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China marks International AIDS Candlelight Memorial Day

19 June 2019

The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, coordinated by the Global Network of People Living with HIV, is one of the world’s oldest and largest grassroots mobilization campaigns for HIV awareness in the world. In May, the UNAIDS country office in China invited members of community-based organizations to lead a commemorative event to mark the 36th International AIDS Candlelight Memorial at the United Nations headquarters in Beijing.       

Organized by the Man Wellness Center and Beijing Love Without Border Foundation under the theme of "Ignite Hope, Blessing for Love,” the event brought together community members, activists, young people, healthcare providers, private sector representatives and other people working in the response. They remembered those lost to AIDS-related illnesses and re-committed their efforts to end the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030.  

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During the ceremony, the director of UNESCO’s Beijing office, Ms. Marielza Oliveira, welcomed the significant advances made in the response to AIDS, emphasizing the medical and scientific advances that could now be used to reduce the impact of the epidemic. She called on people to join together to reduce the stigma and discrimination associated with the virus to ensure that everybody could share in the progress being made.

Participants at the event received the latest material about HIV treatment and prevention options.

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Civil society activists in China are working hard to get the message across that as long as people living with HIV take treatment regularly and are virally suppressed, they are not infectious: Undetectable = Untransmittable.        

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Young people were prominent at the event. Volunteers from the Core Group for AIDS Prevention and the Red Cross Society of China’s Beijing branch attended and committed themselves to creating a discrimination-free environment for people living with and affected by HIV.

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As dusk fell, people lit candles in memory of those that have been lost to AIDS-related illnesses.

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At the end of the ceremony, people came together to place their candles on a commemorative red ribbon.

The event once again demonstrated the central role played by communities in the response to the AIDS epidemic.

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Naomi Campbell, Marc Jacobs and UNAIDS announce collaboration on limited edition T-shirt for World AIDS Day

01 December 2017

GENEVA, 1 December 2017—The celebrated fashion designer Marc Jacobs has designed a limited edition T-shirt to raise funds for UNAIDS’ activities in support of people around the world living with or affected by HIV. The T-shirt will retail for US$ 55 and is on sale at marcjacobs.com.

The T-shirt chimes with the theme of this World AIDS Day campaign, #myrighttohealth. Everyone, regardless of who they are or where they live, has a right to health.

Actress, model and activist Naomi Campbell came up with the initial idea for the collaboration.

“It felt only right to collaborate with Marc Jacobs,” said Ms Campbell. “Given his understanding of the global HIV epidemic and the many friends we have lost to the disease, there’s no one I’d rather work with to continue bringing awareness to UNAIDS.”

UNAIDS is excited to work with Ms Campbell and Mr Jacobs, who are both long-standing advocates for an AIDS response that leaves no one behind. The collaboration has been coordinated by the CAA Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Creative Artists Agency (CAA), which represents Ms Campbell.

“Naomi Campbell’s long history of commitment to humanitarianism is both remarkably commendable and genuine,” said Mr Jacobs. “I was honoured to be asked by her to collaborate on this T-shirt in support of UNAIDS as a continued effort to raise awareness for this globally important cause.”

Ms Campbell and Mr Jacobs particularly want to raise awareness about the vulnerability of young people to HIV. There were an estimated 610 000 new HIV infections among young people aged 15 to 24 years in 2016, with young women accounting for 59% of new infections among that age group. In eastern and southern Africa, young women aged 15 to 24 years make up two thirds of new HIV infections among that age group.

“Young women face many challenges as they transition into adulthood and the rules are often stacked against them,” said UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé. “This special T-shirt will help UNAIDS continue our work to level the playing field and advance young women to make independent and life-changing decisions and assert their right to health.”

Gender inequalities, including gender-based violence, exacerbate the vulnerability of women and girls to HIV and block their access to HIV services. Young people are often denied the information and freedom they need to make free and informed decisions about their sexual health, with most lacking the knowledge required to protect themselves from HIV. Research also shows the importance of keeping girls in school for as long as possible, since young women who have no formal education are twice as likely to become infected with HIV as young women who have had some schooling.

