On December 1st, the global community commemorates World AIDS Day, a day to remember the 40 million lives lost to AIDS. Young people across the world join the fight to end inequalities that prevent equal access to rights, services, healthcare, and treatment. This World AIDS Day we want to share a message with the world, and we ask the world to stand with young people. Follow the conversations with the hashtags: #WorldAIDSDay.
CAMPAIGN: Let us ALL unite to #EQUALIZE so we can move forward and #EndAIDS.
Statement by the United Nations Secretary-General on World Aids Day 2022; December 1st.
The world has promised to end AIDS by 2030.We are off track. To end AIDS, we must end the inequalities that are blocking progress. Today, we risk millions more new infections and millions more deaths. So, on this World AIDS Day, we are calling out in one voice. Equalize! The “Equalize” slogan is a call to action. A call to adopt the proven practical actions that will help end AIDS. More availability, quality and suitability of services for HIV treatment, testing and prevention. That means more financial resources. Better laws, policies and practices to tackle the stigma and exclusion faced by people living with HIV, especially marginalized populations. Everyone needs respect and to be welcomed. And better sharing of technology to enable equal access to the best HIV science, especially between the global South and North. The inequalities that perpetuate the AIDS pandemic can and must be overcome. We can end AIDS. If we Equalize.
The world has promised to end AIDS by 2030.We are off track. To end AIDS, we must end the inequalities that are blocking progress. Today, we risk millions more new infections and millions more deaths. So, on this World AIDS Day, we are calling out in one voice. Equalize! The “Equalize” slogan is a call to action. A call to adopt the proven practical actions that will help end AIDS. More availability, quality and suitability of services for HIV treatment, testing and prevention. That means more financial resources. Better laws, policies and practices to tackle the stigma and exclusion faced by people living with HIV, especially marginalized populations. Everyone needs respect and to be welcomed. And better sharing of technology to enable equal access to the best HIV science, especially between the global South and North. The inequalities that perpetuate the AIDS pandemic can and must be overcome. We can end AIDS. If we Equalize.
U.N. Secretary-General.
Statement by the UNAIDS Executive-Director Winnie Byanyima on World AIDS Day 2022.
World AIDS Day is a moment to honour over 40 million lives lost to AIDS, take stock of the AIDS response, and commit to ending AIDS. This week we launched a powerful new report, Dangerous Inequalities. In it, we called the world’s attention to a painful reality: currently, we are not on track to end AIDS by 2030, and the reason is inequality. But there is good news: by equalizing, we can end AIDS.
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