UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé speaking at the opening of the XVII International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA). 07 December 2013. Cape Town, South Africa.

From left to right: Former President of Botswana, Festus Mogae, Vice President of South Africa Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe, First Lady of Zambia Christine Kaseba-Sata and UNAIDS Executive Director, Michel Sidibé meeting on sidelines of 17th ICASA conference in Cape Town, South Africa (UNAIDS/Jennifer Bruce)

UNAIDS Executive Director, Michel Sidibé at inauguration of cultural community village at 17th ICASA conference in Cape Town, South Africa (UNAIDS/Jennifer Bruce)

UNAIDS Executive Director, Michel Sidibé at the The ESA Commitment initiative, YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY – TIME TO ACT NOW, with. Mama Kikwete, First Lady of Tanzania 17th ICASA conference in Cape Town, South Africa (UNAIDS/Jennifer Bruce)

(L to R) First Secretary at the German Embassy, Nicola Wertz; Head of HIV & AIDS Unit at Embassy of Sweden in Lusaka; Prudence Mabele, Director of Positive Women’s Network (Prudence is living with HIV and she is one of the 16 women featured in the exhibition); Sheila Tlou, Director of UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa; Jennifer Gatsi (she is also living with HIV and one of the women in the exhibition) Stella Nantumbwe, Miss Uganda 2013/14; and Loyiso Bala, UNAIDS National Goodwill Ambassador for South Africa.

UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé with UNAIDS International Goodwill Ambassador Annie Lennox at ICASA.

Condomize campaign youth mobilizers performing at the XVII International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) on 7 December in Cape Town, South Africa. (UNAIDS/Jennifer Bruce)

UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé at the the leadership panel –Global Plan Towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections Among Children by 2015 and Keeping their Mothers Alive Motlanthe at the XVII International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA)

(L to R) Participants of the XVII International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) visited the “Not me, not mine: Women, girls and HIV” photographic exhibition. The photography essays – supported by UNAIDS and the governments of Sweden and Germany – communicate real life stories of women touched by the HIV epidemic in eastern and southern Africa.

UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé; Dr Clarence Mini, Chairman of Africa Health placements; and the Deputy President of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe at the XVII International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA)

L to R: Chair of the Board of Directors for the African Society for Laboratory Medicine, Trevor Peter;  Chief Executive Officer of the African Society for Laboratory Medicine, Tsehaynesh Messele; UNAIDS Executive Director, Michel Sidibé; and Director of UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa, Sheila Tlou. 

Catherine Hara, Minister of Health, Malawi; and Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS Executive Director

L to R: Catherine Hara, Minister of Health, Malawi; Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS Executive Director; and Mark Dybul, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS Executive Director after the session called Scaling up HIV treatment in Africa: 2015 and beyond.