World AIDS Day 2004

Women, Girls, HIV and AIDS

"Empowering women in this struggle must be our ‎strategy for the future.
It is among them that the real heroes of this war are to be found.
It is ‎our job to furnish them with hope. ‎"

Secretary-General Kofi Annan

The General Assembly, in 1988, expressed its deep concern about the pandemic proportions of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Noting that the World Health Organization (WHO) 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.

World AIDS Day 2004 focuses on women, girls, HIV and AIDS — the theme for the World AIDS Campaign 2004.