- 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 Speeches
- Speech by UNAIDS Executive Director in Burkina Faso on the occasion of the Third Pan-African Youth Leadership Summit
- Ladies and gentlemen, dear participants: This Pan-African Youth Summit is extremely timely. It is being held at a critical period in the evolution of our societies, when the world starts to collectively reflect on the Post-2012 development agenda.
- "Unprecedented progress, but AIDS is not over: Maintaining commitment for the next 1000 days and opportunities for the Post-2015 era." UNAIDS Executive Director’s speech to the 31st Programme Coordinating Board
- Dear friends, we are seeing sustained progress. We are quickening the pace of action. But we must make no mistake—this epidemic is not over.
- UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director's speech at the Annual HIV Conference of Poland in Warsaw
- The AIDS response can be a catalyst for broader health, human rights and development outcomes, and an engine for social change – towards more inclusive societies that take responsibility for investing in the well-being and dignity of all their people. We look forward to continuing to partner with you to reach the goal of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS related deaths in this region.
- UNAIDS Executive Director’s speech to launch US Blueprint for an AIDS-free generation
- The PEPFAR Blueprint for an AIDS-free generation is not just another plan. It is a clear, practical way to move the world towards the goals adopted at the UN High Level Meeting on AIDS.
- UNAIDS Executive Director’s delivery of the 2012 Lancet Lecture
- Today, the dialogue on AIDS has shifted from applauding incremental scale-up to expressing a true belief that we will end this epidemic. But we have reached a moment of truth. We need to understand and integrate the magnitude of the changes that are happening into a new narrative for global health.
- Opening remarks by UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé on the occasion of the African Union High-Level Side Event on Shared Responsibility and Global Solidarity for AIDS
- Mr President, as Chairperson of the African Union, you have made it a priority for Africa to lead and own its own AIDS response. Under your leadership, the African Union adopted its new roadmap for AIDS, TB and malaria this July.
- UNAIDS Executive Director’s opening address at the XIX International AIDS Conference, 22 July 2012, Washington, D.C.
- Our Journey to Zero: A New Era to Leverage Opportunities and Share Responsibility
- "Crossing the final frontiers on the road to zero", UNAIDS Executive Director’s speech, Wilton Park
- There will be unforeseen obstacles, but it is very clear that we have started on the road to zero and have taken the first major strides in that direction.
- UNAIDS Executive Director’s speech at the 6th Francophone conference on AIDS (in French)
- Aujourd’hui je voudrais vous dire que la Francophonie ne constitue pas seulement un outil linguistique; la Francophonie constitue également un espace politique construit autour de valeurs communes avec un sens aigu de la solidarité.
- "Getting to zero demands compassion": UNAIDS Executive Director’s speech to joint stakeholders and President Nailitikau of Fiji
- It is so critical that people are not excluded from our response because of their HIV status, their social status or their sexual orientation. If we want to be inclusive, if we want to have a society that is able to transform itself, we must be capable of having compassion and tolerance. That is what the President has shown, and that is why I am here.
- "Getting to zero is a journey to social justice": UNAIDS Executive Director’s speech to New Zealand MFAT Town Hall
- UNAIDS’ vision of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths is not about “absolute zero.” It is a journey that leads us to social justice and to greater distribution of opportunity for people who are not lucky.
- Statement to the Fifty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women
- This statement is on behalf of the Secretariat and all cosponsors of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) – ILO, UNDP, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNODC, WFP, WHO and the World Bank, as well as UN-Women. We appreciate the opportunity to address the linkages between HIV and gender equality as they relate to the themes under consideration during the 56th session of the Commission.
- UNAIDS Executive Director’s speech to the High Level Policy Consultation on the Criminalization of HIV Nondisclosure, Exposure and Transmission, Oslo, Norway
- Almost 30 years after the first cases of AIDS, the law is still being used to criminalize the transmission of HIV. The full impact of these laws is not well documented or understood, but we understand too well how they further marginalize people living with HIV: They fuel stigma. They damage efforts to prevent, treat and care for HIV. They remove incentives for people to get tested. And they undermine public trust in health care providers.
- "AIDS Dependency Crisis: Sourcing African Solutions": UNAIDS Executive Director’s speech to NEPAD Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee
- National leaders have made progress on AIDS a defining legacy of their commitment to their own people. But Africa is too dependent on external resources, especially for the AIDS response. It is time for African leaders to come together to define a transformed development paradigm that will deliver a new, socially sustainable agenda that is written and owned by Africa.
