"AIDS PREVENTION"

Press Conference by Ninan Varughese, Director, a.i. of the UNAIDS New York Office, on the launch of UNAIDS World AIDS Day report entitled “Prevailing against pandemics by putting people at the centre”.

Briefing by Brenden Varma, Spokesperson for the President of the 75th Session of the General Assembly

In a new report, UNAIDS called on countries to “make far greater investments in global pandemic responses and adopt a new set of bold, ambitious but achievable HIV targets. If those targets are met, the world will be back on track to ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.” UNIFEED

UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngucka, UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima, UNFPA Executive Director Natalia Kanem, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore, and UNESCO Assistant-Director General Stefania Giannini brief reporters on the Education Plus Initiative: Empowerment of Adolescent Girls and Young Women in sub-Saharan Africa.

Briefing by Ninan Varughese, Director a.i. of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) New York Office, on the launch of the World AIDS Day report.

Community groups deliver HIV medicine in a remote area in the conflict-torn Central African Republic (CAR). UNAIDS

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Briefing by Gunilla Carlsson, UNAIDS Executive Director a.i., on the UNAIDS Global AIDS Update and the report on Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS.

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Press Briefing by Edwin Cameron, Judge on Constitutional Court of South Africa. Subjects were stigma, discrimination and decriminalization and its link to SDG 16.