- About UNAIDS
- Our work
- Targets and commitments
- 2011 Political Declaration: Targets and elimination commitments
- Reducing sexual transmission
- Preventing HIV among drug users
- Eliminating new HIV infections among children
- 15 million accessing treatment
- Avoiding TB deaths
- Closing the resource gap
- Eliminating gender inequalities
- Eliminating stigma and discrimination
- Eliminating travel restrictions
- Strengthening HIV integration
- 2011 Political Declaration: Targets and elimination commitments
UNAIDS Executive Director speeches
- Address by Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS Executive Director to the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers and Good Samaritan Foundation in Rome, 28 May 2011
- Funding sustainable health care is a moral obligation, a right not a luxury. In this, the faith community and the Church are among our strongest allies in calling for robust, comprehensive and lasting national responses to HIV. To do this, the faith communities and the AIDS movement must come together and speak with one voice. The world is not hearing us because we are talking over, and sometimes in opposition to, each other.
- Waking the Lion: Development opportunities in an emerging Africa
- African countries have learned that investing in AIDS is not only the right thing to do, it is the smart thing. It is like putting money in the bank. Averting disability and deaths from AIDS results in higher productivity in factories, farms and office buildings; fewer orphans needing support; and lower costs of medical care for AIDS-related illness.
- UNAIDS Executive Director's Speech on the occasion of Consultation on Church Responses to Sexual Violence, Lambeth Palace Westminster, United Kingdom
- To be a partner for women and girls against violence and injustice, you do not have to be experts on human rights or gender. You do have to be committed to always asking in your daily work: “How can I better engage women and girls to understand what they need? How can I better support human rights, gender equality and an end to sexual and other forms of violence?” These answers should change your work and will enable churches to be more compassionate for the cause of women and girls.
- Ninth General Assembly of the Organization of African First Ladies against HIV/AIDS, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- I am honoured to be here today, and I thank you for your warm welcome. I want to begin by expressing my deep gratitude to OAFLA members for your leadership and contributions to the AIDS response in Africa. I congratulate you, because the work of African First Ladies has been increasingly visible and has made a real difference in the lives of our mothers, sisters and children.
- Report of the UNAIDS Executive Director at the 27th Meeting of the Programme Coordinating Board
- UNAIDS Executive Director, Michel Sidibé, delivered his report to the 27th Meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB). In his report, Mr Sidibé updated the Board on the Joint Programme’s activities since its last meeting in June 2010. He also spoke on recent developments in the AIDS response, the ongoing impact of the global recession, and efforts to make UNAIDS a more effective and efficient organization.
- Partners in Treatment
- I deeply appreciate UNIDO’s leadership on the link between industrial development and public health, and specifically for being a valuable partner to the AIDS response in promoting drug production in developing countries.
- Tenth annual general meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP)
- It is a pleasure to be here in St. Maarten, at this timely and important point in PANCAP’s history. I am truly inspired to be with so many of the very people who broke the conspiracy of silence around AIDS in the Caribbean
- Launch of the Agenda for Accelerating Country Action on Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV
- Like your diamonds, they are precious. And like diamonds, they are unbelievably strong. They are the solid centre of human life—of families, of communities, of care—the places where AIDS is most effectively challenged. And like Liberia’s diamonds, they bring pride to this country, and they deserve to be free.
- Advance global health: achieve the MDGs
- NGOs tackle the work that governments will not do, cannot do, or dont do well. UNAIDS Executive Director calls on NGOs to lead the next big step forward. To make investments and momentum for AIDS into a bridge for producing larger health and development outcomes. Only with the leadership role of NGOs can we take AIDS out of isolation and fully integrate the AIDS response with the MDGs.
- UNAIDS Executive Director’s speech at Lowy Institute
- We meet at a moment in time when the AIDS response is at a crossroads. We have achieved some lasting gains against the epidemic: The conspiracy of silence has been broken. Over five million people are on lifesaving treatment. Infection rates are dropping. People living with HIV and engaged and active in ways we have never before seen. Young people have reduced their HIV prevalence 25% in 15 of the highest-burden countries. We expect to virtually eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV in just a few years
- A lighthouse in the Pacific
- Papua New Guinea is a rich in culture, diversity, natural beauty and history. But it has the highest HIV prevalence in the Pacific. The latest data show that the epidemic may be leveling off, but the risk factors that contribute to HIV infection have not changed.
- HIV in cities of the 21st century: How the urban response to HIV can keep cities healthy
- At the end of the 18th century, a British economist named Thomas Malthus predicted that population growth would be an obstacle to human development, and would even lead to crisis.
- By Women, For Women
- Speech by: Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS. Date: 27 July 2010 Place: Kampala, Uganda Occasion: Organization of African First Ladies Against AIDS General Assembly
- Speech to opening of AIDS 2010 by Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS Executive Director
- Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS. Opening Session of XVIII International AIDS Conference, Vienna, Austria. 18 July 2010
- Delivering Results in Transformative Times
- Speech to the 26th Meeting of the Programme Coordinating Board. Conditions are in flux around the world and the context of AIDS is changing. The global economic crisis has not abated. Countries in the North and the South that were once financially secure have moved from relative abundance to forced austerity, dealing a direct blow to AIDS funding. Struggling economies are starkly exposed to the risk of ARV stockouts and the spectre of turning new patients away.