World AIDS Day 2007
The theme for World AIDS Day 2007 and 2008 is “leadership”.
Events to commemorate this year's World AIDS Day are being organized
all over the world. World AIDS Day—that takes place on December
1— focuses on leadership, the theme set by the World AIDS
Campaign under the five-year slogan “Stop AIDS, Keep the
Promise”. Leadership as a theme follows and builds on the
2006 theme of accountability. In 2006 a number of milestones were
reached where accountability was particularly crucial. It was
the year of the United Nations High Level Meeting on AIDS, which
reviewed the progress on the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on
HIV/AIDS – an important blueprint for reaching the Millennium
Development Goals on AIDS. 2006 marked the fifth year anniversary
of the African Abuja Declaration. 2006 was also the year in which
national targets were set, or should have been set, by governments
for achieving Universal Access to Treatment, Prevention, Support
and Care by 2010. In addition, at 2006’s International AIDS
Conference, “accountability” was the buzzword throughout
the global forum, reflecting the conference’s theme,“Time
to Deliver.”
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World AIDS Day 2006
The theme for World AIDS Day 2006 is accountability. The theme
of accountability was developed by the World AIDS Campaign support
team based on their ongoing work around World AIDS Day, and based
on the outcomes of the London HIV and AIDS Campaigning and Advocacy
meeting in February 2005. A number of lessons have been learnt
from previous work on World AIDS Day, and far more energy is being
invested early in the year to make World AIDS Day 2006 a success.
The most significant aspect of this World AIDS Day is the degree
to which it has been based around the inputs of a wide range of
civil society partners.
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AIDS Campaign website
UNAIDS/WHO annual AIDS Epidemic Update for 2006
The global AIDS epidemic continues to grow and there is concerning
evidence that some countries are seeing a resurgence in new HIV
infection rates which were previously stable or declining. However,
declines in infection rates are also being observed in some countries,
as well as positive trends in young people's sexual behaviours.
According to the latest figures published in the UNAIDS/WHO 2006
AIDS Epidemic Update, an estimated 39.5 million people are living
with HIV. There were 4.3 million new infections in 2006 with 2.8
million (65%) of these occurring in sub-Saharan Africa and important
increases in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where there are
some indications that infection rates have risen by more than
50% since 2004. In 2006, 2.9 million people died of AIDS-related
illnesses.
Chapter
on Sub saharan Africa (255KB PDF format  )
Sub-Saharan
Africa Fact Sheet (50.2KB PDF format )
Global
Facts and Figures (47.6KB PDF format )
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