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Secretary-General Kofi Annan addressing the opening ceremony of the XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok (July 2004).
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Paul Ubi
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Two AIDS orphans on the grave of their parents inside their house near Gikongoro , Rwanda . Since the death of their parents, the children have had to take care of themselves.
Credit: Chris Sattlberger
Copyright: (UN Photo NICA #19896)
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A girl looks through the bars of a fence at "Hogar Amor y Vida" (Love and Life Home), a home for HIV-infected children in San Pedro Sula.
Credit: A. Waak
Copyright: (UN Photo NICA #19899 ) |
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This Tanzanian woman's husband recently died of AIDS, leaving her alone to take care of their five children. She has received some help from WAMATA, a local NGO assisting people with HIV/AIDS and their families. WAMATA is an acronym for the Kiswahili name "Walio Katika Mapambano na AIDS Tanzania" or "People in the Fight against AIDS in Tanzania ".
Credit: Louise Grubb
Copyright: (UN Photo NICA #19901) |
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On the Zambia-Tanzania Highway , the African Medical Foundation has set up peer education programmes with truckers. Shown is a sticker on this truck that reads: "Condoms prevent AIDS".
Credit: Louise Gubb
Copyright: (UN Photo NICA #19991) |
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In a Tanzanian hospital, a woman cares for her husband who has AIDS. AIDS puts a heavy demand on the health care systems of many countries. In some hospital so Central and East Africa , 40% or more of the beds are occupied by people with AIDS.
Credit: UN/WHO
Copyright: (UN Photo NICA# 19993 ) |
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A small group of street children in Maputo , Mozambique , inform pedestrians about the risks of unsafe sex and demonstrate the proper use of condoms to prevent HIV infection. This activity is organized by the Baixa Centre, created by Medecins du Monde.
Credit: Benno Neeleman
Copyright: (UN Photo NICA#19994 ) |
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Child patients at the Victor Babes Hospital in Bucharest, Romania, play on a swing set outside the hospital. Most of the children in this hospital were infected with HIV by their mothers during pregnancy. Their mothers were most likely infected by dirty needles used in hospitals.
Credit: Benno Neeleman
Copyright: (UN Photo NICA#19999) |
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Soldiers can be at major risk of acquiring and passing on HIV. This child soldier is shown with his family members in Luena, Angola.
Credit: Chris Sattlberger
Copyright: (UN Photo NICA#20000) |
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An elderly woman with her grandchildren in Kigali, Rwanda. The children, whose parents died of AIDS, are now cared for by their grandmother.
Credit: Chris Sattlberger
Copyright: (UN Photo NICA#20001 ) |
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Because there is no money for a coffin, the body of woman who has just died of AIDS has been wrapped in her blanket and placed in a carrier made by her family and friends who will escort her body to a nearby grave. Her husband, Joel, who infected her with HIV, was in Harare when she died. He died three months later.
Credit: Michel Szulc-Kryzanowski
Copyright: (UN Photo NICA#20002 ) |
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A sex worker stands in a doorway at Shipha House, a Brothel near the main bus terminal in the town of Phayao in Northern Thailand . The rate of HIV infection among commercial sex workers in Phayao is about 60%. To combat the epidemic, the Phayao Health Office regularly visits brothels such as this one to distribute condoms and explain safe sexual practices to the workers.
Credit: Shehzad Noorani
Copyright: (UN Photo NICA#22008) |
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The results of a rapid test for HIV/AIDS at Baragwanath Hospital 's maternity section in Soweto . In the samples shown, three positive tests appear chalky against the black test scale while a negative test is opaque.
Credit: Louise Gubb
Copyright: (UN Photo NICA#20009 ) |
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A girl from a nearby slum sells garlands outside the Hilton Hotel in Dhaka. Girls like this, because of their economic status, are particularly vulnerable to sexual exploitation and HIV infection.
Credit: Liba Taylor
Copyright: (UN Photo NICA# 20014 ) |
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Two women workers feed toddlers at Vienping Orphanage in Chiang Mai, where a large percentage of the children are HIV positive.
Copyright: (UN Photo NICA#20015) |
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Students participate in an HIV/AIDS awareness class at a secondary school in Phayao, northern Thailand. Adolescents like these students, are a major target group for HIV awareness activities of the Phayao Provincial Health Office.
Credit: Shehzad Noorani
Copyright: (UN Photo NICA#20016) |
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HIV/AIDS being tested in one of the labs at the Ministry of Health in Amman, Jordan.
Credit: G. Pirozzi
Copyright: (UN Photo NICA#20019) |
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In Amman, Jordan, one to one group meetings on AIDS prevention in a factory. A worker (right) meets a health worker from the Ministry of Health.
Credit: G. Pirozzi
Copyright: (UN Photo NICA# 20021) |
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Billboards on AIDS prevention produced by a local NGO called Positive Action based in Maseru.
Credit: G. Pirozzi
Copyright: (UN Photo NICA #20025) |
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United Nations Secretary-General visiting with a thirteen-year-old girl who is living with HIV, in Los Angeles ( United States ), in 2003.
Copyright: (UN Photo NICA #22046) |
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In the province of Gaza in Southern Mozambique, it has the highest HIV rate in the country of 19.4%. The Day Care Clinic of Zai-Zai opened its doors on 26 November 2002 and provides services to those seeking to improve quality of life of parents and children living with HIV/AIDS
Credit: Eskinder Debebe
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