World AIDS Day

  United Towards ending AIDS. * Countries in the Middle East and North Africa were engaged through UNAIDS offices in eastern and southern Africa and in western and central Africa.  ** Approximately 93 country governments and 360 civil society organizations were consulted during this period. Consultations continued subsequently.

Communities are the driving force of the HIV response . People living with HIV and those most affected, including key populations bring the insight, courage, and innovation needed to overcome today’s challenges. When these communities join forces with health workers, policymakers, and partners, new pathways to success emerge, built on trust, equity and shared purpose .

Essential topics  > Transmission of HIV  > Prevention of HIV: practicing safer sex, including condom use  > Treatment of HIV  Desirable topics  > HIV-related stigma and discrimination  > Sources of counselling and testing services; seeking counselling, treatment, care and support  > Other HIV and AIDS-related specific content Source: Measuring the education sector response to HIV and AIDS—guidelines for the construction and use of core indicators. Paris: UNESCO; 2013.  UNESCO has developed a set of “essential” and “desirable” topics of a life skills-based HIV and sexuality education programme. The essential topics are those that have the greatest direct impact on HIV prevention, while desirable topics are those that have an indirect impact on HIV prevention but are important as part of an overall sexuality education programme

 Young people are people aged 15–24 years (as per the Global AIDS Response Progress Reporting System indicators). Source: Global AIDS response progress reporting , 2015. (accessed 25 September 2015).  WHO identifies adolescence as the period in human growth and development that occurs after childhood and before adulthood, from ages 10 to 19 years. Source: Adolescent development: a critical transition. In WHO ( accessed 25 September 2015)