To launch a new national testing campaign UNAIDS Executive Director joined South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma, Minister Motsoaledi, Premier Mokonyane and civil society representatives Ms Vuyiseka Dubula from the Treatment Action Campaign and Nkululeko Nxesi from the National Association of People living with AIDS.

For decades it has been clear that globalization demands concerted and collective responses to manage increasing interdependence. Today we are at a tipping point. The financial crisis presents the most immediate reason to address human security in both a more collective manner and a more developmental manner. And there are longer-term problems that must also be addressed to improve security and development. One of the most pressing is climate change. Last year we witnessed the failure of global institutions to keep up with this specific challenge. But we face many more. We are here today to share ideas on how to better manage the collective commons by improving our concerted responses to security.

Speech by UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director for Management and External Relations on occasion of the Parliamentary Breakfast on the G8/G20 and AIDS

The role of the workplace in providing universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support

Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS. Opening Session of XVIII International AIDS Conference, Vienna, Austria. 18 July 2010

AIDS 2010

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

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.

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.

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