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The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) leads and inspires the world to achieve its shared vision of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths. UNAIDS unites the efforts of 11 UN organizations—UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, UNDP, UNFPA, UNODC, UN Women, ILO, UNESCO, WHO and the World Bank—and works closely with global and national partners towards ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals. Learn more at unaids.org and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

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Grassroots hero: thinking out of the box by mixing health and fun

15 August 2017

There is a quiet hum in the room from the mostly young men sitting in chairs, eyeing their smartphones and chatting. Suddenly, a cheerful figure bursts into the executive lounge of the high-rise building in Taguig City, Philippines.

“Thank you, thank you,” said Ronivin (Vinn) Garcia Pagtakhan, the Executive Director and Founder of LoveYourself, a community-based organization providing health and empowerment services to men who have sex with men and transgender people. The team were wrapping up after a major event promoting HIV testing.

Mr Pagtakhan, with his shock of brown hair, frosted with a light green tint, bounced from one group to the next, joking and repeating his thanks.

Almost everyone here is a volunteer,” explained Mr Pagtakhan. “I get really moved when I talk about my volunteers. I owe everything to them.”

LoveYourself provides HIV testing and treatment services, as well as oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and tuberculosis screening. It has 25 staff members, who are supported by around 800 volunteers. Mr Pagtakhan founded LoveYourself in 2011, modelling it on a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth centre he volunteered in while living in San Francisco, United States of America.

“At the time, I felt there was a real problem with the way we were handling HIV prevention among the gay community in the Philippines,” said Mr Pagtakhan. “It was all about fear. I wanted something more optimistic and encouraging. I wanted a place that was lively, where people would want to hang out.”

He was only 25 years old at the time. “As they say, I know my market, because I am part of the community.”

He graduated from nursing school in the Philippines when he was 18 and got the fourth highest score on the national nursing board examinations. “This meant that I was in high demand by other candidates as a teacher helping to prepare people for their licensing exams. I travelled around the Philippines giving classes and I used social media to reach out to students as well,” said Mr Pagtakhan.

He became a celebrity on social media, with 600 000 followers on Twitter, and won the prestigious international Twitter Shorty Awards as the Nurse of the Year. The prize money helped start LoveYourself.

“The first three years, it was like sending your child off to college. I basically supported the organization on my earnings. We didn’t have any donors,” said Mr Pagtakhan. “I like to think out of the box and I had a particular vision. I didn’t want grants to dictate what we did or became. I wanted to create ripples of positive change in the community. LoveYourself isn’t just about HIV, but rather about increasing a person’s self-worth.

The organization has three community centres in the Manila, Philippines, area offering HIV testing and other services. Anyone can drop in, even on the weekends and in the evenings, for free health services.

LoveYourself tested about 20 000 people in 2016 and diagnosed around 1500 new HIV infcetions, which represent around 50% of the newly diagnosed HIV cases reported by the Department of Health in Manila. LoveYourself also works with companies and schools to help them develop HIV policies and to conduct on-site HIV tests.

In July, the organization began piloting PrEP and with support from UNAIDS and the World Health Organization plans to start a demonstration project offering self-testing before the end of the year.

In just six years, LoveYourself has grown to become an important HIV service provider in Manila. Mr Pagtakhan is proud of the organization’s achievements and has bigger ambitions. “We are still renting. I want LoveYourself to own a place, which is a community centre, where we can have health services but also original events and activities,” he said.

For more information on LoveYourself, go to http://www.loveyourself.ph.

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UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach ramps up HIV advocacy efforts

09 August 2017

Miss Universe 2015 and UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific, Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach has launched an HIV awareness campaign with a public HIV screening. On 9 August, the model and actress, along with Mayor Lani Cayetano of Taguig City in the Philippines undertook the screening which was conducted by the community organization LoveYourself in Taguig City.

“As the UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific, I wanted to start my HIV advocacy here at home in the Philippines,” said Ms Wurtzbach. “It’s important because the country has the fastest growing HIV epidemic in the region.”

