World AIDS Day 2021
On 1 December the global community commemorates World AIDS Day, remembering the estimated 36.3 million people who have lost their life to the disease while raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic which continues to affect the estimated 37.7 million people living with HIV/AIDS across the world.
UNODC is committed to ending AIDS as a global pandemic by 2030 through supporting evidence-informed, human-rights based interventions and HIV prevention, treatment and care for people who use drugs and people in prisons and other closed settings. This commitment has been reinforced this year by the adoption of both the new UNODC Strategy 2021-2025 and the new UNAIDS Global AIDS Strategy 2021-2026. The UNODC Strategy, in the context of addressing the ongoing AIDS pandemic, seeks to strengthen access to prevention, treatment, and care among UNODC’s mandated key populations of people who use drugs and people in prisons and other closed settings, while the Global AIDS Strategy emphasizes the importance of ending inequalities and centering people and communities as crucial factors that will be decisive in the effort to end AIDS.
World AIDS Day 2021. End Inequalities. End AIDS.