Advocate for policies that ensure everyone has access to HIV prevention, treatment, and care - share your support on social media using # #WorldAIDSDay2024;
Learn about the inequalities driving the AIDS epidemic and educate others;
Support local health initiatives working to end AIDS;
Join global and local campaigns demanding health as a fundamental right.
Health workers
Advocate for access to essential HIV services;
Incorporate HIV into routine health interventions;
Deliver care that is kind, respectful of human rights and without stigma.
Ministries of Health, National AIDS Commissions and other public health leaders
Allocate sufficient resources improve the quality of HIV services and make them more resilient and sustainable;
Focus efforts to reach populations that are vulnerable or that are key to the HIV response, including, children, men who have sex with men, transgender people, people who use drugs, sex workers, and prisoners;
Empower communities to combat stigma and discrimination.
Support and empower frontline health workers (nurses, midwives and community health workers) to deliver high-quality HIV services, while recognizing their critical contributions in providing HIV services;
Ensure appropriate and safe working environment to improve the safety of working conditions in health care settings.
Civil society
Help to reach vulnerable, stigmatized and other difficult-to-reach populations;
Speak out against stigma and discrimination;
Help young people take leadership in the AIDS response.
Community leaders
Ensure essential HIV services are maintained in the community;
Reach out to key and vulnerable populations and assist them to access HIV services when needed;
Ensure that adolescents, youth at risk, pregnant women and infants receive adequate care that incorporates HIV;
Combat stigma and discrimination to ensure that everyone feels safe to access HIV services;
Support health workers to provide HIV services to everyone in the community.
HIV program managers
Focus on key and vulnerable populations for delivery of HIV services.
Support and empower health workers to deliver high quality HIV services to everyone who needs them;
Ensure adequate training in HIV services for health workers.