A recent UNAIDS report has found that new HIV infections in the Philippines increased 140% between 2010 and 2016. Taguig City is one of the 17 cities in the Metro Manila area, which account for 40% of new infections in the country. Mayor Cayetano is the national chairperson of the League of Cities in the Philippines and promised to encourage other cities to scale-up HIV testing.

“The city of Taguig will always be here to support you Pia,” said Mayor Cayetano.

Ms Wurtzbach unveiled the project Progressive Information Awareness campaign, or the PIA project which aims to inform young people about HIV through social media, youth-friendly and informative videos, as well as promote policies which will enable young people, particularly from key populations to access HIV and other key health services. The PIA project is also working with a coalition of government, non-profit organizations and business partners on a major fundraising and award World AIDS Day Gala.

“With the PIA Project we hope to see an increase in HIV awareness, spread love for people living with HIV, and make HIV testing among Filipinos a normal part of their health and wellness routine,” said Ms Wurtzbach.

Across Asia and the Pacific young people from key populations are at higher risk of HIV.

“The HIV movement among young people that Pia is lighting up here in the Philippines will resonate around the Asia-Pacific region,” said Eamonn Murphy, Director, UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Asia-Pacific.

Paris stepping up to end AIDS

04 July 2017

The Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé, emphasized the importance of cities in ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 during a speech to the Council of Paris on 4 July, highlighting that cities can use their HIV responses as a transformative force for society.

In his address, Mr Sidibé also spoke of the challenges faced in western and central Africa, where three out of four people living with HIV do not have access to HIV treatment. The African Union has endorsed an emergency catch-up for western and central Africa that sets a target of an additional 1.2 million people on treatment over the next 18 months. The emergency plan places a focus on cities and challenges mayors to take the lead. Mr Sidibé noted that support from Paris can assist western and central African countries to bridge the gaps and reach their goals.

Mr Sidibé finished his address with a call for unity across city borders and country boundaries. “Let us tackle inequalities together. We must not lose focus. Rather, let us continue to fully fund the response in Paris, but also support partners in Africa to tackle inequalities and fragilities.”

Following his address, the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, invited Mr Sidibé to join the Let’s Make Paris the City of Love without AIDS! (#FaisonslAmour) campaign. #FaisonslAmour channels the spirit of Paris, uniting Parisians around the target of ending AIDS while raising awareness around the HIV treatment and prevention options available. #FaisonslAmour aims to inform people about the need to know their HIV status and seek treatment early, and to raise awareness about the availability of pre-exposure prophylaxis.

Six Parisians are profiled in the campaign, who reflect the reality of the epidemic within an inclusive city, proud of its diversity. One of the profiles highlights the efficacy of treatment as prevention. The campaign is the first in France to state that a person living with HIV adhering to an effective antiretroviral regime will not pass on the virus. Speaking about the radical campaign, Ms Hidalgo said, “Together, we must mobilize and be vigilant, but, above all, we must act to prevent new infections by delivering just and appropriate messages.”

The #FaisonslAmour campaign is a significant step towards ending AIDS in Paris and demonstrates that Paris is providing leadership in the response to HIV. The campaign is co-chaired by the City of Paris and the Vers Paris sans SIDA association, with the support of the MAC AIDS Fund, and produced by Agence Australie. The posters will be displayed across Paris from 28 June to 25 July.

Immune Nations

23 May 2017

In a dark room, you see a shadow of yourself on a large screen—white lights create spots that arc across the screen and onto your body.

It’s the deadly Shadowpox trying to infect you.

Watching your shadow-self on the screen, you try to sweep the spots off your body. More spots appear and you realize the virus isn’t just attacking you, it’s attacking everyone around you. What do you do now?

This is the type of question people are faced with in Shadowpox, an art installation that is part of the new Immune Nations exhibition. Using interactive projections, Shadowpox gives participants a unique experience of fighting a virus with a vaccine while trying to save the people around them by what public health officials call herd immunity—when enough people are immunized against a disease that other people who are not immunized have some protection against infection, because the spread of contagious disease is contained.

