UN - World AIDS Day December 1 2010 - HIV & AIDS Links

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<center> World AIDS Day
1 December
<hr noshade="noshade"></center> <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" cols="1"> <tbody><tr> <td>In 1988, the General Assembly expressed deep concern at the pandemic proportions of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Noting that the World Health Organization had declared 1 December 1988 World AIDS Day, the Assembly stressed the importance of observing that occasion (resolution 43/15). Today, over 41 million people are living with HIV/AIDS. To combat HIV/AIDS , malaria and other diseases is one of the Millennium Development Goals which all 191 United Nations Member States have pledged to meet by the year 2015.
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The World AIDS Campaign (WAC) has chosen as its theme from 2005 to 2010: ?Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise.?[/FONT]
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> [SIZE=+1]Links to UN and UN System sites:[/SIZE]
United Nations

• World AIDS Day
• [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Goal 6 ? Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases[/FONT]
• Africa 2015 for an AIDS-Free Generation
• General Assembly High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS (31 May - 2 June 2006)
• The UN works to stop HIV/AIDS
• Global Issues on the UN Agenda: HIV/AIDS
• Cyberschoolbus

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS - UNAIDS

• World AIDS Day
• World AIDS Campaign
• AIDS in Africa - Scenarios for the Future

World Health Organization

• HIV/AIDS Programme
• HIV infections
• HIV/AIDS at WHO
• World Health Report
• AIDS and STI - Pan American Health Organization

International Labour Organization

• ILO / AIDS

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

• HIV/AIDS
• Mandate entrusted to the Secretary-General on human rights and HIV/AIDS

United Nations Development Fund for Women

• Gender and HIV/AIDS

United Nations Development Programme

• HIV/AIDS

United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention

• HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse

United Nations Population Fund

• AIDS Clock
• Preventing HIV Infection

Unesco

• [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]HIV/AIDS[/FONT]
• World AIDS Campaign

UNICEF

• HIV/AIDS and Children
• Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS

World Bank Group

• HIV/AIDS
• AIDS Economics

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
The additional resources links on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not necessarily represent an endorsement by the United Nations.
AEGIS
AIDS Healthcare Foundation
AVERT
Family Health International
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
The HIV/AIDS Crisis: Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines
(Consumer Project on Technology)
HIV InSite Knowledge Base
HIVTools Research Group
International AIDS Conference -
(15th : Bangkok : 2004) ; (16th : Toronto : 2006)
International AIDS Economics Network (IAEN)
International AIDS Society
International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC)
International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO)
World AIDS Day