World AIDS Day 2014
Indian social activists and children release ribbons and balloons during an event to mark World AIDS Day in Kolkata on December 1, 2014. According to the UN AIDS programme, India had the third-largest number of people living with HIV in the world at the end of 2013 and it accounts for more than half of all AIDS-related deaths in the Asia-Pacific region. In 2012, 140,000 people died in India because of AIDS. The Indian government has been providing free antiretroviral drugs for HIV treatment since 2004, but only 50 percent of those eligible for the treatment were getting it in 2012, according to a report by the World Health Organization. (DIBYANGSHU SARKAR / AFP/Getty Images)
Chicago Tribune
December 1, 2014 is World AIDS Day.
A Bangladeshi sex worker attends a rally on the occasion of the World Aids Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 01 December 2014. According to latest government figures, a total of 3,241 HIV-positive patients have been identified in Bangladesh since 1989, among who 1,299 became AIDS patients and 472 died while the UN estimates the number to be between even higher, between 8,000 and 16,000. (ABIR ABDULLAH / EPA)
Red balloons are released to mark World Aids Day at the Emilio Ribas Hospital in Sao Paulo December 1, 2014. (NACHO DOCE / Reuters Photo)
A Bangladeshi transexual attends a rally on the occasion of the World Aids Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 01 December 2014. According to latest government figures, a total of 3,241 HIV-positive patients have been identified in Bangladesh since 1989, among who 1,299 became AIDS patients and 472 died while the UN estimates the number to be between even higher, between 8,000 and 16,000. (ABIR ABDULLAH / EPA)
An oversized condom stands in the city center of Hanover, Germany, 01 December 2014. The German Foundation for World Population set up the 9-meter tall condom for World Aids Day. The action is meant to raise awareness about the lack of contraceptives in developing countries. (JULIAN STRATENSCHULTE / EPA)
Pakistani transgender activists from the Khawaja Sira Society take part of a rally to mark World AIDS Day in Lahore on December 1, 2014. (ARIF ALI / AFP/Getty Images)
Angela Groothuizen, Dutch ambassador for Stop AIDS Now, prepares to release red balloons representing women who have died of the disease on World AIDS Day at the Museumplein in Amsterdam on December 1, 2014. (KOEN VAN WEEL / AFP/Getty Images)
Indian school students pose for a photograph in the shape of a ribbon during an awareness campaign to mark World AIDS Day at a school in Amritsar on December 1, 2014. The UNAIDS agency says some 2.5 million Indians are living with HIV, many of them ostracised by their communities. (NARINDER NANU / AFP/Getty Images)
South African children from the Zip Zap circus school prepare backstage beneath an image of Nelson Mandela ahead of the World Aids Day concert in Khayelitsha, South Africa, 01 December 2014. South Africa has the world’s highest HIV/Aids infection rate with more than six million currently infected. The World AIDS Day concert targets the young people of Khayelitsha to raise awareness and work at breaking down the stigma associated with the illness. Many of the youth who are involved in the activities are affected by HIV/Aids themselves. (NIC BOTHMA / EPA)
An activist wears a red ribbon, the symbol of HIV/AIDS awareness, during an NGO’s campaign on the World AIDS Day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 1, 2014. (YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP/Getty Images)
Kenyan women carry placards during a march to create awareness about HIV and AIDS during World Aids day in the Dandora slums, Nairobi, Kenya, 01 December 2014. Kenyans living in the slum areas tend to be those most affected by the virus, with the United Nations estimating the number of people living with AIDS in Kenya at around 1.6 million. (DANIEL IRUNGU / EPA)
People take part in a rally marking world AIDS day, on November 30, 2014 in Paris. (MARTIN BUREAU / AFP/Getty Images)
Activists from a non-governmental organization (NGO) carry a giant red ribbon lit with oil lamps before releasing it in the waters of the river Ganges during an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign to mark World AIDS Day in Kolkata December 1, 2014. (RUPAK DE CHOWDHURI / Reuters Photo)
A group of women and children of ‘Maiti Nepal’, a Rehabilitation and Orphanage home for HIV-affected children and women who are victims of trafficking, attend a candle light prayer meeting on the eve of World AIDS Day in Kathmandu, Nepal, 30 November 2014. At least 52,000 people are HIV-positive in Nepal according to the latest WHO annual estimation. (NARENDRA SHRESTHA / EPA)
A nurse (L) hands out a red ribbon to a woman, to mark World Aids Day, at the entrance of Emilio Ribas Hospital, in Sao Paulo December 1, 2014. The world has finally reached “the beginning of the end” of the AIDS pandemic that has infected and killed millions in the past 30 years, according to a leading campaign group fighting HIV. United Nations data show that in 2013, 35 million people were living with HIV, 2.1 million people were newly infected with the virus and some 1.5 million people died of AIDS. By far the greatest part of the HIV/AIDS burden is in sub-Saharan Africa. (NACHO DOCE / REUTERS)