The questions and decisions people face when interacting with Shadowpox are similar to public health scenarios being played out around the world. And it is exactly the kind of thinking a grant by the Research Council of Norway tried to provoke by bringing artists, researchers and policy-makers into a room together to see how they might reframe the current discourse surrounding vaccination.

“We are interested in exploring the role that art and culture could have in informing global health decision-making,” said Steven Hoffman, a law professor at the University of Ottawa and co-lead of the Vaccine Project.

In the summer of 2015, renowned artists and experts gathered at the University of Ottawa, where concepts for the evidence-based art exhibition emerged. Shadowpox was imagined by a group of collaborators led by Alison Humphrey and Caitlin Fisher. The idea started with a new vaccine-preventable disease composed of viral shadows. The concept was part fact and part science fantasy. The mixed-reality installation combines real-world statistical data with live-animated digital effects. “The final work is equally stunning, fun and provoking—everything needed to engage people on the issue of vaccines,” said Natalie Loveless, a co-lead and curator for the exhibition.

The Vaccine Project is a multiyear collaboration that has spanned continents and cultures. “More than 100 people and organizations are collaborating on this exhibition,” said Sean Caulfield, a co-lead of the project. “We have representatives from virtual reality labs and universities to governments and the United Nations.”

The exhibition first premiered at Galleri KiT, Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts, in Norway in March 2017 and travelled to UNAIDS headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, where it will be opened by the First Lady of Namibia Monica Geingos on 23 May. The works of art will be exhibited at UNAIDS until 30 June 2017. 

Germany—ending AIDS by 2020

12 May 2017

Sitting in his Mini Cooper, sporting traditional Bavarian lederhosen and a smart black waistcoat, Maik is a picture of health. It is hard to believe that nine years ago he was fighting for his life.

Maik is a 43-year-old engineer and test driver for a large German car manufacturer. He speaks slowly and softly, “Back then I didn’t think I’d ever drive a car again.”

Nine years ago Maik had left his doctors baffled. He had lost 30 kilos, and had become very ill. At the back of his mind, Maik knew he might have HIV—as a gay man he knew he was at higher risk of infection, but he was careful, and his last HIV test, 10 years ago, was negative. But he was worried. “I had the old pictures of AIDS in my head,” he said. “I was very scared.”

Despite the unmistakable symptoms, his doctor didn’t offer him an HIV test, but sent him home with throat lozenges for his mouth infection. “For me,” said Maik “This was proof enough that I didn’t have HIV.”

It was only when he was referred to a specialist that the possibility of HIV was raised and Maik was offered an HIV test. The results came back positive. Maik had HIV and his immune system was weakening. “I thought, I’m going to die because I didn’t have the courage to take an HIV test.”

At home he gave his partner the choice. “Either leave now or stay and watch me die.”

His partner stayed and Maik was given antiretroviral therapy.

Incredibly, just six weeks later, he was back at work. “I have been improbably lucky,” said Maik. He now works a full 40-hour week and makes time for sport.

Maik has shared his story to inspire and encourage others to test for HIV as part of the campaign by the German nongovernmental organization Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe to end AIDS in Germany by 2020. The campaign, Kein AIDS für Alle, aims to stop new HIV infections and ensure that by 2020 no one in Germany will develop AIDS.

“Ending the AIDS epidemic is within reach for Germany and ensuring that people know their status and can access treatment is critical to reaching that goal,” said Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS.


HIV in Germany (2015 data from Robert Koch Institute)

85 000 people are living with HIV

72 000 people know their HIV-positive status

60 700 people are on antiretroviral treatment

3200 new HIV infections

<500 AIDS-related deaths


HIV treatment has been available in Germany for more than 20 years, preventing the onset of AIDS and allowing people living with HIV to live longer, healthier lives. However, it is estimated that every year more than 1000 people in Germany develop AIDS because of late diagnosis or because they are not accessing treatment.

