Global Commitments, Local Action. After 40 years of AIDS, charting a course to end the pandemic
Twenty years ago, the United Nations General Assembly set a common agenda that has propelled global efforts to reverse the course of the AIDS pandemic.
FOUR DECADES OF AIDS
Forty years have passed since doctors first detected a strange and deadly new disease destroying the immune systems of men in New York and California (1). Its cause, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), was soon isolated and traced back to simian viruses circulating in central Africa. Within a decade, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was killing millions around the world by exploiting societal fault lines and the indifference of many world leaders.
Author: UNAIDS
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Guidance for prosecutors on HIV-related criminal cases.
Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Ending Inequalities and Getting on Track to End AIDS by 2030
Supplement to the Report of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law “Risks, Rights & Health”
UNAIDS Strategy 2016-2021