United Nations Photo

UN Rights Office Launches Campaign to Fight HIV Discrimination

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 04:13:45 GMT

A large red ribbon is mounted on the façade of the UN Human Rights Office's Palais Wilson in Geneva, Switzerland, in a campaign to fight discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS. Every 30-Swiss-Franc donation illuminates one light towards efforts to fight discrimination.

Secretary-General Attends Reception for Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, Malaria

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 04:13:45 GMT

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (fourth from left) attends the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria’s reception and exhibit opening at UN Headquarters in his capacity as Chair of the Fund’s Replenishment Conference, held in New York 5 October. The reception introduced the travelling multimedia exhibit "Access to Life", a collaboration between Magnum Photos and the Global Fund. Accompanied by his wife, Yoo Soon-taek (fourth from right), Mr. Ban poses for a group photo with (from left): Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of The Global Fund; Richard Manning, the Fund’s Replenishment Vice-Chair; President of Mali Amadou Toumani Touré; Danielle Jackson, Project Manager for the exhibit; Mark Lubell, Managing Director of Magnum Photos; and Yolanda Cuomo, Curator of the exhibit.

Secretary-General Inspects Mosquito Net at Malawi Millennium Village

Sun, 30 May 2010 04:13:45 GMT

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) inspects a mosquito net, a key malaria preventer, at Mwandama Millennium Village, Malawi.

World AIDS Day: HIV/AIDS Patient in Hospital

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:13:45 GMT

HIV/AIDS patient lies in bed at the Bairo Pite clinic for comprehensive community health service.

Patient Rests in AIDS Hospice, Thailand

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:13:45 GMT

An AIDS patient lies in a specialized hospice in Lopburi, Thailand. In Thailand alone 33.4 million people are living with HIV/AIDS.

UN Peacekeepers in Medical Outreach Programme in Liberia

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:13:45 GMT

In an effort to relieve the country's acute problem of inadequate and inefficient medical facilities, Pakistani and Chinese United Nations military medical teams undertake 'medical outreach', in which the teams travel to rural areas to administer health care, in Kopo, Liberia.

Project Empowers HIV Positive Women in Honduras

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 04:13:45 GMT

An HIV positive child is given her medicine at the factory where her mother works. She and other workers make textiles for sale under the Genesis project, an HIV positive women's group helping to bring empowerment to the women in Puerto Cortez, Honduras.

Project Empowers HIV Positive Women in Honduras

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 04:13:45 GMT

Yonlanda Saldivar (right) at her office. She received training from a UNIFEM project and is now empowering other HIV-positive women through the group she founded, Genesis HIV.

An Evening of Remembrance and Hope: Uniting the World Against AIDS

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 04:13:45 GMT

The UN Secretary-General and internationally renowned performers and activists joined UNAIDS at United Nations Headquarters in New York to remember 25 years of AIDS.

Pictured are young performers of the African Children's Choir from Uganda and Kenya.

Special Event Marks Launch of 2006 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic

Tue, 30 May 2006 04:13:45 GMT

Participants join in forming this human red ribbon to fight HIV/AIDS to launch the 2006 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic at a special ceremony at UN Headquarters in New York.