“There are many reasons why people don’t take an HIV test. Some think they’re not at risk, even doctors don’t always recognize the need to test for HIV,” said Silke Klumb of Deutsche AIDS Hilfe. “There’s also still a huge fear of stigma and discrimination in Germany. And, unfortunately, not everyone has access to HIV services; undocumented migrants, for example, are one group that is being left behind.”

The Kein AIDS für Alle campaign will inform people about the risks of HIV infection and show that a positive test for HIV is not a death sentence, but the first step to living a long and healthy life.

“Don’t wait until it's too late,” affirms Maik. “Get tested regularly. A positive HIV diagnosis is a dramatic experience. But you can live well with HIV, providing you get treatment.”


HIV is the virus that causes HIV infection. AIDS is the most advanced stage of HIV infection.


The campaign will aim to eliminate stigma and discrimination around HIV and encourage members of key populations to access HIV prevention, testing, treatment and care services through innovative initiatives. There will also be support for doctors as part of efforts to improve timely diagnosis of HIV.

Deutsche AIDS Hilfe is an independent, non-profit association with 120 autonomous member organizations, including AIDS and drug treatment service organizations, HIV prevention projects, gay and lesbian centres and housing and home care projects. Together, they are committed to HIV prevention, treatment care and support and advocacy around HIV in Germany.

As part of efforts to achieve the commitments in the 2016 United Nations Political Declaration on Ending AIDS, UNAIDS is working to support community-led service delivery and build the capacity of civil society organizations to deliver HIV prevention, treatment and care services based on a non-discriminatory approach that respects, promotes and protects human rights. 

UNAIDS appoints Pia Wurtzbach as Goodwill Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific

03 May 2017

UNAIDS has appointed Pia Wurtzbach, Miss Universe 2015, as a Goodwill Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific. The announcement was made at a special event with students at Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines.

“I am very happy to be a UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador for Asia and the Pacific,” said Ms Wurtzbach. “I’m overwhelmed. It’s been a dream of mine to work with the United Nations. I will do my best. I will use my voice for this cause.”

In her new role, Ms Wurtzbach will raise HIV awareness among young people and promote zero discrimination towards people living with HIV and key populations, including men who have sex with men and transgender people.

“Many young people still do not have the skills and knowledge to protect themselves from HIV,” said Steve Kraus, Director of the UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Asia and the Pacific. “With her huge popularity among young fans and immense following on social media, Ms Wurtzbach will amplify our efforts and help end the AIDS epidemic in the region.”

Ms Wurtzbach has been actively involved in humanitarian affairs, speaking out against cyberbullying and supporting people living with HIV, as well as the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community. During her reign as Miss Universe, she had an HIV test in front of cameras to encourage people to know their HIV status, and attended the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS in New York, United States of America.

The appointment event was attended by young people from different universities in the Metro Manila area, as well as representatives of the United Nations, government officials, the media and the Act!2030 Philippines network and other community groups representing young people and key populations.

The Asia and Pacific region has made progress in its HIV response, with new infections dropping by 5% among people of all ages between 2010 and 2015. However, in 2015, young people accounted for 37% of new HIV infections and data analysis indicates that there is a significant epidemic of HIV among an increasingly younger group of gay men and other men who have sex with men in urban areas of South-East Asia and China.

Surveys conducted in eight countries in Asia found that comprehensive knowledge of HIV among young people is low, increasing their vulnerability to HIV. UNAIDS and its partners are conducting an HIV awareness campaign for youth on social media with the hashtag #Live2LUV and Ms Wurtzbach will be helping to promote this campaign as part of her new advocacy role.

Posters at Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum depict the AIDS response through the years

03 May 2017

An exhibition at the Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva, Switzerland, traces the AIDS response through posters and art from around the world over the past 30 years. The Fight against AIDS in Images explores the evolution of how HIV has been portrayed in campaigns encompassing sexuality, politics, stigma and HIV prevention—from using an image of a skull to the red ribbon, from depicting HIV as a death sentence to showing people living positively with HIV and from spreading fear to using humour.

