UNAIDS: upholding human rights essential for ending AIDS

Sex workers from Buhera district of Zimbabwe, about 250km southeast of Harare, meet to discuss issues affecting their work in August 2024. Owing to the high stigma associated with the trade in rural areas, they meet in secluded places. Zimbabwe officials speaking at largest HIV/AIDS conference on the continent, the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) in December 2023 in Harare.

Ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1, the U.N. has released a report saying that upholding human rights is essential for ending the AIDS pandemic.