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On 1 December, WHO (World Health Organisation) joins partners and communities to commemorate World AIDS Day 2024. Under the theme “Take the rights path: My health, my right!”, WHO is calling on global leaders and citizens to champion the right to health by addressing the inequalities that hinder progress in ending AIDS.
World AIDS Day is an opportunity to reflect on the progress made to date, raise awareness about the challenges that remain to achieve the goals of ending AIDS by 2030 and mobilize all stakeholders to jointly redouble efforts to ensure the success of the HIV response.
- In 2023, an estimated 39.9 million people were living with HIV globally
- Approximately 630 000 people died from HIV‑related causes in 2023
- An estimated 1.3 million people acquired HIV in 2023
Further information can be found here.
The Library collections contain print and online resources on the topic. Resources can be found by searching in the Library’s search tool, Discover. A selection of books on this topic are on display in the Library’s Reading Room as follows:
Abu-Raddad, Laith J, World Bank., and World Bank. Characterizing the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the Middle East and North Africa : Time for Strategic Action. Washington, D.C: World Bank, 2010. Print.
Barnett, Tony, and Alan Whiteside. AIDS in the Twenty-First Century : Disease and Globalization. 2nd ed. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; Palgrave Macmillian, 2006. Print.
Collins, Chris (Christopher John) et al. HIV/AIDS Policy in the United States : Monitoring the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS : A Series of Reports on HIV/AIDS Policy in Nicaragua, Senegal, Ukraine, the United States, Vietnam, and Zambia. New York, NY: Open Society Institute, 2006. Print.
Conroy, Anne C. Poverty, AIDS, and Hunger : Breaking the Poverty Trap in Malawi. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Print.
Crawford, Dorothy H. Virus Hunt : The Search for the Origin of HIV. 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Print.
Gostin, Lawrence O. The AIDS Pandemic : Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Print.
Hacker, Marcus, International Monetary Fund., and International Monetary Fund. The Macroeconomics of HIV/AIDS. Ed. by Marcus Hacker. Washington, DC: Interational Monetary Fund, 2004. Print.
Hunter, Mark. Love in the Time of AIDS : Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. Print.
Niehof, Anke, Gabriel Rugalema, and Stuart (Stuart R.) Gillespie. AIDS and Rural Livelihoods : Dynamics and Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa. London ; Earthscan, 2010. Print.
Nunn, Amy. The Politics and History of AIDS Treatment in Brazil. New York: Springer, 2009. Print.
Pepin, Jacques. The Origins of AIDS. Cambridge, UK ; Cambridge University Press, 2011. Print.
Raghunath, D et al. “HIV/AIDS Research Issues.” Ed. by D Raghunath. New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill, 2007. Print.
Weait, Matthew. Intimacy and Responsibility : The Criminalisation of HIV Transmission. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Cavendish – Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2007. Print.
