World AIDS Day 2011: A Year in the Global Pandemic

Images chronicling advances and struggles in the AIDS fight.

World AIDS Day U.N. Report: AIDS-Related Deaths Down 21 Percent - Ahead of this year’s World Aids Day on Dec. 1, UNAIDS released a report showing that, worldwide, deaths from AIDS are at their lowest level since 2005, with a 21 percent drop overall.According to the report, there were an estimated 34 million people living with HIV in 2010; since 2005, AIDS-related deaths have decreased from 2.2 million to 1.8 million.(Photo: Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)
U.N. Chief Ban Calls for End of AIDS by 2020 - Earlier this year, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for global action to end the AIDS epidemic by 2020."That is our goal — zero new infections, zero stigma and zero Aids-related deaths," Mr. Ban said at a UN summit on AIDS in New York last June.(Photo: Ragnar Singsaas/Getty Images)
AIDS Turns 30 - 2011 marked the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the HIV virus. Literally unknown to researchers and medical professionals (and identified in only five patients at the time), the disease was first identified in 1981 and was called pneumocystis pneumonia.(Photo: REUTERS/Jason Redmond)Pope Calls AIDS an “Ethical Problem” - On a visit to Benin, Pope Benedict XVI called AIDS an "ethical problem" that needs a medical solution, backtracking from an earlier position blaming the use of condoms for the disease’s grip on Africa."The problem of AIDS in particular clearly calls for a medical and a pharmaceutical response," said a 135-page document released as the Pope’s vision for Africa. "This is not enough however. The problem goes deeper. Above all, it is an ethical problem."(Photo: REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi)

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World AIDS Day U.N. Report: AIDS-Related Deaths Down 21 Percent - Ahead of this year’s World Aids Day on Dec. 1, UNAIDS released a report showing that, worldwide, deaths from AIDS are at their lowest level since 2005, with a 21 percent drop overall.According to the report, there were an estimated 34 million people living with HIV in 2010; since 2005, AIDS-related deaths have decreased from 2.2 million to 1.8 million.(Photo: Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

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