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Journées de l’ONU > Journées et Semaines annuelles
Ce document est disponible seulement en anglais. World AIDS Day UN Activities to Combat AIDS World AIDS Day has expanded into annual campaigns organized by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and its six co-sponsors: UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, UNESCO, WHO and the WORLD BANK. Each year a different theme has characterized the World Aids Campaign:
The theme for 2000 is AIDS: Men Make a Difference. Launched on March 6, 2000, UNAIDS stated that the new Campaign aims to involve men more fully in the effort against AIDS and to bring about a new, much-needed, concentration on men in national responses to the epidemic. During the launch, UNAIDS released a report in which it focused on common male behaviours that allow the epidemic to continue spreading. The UNAIDS report challenges harmful concepts of masculinity and contends that changing many commonly-held attitudes and behaviours, including the way adult men look on risk and sexuality and how boys are socialized to become men, must be part of the effort to curb the AIDS epidemic. HIV infections and AIDS deaths in men outnumber those in women on every continent except sub-Saharan Africa. Young men are more at risk than older ones: about one in four people with HIV are young men under the age of 25. At the same time that the UNAIDS report observes that without men the HIV/AIDS virus would have little chance to spread, it also recognizes the potential of men to make a difference. It observes that “As politicians, as front-line workers, as fathers, as sons, as brothers and friends, men have much to give.” The 21st Special Session of the UN General Assembly (ICPD+5) held in 1999 drew attention to the role of gender equality and equity as a key determinant of success in the struggle against AIDS. It was concluded that steps need to be urgently taken to enhance women’s ability and knowledge and to empower them to take informed actions. Men too must be encouraged to take responsibility for their own sexual and reproductive health and that of their partners. These deliberations provided input into the theme for the 2000 World Campaign. |