“The point of our exhibition is not the disease itself, but all the communication materials around it,” said the Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum Director, Roger Mayou. “The many posters are a true mirror of society through the ages.”

The exhibition begins with Nan Goldin photographs from the mid-1980s as part of the first thematic, Other People’s Disease, highlighting how HIV was seen at the time to be concentrated among key populations.

The second theme, Silence is Broken, highlights how civil society and public figures raised their voices to address HIV. The iconic image of the pink triangle with the saying “Silence = Death” dates back to 1987 and was a part of the New York AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) campaign.

Next comes AIDS and the Media. The death in 1990 of an American boy named Ryan White, who was infected with HIV by contaminated blood, crystallized the fact that the virus can affect anyone. More women and heterosexual couples appeared on posters and many countries crafted messages for national campaigns, as shown by the German posters from 1990 that emphasize “Don’t give AIDS a chance”.

The Virus, the second to last theme, focuses on explaining the science behind AIDS. A rendition of a normal T-cell and an HIV-infected T-cell by the Cancer Institute in 1991 has the slogan “Visualize this”. An Algerian World AIDS Day poster from 1994 likens the virus to mines floating in the ocean with a tagline “Protect the family”.

The last theme, Living Together, introduces the fact that, with the advent of antiretroviral medicines in 1996, HIV need not be fatal. As a result, the Swiss Stop Sida (End AIDS) campaign began to incorporate a “Love life” message on their posters in 2005. A black and white UNAIDS World AIDS Day poster shows a close-up of a man with the tagline “I am accepted”—part of the I am Living My Rights campaign stressing the normality of living life as an HIV-positive person.

“HIV has become invisible, a fatigue has almost set in,” Alexandra Calmy from the HIV unit at the Geneva University Hospitals said. “And yet 2.1 million people are infected with HIV every year, so it is important to talk about AIDS, and this exhibition does just that.”

UNAIDS is working with countries towards ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals.

HIV is everybody’s business

15 November 2016

UNAIDS and Anglo American, one of the world’s largest mining companies, have announced a public–private sector partnership to promote HIV testing worldwide.

Since the early days of the HIV epidemic, Anglo American has experienced first-hand the impact that HIV and tuberculosis (TB) have had on its employees, their families and their communities. For the past three decades, Anglo American has been at the forefront of developing a comprehensive business sector response to HIV and TB. Today, it has a world-class workplace programme offering free HIV testing, counselling and antiretroviral therapy for its employees and their dependents. Anglo American encourages all employees to know their HIV status.

The Sustainable Development Goals provide a new opportunity for the business sector to engage further in the global AIDS response as a powerful, influential and effective partner. Forward-looking companies, like Anglo American, have already demonstrated success in addressing some of the major challenges raised by HIV and TB through business-led ventures that are impactful, scalable, measurable, replicable and go beyond “business as usual”.

During the International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, in July 2016, a UNAIDS and Anglo American initiative to promote HIV testing reached over 6 million people via social media channels and got over 100 000 “protests” on the ProTest HIV website—www.protesthiv.org. In the run up to this year’s World AIDS Day, 1 December, Anglo American is encouraging all its employees to get tested for HIV and to engage in activities that will help to raise awareness on HIV testing worldwide.

Ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 will only be achieved by working together. This new partnership demonstrates the power of collective action in mobilizing people around the world.

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“Anglo American demonstrates that providing HIV and tuberculosis services isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s also a good investment. Business cannot succeed in societies that fail. We are pleased to partner with Anglo American in promoting HIV testing and encourage companies everywhere to scale up their efforts to end AIDS by 2030.”

Michel Sidibé UNAIDS Executive Director

“We recognize the profound importance of human rights in shaping our response to HIV, and, for that matter, to any disease. Our approach to HIV is based primarily on a moral imperative: the need for business to realize the right to health for all of our employees. Anglo American has been a pioneer in the AIDS response for over 30 years. In our efforts to achieve an HIV-free generation, collaboration is vital and we are proud to partner with UNAIDS in this effort.”

Mark Cutifani Chief Executive, Anglo American

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