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Portrait of Joanita ( 4yrs) outside her home in Mbarara, Western Uganda. Joanita was born with HIV and needs to take medication on a daily basis. “I like eating rice and Irish potatoes.

Faces and stories

Beyond the statistics: Stories of women, children, adolescents and communities affected by HIV

Kabiite Ajara (32 yrs) helps Nuriet (2 yrs 8 months) take her pediatric HIV medication in their home. Nuriet and Kabiite are both living with HIV and need to take their medication on a daily basis.

HIV and AIDS

UNICEF is working towards an AIDS-free generation

A mother holding her smiling baby next to her face

Global annual results reports 2019: Goal Area 1

Progress and results from 2019 by Goal Area 1: ensuring that every child has the right to life, survival and development, and to grow up healthy and strong

A woman dressed in blue smiles with a young baby sitting on her lap

Global annual results report 2019: Humanitarian action

The key humanitarian results achieved for children by UNICEF and partners in 2019

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Treating HIV-positive children with speed and skill

How innovations in rapid testing and child-friendly medicines are saving lives in Uganda.

The government of Uganda have implemented a number of interventions for children exposed to HIV including point of care for early infant diagnosis of HIV and oral pellets for children living with HIV.Kansiime Ruth (25 years) ensures that both her children Lighton (1 year) and Joanita ( 4yrs) receive their pediatric HIV medicine at the same time every day. Lighton is now taking the oral pellets in place of the bitter syrup. This has helped alot in terms of getting her to take her medication and suppress her

Over 300 children and adolescents die every day from AIDS-related causes

Only half of children living with HIV have access to life-saving treatment – UNICEF

UNICEF results: a group of smiling children in Guatemala

For every child, results

UNICEF works for the rights of every child, every day, across the globe. Discover our results

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Finding life after loss

After losing her husband to an AIDS-related illness, a mother in Cameroon is determined to keep her children healthy and HIV-negative.

Message from UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore on World AIDS Day

On 12 June 2018 in Jamaica, EVE for Life mentor Monique McDonald, 27, speaks with (left) Shelly, 22, and (right) Stacy-Ann Stone, 38, in a public park in Ocho Rios town.

Around 80 adolescents will die of AIDS every day by 2030, at current trends – UNICEF

UNICEF calls for urgent scale-up of treatment and prevention programmes among adolescents as data shows slow reduction of HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths