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NZAID supports World AIDS Day – 1 December
World AIDS Day brings people around the world together, giving them the chance to express global solidarity with people living with HIV. The aim is not only to continue raising awareness of HIV and AIDS issues, but also to urge governments and leaders to keep their promises of commitment and action to meeting the challenges presented by HIV and AIDS.
Observed on 1 December, the focus for World AIDS Day this year (and through to the end of 2008) is on leadership, which is set by the World AIDS Campaign under the five-year slogan “Stop AIDS, Keep the Promise”.
The campaign emphasises the political leadership needed to fulfil commitments that have been made in the response to AIDS – particularly the promise of universal access to treatment, prevention, care and support; while celebrating the leadership that already exists in all levels of society. NZAID is committed to working with partners to reverse and halt the HIV/AIDS epidemic. NZAID contributes around $18 million per year to partner government and Non-government Organisation programmes aimed at preventing and treating HIV primarily in the Pacific and Africa. NZAID also provides funding of around $6 million to UNAIDS and other UN agencies for HIV and AIDS work.
For more information contact christine.briasco@nzaid.govt.nz
or visit the UNAIDS website www.unaids.org/en/MediaCentre/PressMaterials/FeatureStory/20071113_gearingup_WAD_2007.asp
Page Last Reviewed: 30 November, 2007
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