIDS Executrive Director Michel Sidibé

Opening ceremony of the AIDS 2014 conference in Melbourne, Australia, 20 July 2014.

UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé at the Cities for Social Transformation Towards Ending AIDS meeting during the AIDS 2014 conference in Melbourne on 20 July 2014. Credit: UNAIDS/M.Fairclough

UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé standing with participants of an AIDS 2014 preconference event in Melbourne, 19 July 2014.

The two-day Global Forum on MSM and HIV, being held on 19 and 20 July under the theme “Setting the pace”, brings together activists, advocates, researchers, policy-makers and representatives of global donors and multilateral organizations, including UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé.

The vital role that a vibrant civil society plays in strengthening and deepening the AIDS response at the national, regional and global levels was recognized and championed by UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé during an informal consultation at AIDS 2014 called Working Together to End the AIDS Epidemic and Leave No One Behind.

The passion, dedication and commitment that young people are bringing to the AIDS response, driving the agenda and taking a leadership role, were celebrated by UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé in closing remarks at the AIDS 2014 youth preconference event.

UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé speaks at the lighting of the AIDS2014 sign on the Princes Bridge in Melbourne, Australia, 18 July 2014.

Victorian Premier Denis Napthine; Victorian Minister for Health David Davis; UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé; YEAH CEO Alischa Ross; Co-Chair of AIDS2014 Sharon Lewin; Lord Mayor of Melbourne Robert Doyle at the lighting of the AIDS2014 sign on the Princes Bridge in Melbourne Australia, 18 July 2014.

UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé.